Tag: Mindfulness
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Joyful Learning After Tech Glitches and Nature’s Reset

Tech glitches FRUSTRATION Change math plans Walk outside Sun, sky, warmth Relieves angst Back to class learning starts joyfully. This is the tale of my day at school so far. I was in a kindergarten class co-teaching a math lesson. The students were going to be using their ipads for the first time. They were…
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Harvesting Summer’s Bounty

Gathering in summer’s bounty one last weekend harvesting… the blue sky, sunshiny beach day, warm grains of sand forming to the shape of my foot, rhythmic wash of waves dispersing over the shore, relaxed mind reading while reclined in my beach chair, a quiet ohhh with my first steps into the cool water, wading farther…
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Concert Didn’t Go as Planned-Day 9 SOLSC

“Stay with me, My love I hope you’ll always be” singing the words along with the song BUT sitting on a couch out in the mezzanine area. Not how I expected to experience this Phil Collins/Genesis Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra concert. I started the concert in row H sitting next to my husband. The first song…
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All that a Tree Offered Me

Nestling between two large tree roots, I lean into the supportive trunk as sunlight dances through the leaves illuminating my closed eyelids with passes of lightness. My heart rate slows to match the living pulse of the tree as its energy transmits to my soul relaxing, releasing and replenishing me. Being wrapped in the coziness…
