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our class spent time this week talking about gratitude
and the importance of offering thank you’s to people we are grateful for.
the kinder drew pictures and dictated thank you notes for their families.
i had the honor of writing out the words above
for a child’s thank you that he wanted to give to his family.
it was one of simplest, most powerful, and beautiful thank you’s i’ve yet to see.
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“mankind’s greatest achievements are found on thank you notes, not resumes.”
-wes fesler, american athlete, coach, and author
the university musical society
knew all the right words to get me ramped up about the season.
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“music is the shorthand of emotion.”
– leo tolstoy
“the greatest gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
-meryl streep
kindness in all things, today, and every day.
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image credit: bbc
this is what happened when a swedish library accidentally left a door open
The Gothenburg City Library in Sweden was supposed to be closed last Saturday, but staffers accidentally left a door unlocked. One might imagine that could lead to thievery or destruction, but what actually happened was quite the opposite: Residents simply used the library as usual.
The city said nearly 450 people visited the library that day and 246 books were borrowed. “Nothing was destroyed. It’s absolutely fantastic that you as a Gothenburger come into an empty library and treat it so lovingly,” operations manager Anna Carin Elf told radio station P4 Gothenburg, per the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
Arvid Jadenius was among the visitors, alongside his wife and 2-year-old son, and didn’t know anything was amiss until he saw the news on social media.
“It felt good that everyone behaved exactly as usual, they borrowed books, read the newspaper, and so on,” he said in an interview with Göteborgs-Posten, adding, “The citizens of Gothenburg take care of their library. There is obviously a desire to be there.”
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source credits: P4 Gothenberg radio, Dagens Nyheter
“in war, there are no unwounded soldiers.”
-jose narosky
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art credit: jenni gray, art candy www.etsy.com/shop/artcandyaustralia .
beginning our parent teacher conferences
ready to share stories, laugh, chat with families,
at some point
voices grew crackly,
coffee and lots of water became important
leaving at the end, very quietly walking to our cars.
happy families and most of our voices left behind.
what exactly happened?
i’m quite sure that it all started out quite fun.
if only whistles could talk.
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“every time you blow the whistle, half the people are going to be mad at you.”
-ken cuccinelli
Life finds a way : when nature reclaims space. -BBC Science
WELCOME NOVEMBER…
There is something about November that says ‘keep going’.
We are not quite through the year, yet the finish-line looms.
We are plunged into darkness by Mother Nature.
We are faced with the ‘season of joy’,
and yet many of us wonder where we will find it.
And I think November is a great time to take a little peek behind you,
and see just how much you’ve done.
To take stock of your achievements, your endurance,
your survival.
To rest, reinforce, before the festivities envelope us all.
Before beautiful new beginnings.
And most importantly, November is a time to seek out light.
As the natural order darkens, we must find it ourselves.
We must do whatever we can to brighten our day,
our home, the world.
Seek out light wherever you can my friends,
and pay no heed to those who condemn your sparkle.
You are much-needed.
Keep showing up, in that special way only you can do.
And show up for yourself too
(which can sometimes mean not showing up at all).
This year has been hard.
Again.
But beautiful.
Again.
As is the way of life.
As is the way of life.
-Donna Ashworth
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art credit: arthur rackham, british children’s literature illustrator, fall fairies from peter pan, 1906
I didn't have my glasses on.... 