You Bring Me Knowledge And Joy
Your smile alone and your laughter bring me joy.
Lessons and Notes from past classes, books, or life.
a. Read new literature
b. Go where you are celebrated not tolerated
c. Learn to say no
d. Change the view
e. You can do it if you focus
Events
Tour of San Pasqual Academy – The first-in-the-nation residential education campus designed specifically for foster teens. The Academy is located in Escondido, CA and provides foster teens with a stable, caring home, a quality, individualized education, and the skills needed for independent living. The Academy opened in October 2001 and currently has a bed capacity for 184 youth. The 238-acre campus features individual family-style homes, an on-site, accredited high school, and a computer for each youth in the homes, a cafeteria, a technology and career information center, an assembly hall, recreation fields, and a swimming pool. Teens live and learn at the Academy as they prepare for college and/or a career path.
http://www.sanpasqualacademy.org/how_you_can_help.htm
When you can, check them out and see if you would like to help to make a difference.
Quotes, Poetry, and/or Things I know For Sure
. Poem: THE INVITATION
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon/
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened to life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and can let ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true.
I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself: if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.
I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty even when it’s not a pretty day, and if you can source your life from God’s presence.
I want to know it you can live with failure, yours and mine and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the moon, “YES!”
I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.
It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you’ve studied.
I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in empty moments.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Indian Elder, May 1994
Suggestions/ Fun Ideas
2. Carol’s Daughters- Love Butter
3. In time of healing, sorrow or hard times give the gift of laughter- A basket full of comedy movies. Tailor the gift to meet the individual - it could be stand up or comedy movies.
Parenting
Parenting-Tools To Help/Children-Making A Difference
1. Book- Boundaries For Kids by John Townsend
2. Our future leaders-Neha Gupta, age 13, Founder of Empower Orphans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ugtHgNHAYE&feature=related
Thank you for taking the time to read my blog. I want to say thank you clients, friends, and family for adding to my life in the ways that you continue to do.
I want to say a special thanks to my children for playing with me, helping me with chores, striving to do your best at home and at school, and a special thanks to:
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