Category: resilience
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Life’s Curveballs: Lessons from a Retired Army First Sergeant
A teacher at my school is a retired U.S. Army First Sergeant (1SG), which is one of the highest enlisted ranks. As you would expect, to make 1SG takes considerable leadership ability. Consequently, I like to glean administrative wisdom from this person whenever I can. During a break at one of our back-to-school meetings, I…
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The Story Behind the Oklahoma City Memorial Tree
My blogger buddy, Rainer Bantau tagged me “it” again in a recent post about his visit to the Oklahoma City Memorial. Our back-and-forth collaborative project started with a meet up in early October–when he was in OKC for a conference. Over lunch, we both hatched a plan to pick a theme and continue the conversation–from…
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Rogue Waves
For centuries, they were merely examples of maritime myth—like Giant Squids and mermaids. Freakishly large waves forming at random on the open ocean? Respected scientists, back in the day, said “Nah, it’s not possible.” Yet modern science proved otherwise. We now know that individual waves over 60 feet tall, and some as high as…
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Weariness
Have you ever said to yourself, “There’s more here than I can possibly do?” Things came to that point last week when I realized I’d exhausted my ability to help and encourage others. It felt like everyone wanted a piece of me, but I had nothing left to give. Jesus and his disciples experienced this.…
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Anxiety + Resiliency = “Anxiliency”
“You help someone by telling them your story,” says my blogger friend Mitch Teemley. Okay, that’s not a direct quote, but it sums up his purpose in story telling–I think. Since I linked back to his site, maybe he’ll chime in.🤞 My story goes like this: at times I’ve been like a leafless tree, watching…
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Kazoo Snafu
Yesterday was the day: I finally felt brave enough to pass out kazoos to my kindergarten music students. “We’ve been in school for almost six months,” I reassured myself. “Surely, they’re ready.” First, a thorough demonstration was in order. I took out a kazoo and showed the children what happens when you simply blow into…
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