Reason for Excitement shares a visit from a swarm of honey bees! It ties into pollinator benefits as well as help for grieving parents.
Category Archives: the arts
Problem Solving Play Examples
Problem Solving Play Examples shares critical reasons for free play as well as outlining benefits of play for all ages.
What Makes a Teacher Great?
My musings from a 30 year teaching career inform my opinion on what is significant to be a successful educator.
Brain Filters
Brain Filters focuses on the brain ignoring irrelevant information as well as how to zero in on what we want and need, even easing grief.
Transforming Grief
Transforming Grief borrows from yard work as well as the writing process to find ways to assist the grief process.
How to Get Virtuous Grief
How to Get Virtuous Grief explores the concept of patience along with ways to cultivate this virtue while experiencing the grieving process.
Miss You Mom on My Birthday
Miss You Mom on My Birthday tells the touching story of Mom (post stroke) calling me on one of my last birthdays & the amazing thing she did.
Opposites in the Arts
Opposites in the Arts explores the polarity of contrast in regards to healing grief. Quotes from notables illustrate this profound concept.
Power of Poetry!
Power of Poetry shows purpose in writing/reading poetry to ease grief. Poems of grief, hope, & beauty can provide direction and healing.
Invitation to Creativity
Invitation to Creativity focuses upon two situations which invited creativity in order to solve a problem. Suggestions for your creativity!