This season is full of extreme and often contrasting, emotions. There are moments that are so tranquil, followed by sheer chaos. There are times when I feel so abundant and then experience a fear of …
Perspective: Who’s to Say How to Write an "A"?
My youngest child came home from her first day in an Italian Public School and said, “My teacher said this is how to write an A, but I thought it was supposed to look like this A.” “What do you …
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Be Patient When Words Fail You
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the …
Shifting Perceptions And How People Represent Systems
Several years ago, I remember standing in the line at Starbucks at 6:00 AM, with my suitcase full of papers to grade, listening to a man in line complain about the quality of our public schools. I …
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The World Does Not Revolve Around You
For more than a year we have traversed Europe but this week, gazing up at a statue of Galileo Galilei outside the Uffizi in Florence, Italy, many images blazed through my mind. I saw the violet …
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Where Are You Headed?
One year ago, this week, we found ourselves wandering the cobbled streets in Cortona, Italy without a plan. We arrived there without knowing where we were headed and we stayed there until we figured …
