I was thinking about Robert Frost’s poem, A Road Less Traveled, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood — And sorry I could not travel both — And be one traveler, long I stood — And looked down one as far as I could — To where it bent in the undergrowth . . .And [...]
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Imagine you lived inside a single room for the past ten years. Imagine that all of your needs were accommodated. Imagine that you never glimpsed a single day outside this room during these ten years. A stranger knocks on the door, you invite the stranger into your room. The stranger suggests you change your room [...]
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Memorial Day weekend in the U.S. A holiday with a deeper symbolic significance. Difference makers remember and re-member. They remember the symbolic significance of the holiday and re-member the symbolic significance by facilitating others toreconnect with their cultural roots. Each of us has a beginning, a place where we are rooted. A place of soil [...]
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What is more difficult: responding to aggression with more aggression, or responding to aggression with purpose, resolve and non-aggression?
If history is an answer and we assume that the easiest path is always the most trodden, it is to respond to aggression with more aggression. It is to eliminate a threat with swift and sure force. [...]
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I saw a question on an Internet site that asked, “What would you do if you had a million dollars?” That kind of question challenges me to identify my values. I wonder if I’ll stop, look, and listen to the suffering that abounds in our global society, or if I’ll cocoon and insulate myself? What [...]
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According to FamilyDoctor.org, “People with good emotional health are aware of their thoughts, feelings and behaviors. They have learned healthy ways to cope with the stress and problems that are a normal part of life. They feel good about themselves and have healthy relationships.”
Difference makers do the inner-work before trying to work on others. They [...]
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Did you know that buried land mines kill more than 15,000 people each year on our planet? Some estimate that centuries will pass before these buried land minds are cleared. Some difference makers from U.S. universities are training honey bees to locate buried land mines through odor detection. These scientists are thinking differently about a [...]
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US Dept of Ed What's New National Council of Teachers of Math News