I'm going to be lazy with this post. Rather than explain the positive and negative dominance loop in psychology, I'll simply say that one of the very important lessons I learned was that I really need to manage my time better.
I had to color a world map and label as many countries and oceans/seas as I could. I was thinking that it would only take a couple of hours. I started Friday afternoon and finished around noon on Saturday. It took me a good solid 7 hours to complete it. On the more positive side, the map looks really nice. I'm going to have a color copy made and have it laminated.
Hugs everybody!
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Lesson for Thursday 01/27/11 - Comma fun and cannibalism
Thursday's lesson had a lot to do with where to put a comma. We started off with a sentence:
"Having eaten, the strong young cub scouts scattered everywhere."
In this sentence we see that the cub scouts have had a good meal and went their various ways to have fun.
So let us move the comma.
"Having eaten the strong, young cub scouts scattered everywhere."
Now we see that the youngest cub scouts have organized themselves and as they were starving decided to take down the older cub scouts and eat them. Then they all ran off to have fun and play.
Let's move that comma again.
"Having eaten the strong young, cub scouts scattered everywhere."
Now we see the older cub scouts weren't waiting around to be killed, and instead sought out the young strong cub scouts and devoured them before running off to kayak.
This is too much fun, let's move that comma one more time.
"Having eaten the strong young cub, scouts scattered everywhere."
Now we see that the cub scouts have now murdered a young bear and eaten it. They then scatter off to do their fun cub scout things.
So where you put the comma in a sentence can say so very much about what you are trying to convey.
"Having eaten, the strong young cub scouts scattered everywhere."
In this sentence we see that the cub scouts have had a good meal and went their various ways to have fun.
So let us move the comma.
"Having eaten the strong, young cub scouts scattered everywhere."
Now we see that the youngest cub scouts have organized themselves and as they were starving decided to take down the older cub scouts and eat them. Then they all ran off to have fun and play.
Let's move that comma again.
"Having eaten the strong young, cub scouts scattered everywhere."
Now we see the older cub scouts weren't waiting around to be killed, and instead sought out the young strong cub scouts and devoured them before running off to kayak.
This is too much fun, let's move that comma one more time.
"Having eaten the strong young cub, scouts scattered everywhere."
Now we see that the cub scouts have now murdered a young bear and eaten it. They then scatter off to do their fun cub scout things.
So where you put the comma in a sentence can say so very much about what you are trying to convey.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Lesson for 01/26/11 - Park University may be a good transfer school
So yesterday we had a visit from Park University. I like the fact that they have specific requirements for admission, and that they are close to home.
Park University requires dual specialization for Education graduates. The two areas I'd become certified in are English and Social Sciences. That way I can teach History, which I defintiely want to do, but also writing courses, which I think would be great.
One of the things I wanted to do before I transfer anywhere is talk to the professors that I would be learning from. Park insists on this, and they sent 3 chairpersons in the education department, and their main admissions person to introduce the school and their information. I was duly impressed.
One thing they did say is that I'm doing the right thing going for the Associates in Education rather than going the certificate route. It opens a lot more options, and is really necessary if I'm to achieve my ultimate goal.
I still have plenty of time to decide where to go as it will likely take me the Summer plus all of the 2011/2012 school year to finish. The nice thing is that they have several levels of scholarships from which to choose. If I graduate with a 3.9 gpa and have 60 hours complete, I could get a free ride for 2.5 years at Park. The step down from that would be a 3.75 gpa and 45 hours for 75% tuition over 3 years. After this semester I should have a 3.9, but even if I run into trouble I could easily achieve the latter of those two options. Either way it all sounds very nice.
We'll see what the UMKC pitch is like, but so far, I'm very impressed with Park.
Park University requires dual specialization for Education graduates. The two areas I'd become certified in are English and Social Sciences. That way I can teach History, which I defintiely want to do, but also writing courses, which I think would be great.
One of the things I wanted to do before I transfer anywhere is talk to the professors that I would be learning from. Park insists on this, and they sent 3 chairpersons in the education department, and their main admissions person to introduce the school and their information. I was duly impressed.
One thing they did say is that I'm doing the right thing going for the Associates in Education rather than going the certificate route. It opens a lot more options, and is really necessary if I'm to achieve my ultimate goal.
I still have plenty of time to decide where to go as it will likely take me the Summer plus all of the 2011/2012 school year to finish. The nice thing is that they have several levels of scholarships from which to choose. If I graduate with a 3.9 gpa and have 60 hours complete, I could get a free ride for 2.5 years at Park. The step down from that would be a 3.75 gpa and 45 hours for 75% tuition over 3 years. After this semester I should have a 3.9, but even if I run into trouble I could easily achieve the latter of those two options. Either way it all sounds very nice.
We'll see what the UMKC pitch is like, but so far, I'm very impressed with Park.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Where does the freaking go in Hi-freaking-larious?
So today I learned where the 'freaking' goes in every word in the english language. I can pick a word, you put the freaking into the word, and then I can guess without fail, where you put the freaking, as in, what would sound the best. I'll post later on the why and the wherefore secret trick. For now, feel free to test me. Come up with a word, and put the word "freaking" in it somewhere, and I'll tell you where you put it.
Yes, this WAS part of my english class today.
Yes, this WAS part of my english class today.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Teaching, it isn't for everyone
We all know that if you want to be a teacher, you're not going to be particularly affluent. I did however learn that teaching has some major benefits and advantages.
1. Usually the contract is a 10 month contract, which means 2 months off per year. Much better than any job I've had to date.
2. After 5 years you get tenured in most school districts. After 10 years you can actually move on and collect a pension. If you go to another state and teach another 10 years, you can double dip and collect two pensions.
3. After the double dip, you can also maintain a job teaching at a community college or university and you could be collecting three incomes.
4. Starting salary is usually not less than $32,000, and with continuing education when you're working on graduate studies you could be making $60,000. Really the salary news isn't all bad. With a Dr. title you could easily make around 75,000 wherever you go.
There are also a few things that some might consider disadvantages:
1. If you volunteer for extra cirricular activities like coaching, field trips, summer school, teaching band, etc. It is a separate contract for not that much money. With the time that those things consume it ends up being less than minimum wage. Hug your band teachers and coaches.
2. Almost all teachers end up paying out of pocket if they want to go beyond the very basics in teaching. This means you need to be passionate about wanting to help people learn.
3. During the months you are contracted there can be some long hours and obligations that you will just have to endure. Try to embrace them instead of course, but some people just aren't built for the dedication it takes to be a teacher.
4. There are politics. During your first 5 years, if you can't play ball and make waves, they could simply decide not to renew your contract.
So since this is my primary field, teaching, these are some important lessons. I think I can be the best, which is why I'm pursuing it.
I've also decided to teach some community education courses on subjects I know to start building a resume' and get used to talking in front of people and running a classroom. This is a very exciting thing. I just have to make sure the offering is attractive enough to garner enough students to justify the class. So much to do.
Thanks again for stopping in.
Joe
1. Usually the contract is a 10 month contract, which means 2 months off per year. Much better than any job I've had to date.
2. After 5 years you get tenured in most school districts. After 10 years you can actually move on and collect a pension. If you go to another state and teach another 10 years, you can double dip and collect two pensions.
3. After the double dip, you can also maintain a job teaching at a community college or university and you could be collecting three incomes.
4. Starting salary is usually not less than $32,000, and with continuing education when you're working on graduate studies you could be making $60,000. Really the salary news isn't all bad. With a Dr. title you could easily make around 75,000 wherever you go.
There are also a few things that some might consider disadvantages:
1. If you volunteer for extra cirricular activities like coaching, field trips, summer school, teaching band, etc. It is a separate contract for not that much money. With the time that those things consume it ends up being less than minimum wage. Hug your band teachers and coaches.
2. Almost all teachers end up paying out of pocket if they want to go beyond the very basics in teaching. This means you need to be passionate about wanting to help people learn.
3. During the months you are contracted there can be some long hours and obligations that you will just have to endure. Try to embrace them instead of course, but some people just aren't built for the dedication it takes to be a teacher.
4. There are politics. During your first 5 years, if you can't play ball and make waves, they could simply decide not to renew your contract.
So since this is my primary field, teaching, these are some important lessons. I think I can be the best, which is why I'm pursuing it.
I've also decided to teach some community education courses on subjects I know to start building a resume' and get used to talking in front of people and running a classroom. This is a very exciting thing. I just have to make sure the offering is attractive enough to garner enough students to justify the class. So much to do.
Thanks again for stopping in.
Joe
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Back to school Week 1
This being my first post, I'd like to welcome you to my first and only blog.
I thought there might be a lot of people out there going to College for the first time. Whether you're 42 like myself, or just starting out from High School, it might be interesting to just share some daily lessons about school, school life, and primarily in this case, a daily thought or lesson I take away from school that sticks with me. This will also reinforce the things that I have learned and I would consider it part of studying.
I am posting a single sentence regarding my lesson of the day on my Facebook, and possibly Twitter, but there I'll expound on the thought in question and explain where it came from and my thoughts on the lesson. All of this of course is going to depend on my required study time and daily activities.
Since I missed starting this until after the first week of school, I'll just relate the one lesson that stuck with me on the two days I was able to attend class. We only had a 3 day week, but one day was cancelled due to snow. If you want the answer to the below one sentence lesson, skip on down past the dotted line, but all of what is written before helps you to understand the rest. The stories are actual true stories with the names changed.
Ok, here goes:
The thought for the week is:
The dualistic thinking of the strive for perfection will cause the ruination of the enjoyment of life and the success that you achieve.
What does this mean?
You may have heard the term that some people look at the world through rose tinted glasses, or that person lives in their own little world. The fact is that everyone does this. In Psychology this is called a Paradigm. Imagine yourself in a bubble. Everything you see of the world outside is seen through that bubble. Now imagine that bubble is made up of all of your unquestioned assumptions about the world as it is.
If you have an unquestioned assumption about the world, that means that you belive in it without considering other possibilities. When you are a child and learn what the color brown is, you no longer question if that color is truly brown, you just have an unquestioned assumption that it is always going to be and always has been brown. A better example to illustrate the meaning is someone who does not believe in a ghost. If that is part of your paradigm and you do not question it. If you saw a ghost you would ignore it as something else entirely. If you see something that does not match your paradigm, you may not even be aware of it.
It is difficult to teach awareness because of that unquestioned assumption. These unquestioned assumptions that create our paradigm come from many sources from what we are taught or our environment, perhaps even major events in our lives that change our paradigm.
Example: A very attractive man asked his friend; "Is there such a thing as love?" His friend tried to assure him that love did exist. The man said that he had never felt love. Unfortunately for the man, his experience, due to his good looks was that women always sought him out and pursued him, and when they had him in their lives, they only lived to please him. From his doting mother to girlfriends in college, to his own wife, they all had only one concern, to please this man. When his friend suggested this idea, and also suggested to him that perhaps love is defined by your desire to do for others and please others, he could not concieve of such a thing, and because it was not part of his paradigm, his unquestioned assumptions, the concept was so foreign that he could not become aware of that which his friend was telling him.
Disproving a Paradigm:
Rupert and Sally were married. Two very intelligent people who were both surgeons, they had a child together. Sally had been in two previous relationships. Both men had left her, so she had an unavoidable paranoia that Rupert would leave her too. Sally was so insecure that in counseling she revealed that she wanted to leave the marriage before it ended. As part of trying to make things better, Rupert and Sally planned a very romantic evening on the Plaza and a very nice dinner at a fine restaurant. As they were going into the restaurant toward the table, a waitress sort of bumped into Rupert and excused herself and moved on. At that very moment, their marriage ended. Sally had decided in that one split second that Rupert had decided to abandon her and pursue the waitress. She left immediately. The marriage ended and there was much suffereng and many reprecussions for them and their child.
From this example you can see that it would seem so easy to change. If you are hitting your fist against a wall, just stop. For most people it's very difficult to change. If it is in you paradigm, then it will probably happen as you predict, it will be very difficult to change and be aware or change your point of view.
So when does change occur?
1. people rarely change their character, their paradigm
2. When you hit rock bottom it is proof that your current paradigm needs to change in order to survive.
3. A very small percentage of people decide to change before they hit rock bottom.
If you want to change, it only takes an instant to make the decision to change. It may take years to implement changes, but it only takes that one instant to move toward making those tangible changes.
There are two main types of Paradigms; Linear and Qualitative.
Linear:
1. Steady Progress
A. Strength of a body builder is increased over time.
Qualitative:
1. Oranges and Bananas
2. Two completely different things.
Think of a 1st year teacher, there are advantages and disadvantages, No schedule options, Still learning, Working hard, Still exciting. In our Linear example we visit that same teacher some 10 years later. The teacher has more power, they can pick their schedule, the job is easier, very little prep or research time, but ... boredeom, and the routine nature, can actually make it seem miserable.
Linear isn't necessarily better than Qualitative, but a healthy mix of the two can work. All paradigms are different as there are so many different people in the world.
------------------------------------------------------------
So now we come to my sentence. Most of us in the US and what the world refers to as "The West" believe in a strive for perfection, a Western Paradigm that has driven industrialists and the athletic ideal.
The people who subscribe and believe with an Eastern philosophy have a difficult time understanding us here in the west. From their point of view, we need to stop dualistic thinking which consists of judging everything as degrees of good or bad, or as item A is better than item B, they don't even consider one type of relationship to be better than another. It is very difficult to understand the eastern way of thinking because words honestly get in the way of the concepts they try to teach in their paradigm. Have you ever heard of Yin and Yang?
To explain, think of the sets of the following words. I'll list two word sets, the first word will be Yang, and the second word will be Yin. By the time you read the list, you will have an understanding of Yin and Yang:
Thunder / Soft Rain
Speaking / Listening
Lion / Deer
Power / Grace
Knowledge / Questioning
Big / Deep
Bright Colors / Pastels
Running / Sleeping
In the eastern Paradigm, these are two forces in the universe. They see these Mountains and Valleys like a wave that flows through life. We are limited in our ability to think and live in this way because we have dualistic thinking in the west. We look for perfection. From their point of view, if perfection is your aim, then you are ignorant because you ignore these waves, these universal Yin and Yang concepts.
If you don't know the rules in life, you will likely fail. Take gravity for instance. If you are on top of a building and someone tells you to meet them at the bottom of the building outside, and you are ignorant of the rules of gravity, you might think the quickest (most perfect) way to look at it, and get there quickly, would be to jump off the top of the building to reach the bottom. Our Yang. The Yin would be to take the stairs or a lift.
So here is the prescription for understanding and opening your paradigm to a new point of view, to expand or change your own paradigm. Empty your mind from time to time, no thought. No act, make no act to make Yang happen. It is hard to fill a vessel that is already full. A good western time that is so out of date now is "stop and smell the roses" Enjoy everything in that moment with you rmind empty of everything else. You will lose joy if you are Yang all the time.
Example: In a group of friends, Ted is the one friend that is stronger, faster, and more athletic than the other friends. Every time he got together with his friends to play tennis he enjoyed the game, but he usually won. He thought to himself as one Summer wore on how he had won every game so far, and how great it would be to win every single game all Summer. A full Summer without a loss. Toward the end of Summer, Ted was playing against his friend Bill, and Bill was actually doing really well. Bill was enjoying it, but Ted was very tense, not enjoying the game, and his muscles were rigid and he lost his temper and barely won the game. He had lost the joy of winning. A couple of weeks later, Bill won. Ted lost and he could not handle it, he had lost the joy of even playing the game. Ted quit and never picked up a racket again.
A few other quick examples:
If you seek out the perfect bombs bursting in air sex, you will lose intimacy, the most important thing in a relationship.
If you seek the perfect look, you will harm your health, this has been done for centuries.
If you strive for that perfect grade every single time, you will live with extreme tension and will not learn.
Imagine a still and beautiful pond. If a leaf falls in and makes waves, you cannot smooth the waves out with your hand, you will cause more, causing more can cause tension, then frustration. You may even end up hitting the water out of frustration.
Try to think of things with Relativity.
Sometimes good things come out of things that seem bad at the time.
Example: A farmer's horse ran away. His neighbor came over and said; "sorry to hear about the horse missing, that's really bad." The farmer said; "Maybe". The horse came back and had met a mare, so he had two horses then. His neighbor came over and said; "Wow, your horse brought back another one, that's really good!" The farmer said; "Maybe". The farmer told his son to go out and break the horse so they could ride it or hook it up to the wagon, but in the process, was thrown from the horse and broke his leg. The farmer's neighbor came over again and said; "I heard about your son's leg, and I know that makes it harder on you, that's really bad." The farmer said "Maybe". Two days later a local Warlord came by pressing young men into service to fight in a war. Because the son's leg was broken he was unfit for war, and the family was left alone.
So here is the Knowledge with which we are left:
If you are living in the flow of life, then you will be in the flow of all things. Embrace the highs equally with the lows. Don't lose the enjoyment that life has to offer. Keep in mind that there may be things outside your paradigm. Welcome change if it can help bring you into a place of better balance.
Thanks for reading.
Joe
I thought there might be a lot of people out there going to College for the first time. Whether you're 42 like myself, or just starting out from High School, it might be interesting to just share some daily lessons about school, school life, and primarily in this case, a daily thought or lesson I take away from school that sticks with me. This will also reinforce the things that I have learned and I would consider it part of studying.
I am posting a single sentence regarding my lesson of the day on my Facebook, and possibly Twitter, but there I'll expound on the thought in question and explain where it came from and my thoughts on the lesson. All of this of course is going to depend on my required study time and daily activities.
Since I missed starting this until after the first week of school, I'll just relate the one lesson that stuck with me on the two days I was able to attend class. We only had a 3 day week, but one day was cancelled due to snow. If you want the answer to the below one sentence lesson, skip on down past the dotted line, but all of what is written before helps you to understand the rest. The stories are actual true stories with the names changed.
Ok, here goes:
The thought for the week is:
The dualistic thinking of the strive for perfection will cause the ruination of the enjoyment of life and the success that you achieve.
What does this mean?
You may have heard the term that some people look at the world through rose tinted glasses, or that person lives in their own little world. The fact is that everyone does this. In Psychology this is called a Paradigm. Imagine yourself in a bubble. Everything you see of the world outside is seen through that bubble. Now imagine that bubble is made up of all of your unquestioned assumptions about the world as it is.
If you have an unquestioned assumption about the world, that means that you belive in it without considering other possibilities. When you are a child and learn what the color brown is, you no longer question if that color is truly brown, you just have an unquestioned assumption that it is always going to be and always has been brown. A better example to illustrate the meaning is someone who does not believe in a ghost. If that is part of your paradigm and you do not question it. If you saw a ghost you would ignore it as something else entirely. If you see something that does not match your paradigm, you may not even be aware of it.
It is difficult to teach awareness because of that unquestioned assumption. These unquestioned assumptions that create our paradigm come from many sources from what we are taught or our environment, perhaps even major events in our lives that change our paradigm.
Example: A very attractive man asked his friend; "Is there such a thing as love?" His friend tried to assure him that love did exist. The man said that he had never felt love. Unfortunately for the man, his experience, due to his good looks was that women always sought him out and pursued him, and when they had him in their lives, they only lived to please him. From his doting mother to girlfriends in college, to his own wife, they all had only one concern, to please this man. When his friend suggested this idea, and also suggested to him that perhaps love is defined by your desire to do for others and please others, he could not concieve of such a thing, and because it was not part of his paradigm, his unquestioned assumptions, the concept was so foreign that he could not become aware of that which his friend was telling him.
Disproving a Paradigm:
Rupert and Sally were married. Two very intelligent people who were both surgeons, they had a child together. Sally had been in two previous relationships. Both men had left her, so she had an unavoidable paranoia that Rupert would leave her too. Sally was so insecure that in counseling she revealed that she wanted to leave the marriage before it ended. As part of trying to make things better, Rupert and Sally planned a very romantic evening on the Plaza and a very nice dinner at a fine restaurant. As they were going into the restaurant toward the table, a waitress sort of bumped into Rupert and excused herself and moved on. At that very moment, their marriage ended. Sally had decided in that one split second that Rupert had decided to abandon her and pursue the waitress. She left immediately. The marriage ended and there was much suffereng and many reprecussions for them and their child.
From this example you can see that it would seem so easy to change. If you are hitting your fist against a wall, just stop. For most people it's very difficult to change. If it is in you paradigm, then it will probably happen as you predict, it will be very difficult to change and be aware or change your point of view.
So when does change occur?
1. people rarely change their character, their paradigm
2. When you hit rock bottom it is proof that your current paradigm needs to change in order to survive.
3. A very small percentage of people decide to change before they hit rock bottom.
If you want to change, it only takes an instant to make the decision to change. It may take years to implement changes, but it only takes that one instant to move toward making those tangible changes.
There are two main types of Paradigms; Linear and Qualitative.
Linear:
1. Steady Progress
A. Strength of a body builder is increased over time.
Qualitative:
1. Oranges and Bananas
2. Two completely different things.
Think of a 1st year teacher, there are advantages and disadvantages, No schedule options, Still learning, Working hard, Still exciting. In our Linear example we visit that same teacher some 10 years later. The teacher has more power, they can pick their schedule, the job is easier, very little prep or research time, but ... boredeom, and the routine nature, can actually make it seem miserable.
Linear isn't necessarily better than Qualitative, but a healthy mix of the two can work. All paradigms are different as there are so many different people in the world.
------------------------------------------------------------
So now we come to my sentence. Most of us in the US and what the world refers to as "The West" believe in a strive for perfection, a Western Paradigm that has driven industrialists and the athletic ideal.
The people who subscribe and believe with an Eastern philosophy have a difficult time understanding us here in the west. From their point of view, we need to stop dualistic thinking which consists of judging everything as degrees of good or bad, or as item A is better than item B, they don't even consider one type of relationship to be better than another. It is very difficult to understand the eastern way of thinking because words honestly get in the way of the concepts they try to teach in their paradigm. Have you ever heard of Yin and Yang?
To explain, think of the sets of the following words. I'll list two word sets, the first word will be Yang, and the second word will be Yin. By the time you read the list, you will have an understanding of Yin and Yang:
Thunder / Soft Rain
Speaking / Listening
Lion / Deer
Power / Grace
Knowledge / Questioning
Big / Deep
Bright Colors / Pastels
Running / Sleeping
In the eastern Paradigm, these are two forces in the universe. They see these Mountains and Valleys like a wave that flows through life. We are limited in our ability to think and live in this way because we have dualistic thinking in the west. We look for perfection. From their point of view, if perfection is your aim, then you are ignorant because you ignore these waves, these universal Yin and Yang concepts.
If you don't know the rules in life, you will likely fail. Take gravity for instance. If you are on top of a building and someone tells you to meet them at the bottom of the building outside, and you are ignorant of the rules of gravity, you might think the quickest (most perfect) way to look at it, and get there quickly, would be to jump off the top of the building to reach the bottom. Our Yang. The Yin would be to take the stairs or a lift.
So here is the prescription for understanding and opening your paradigm to a new point of view, to expand or change your own paradigm. Empty your mind from time to time, no thought. No act, make no act to make Yang happen. It is hard to fill a vessel that is already full. A good western time that is so out of date now is "stop and smell the roses" Enjoy everything in that moment with you rmind empty of everything else. You will lose joy if you are Yang all the time.
Example: In a group of friends, Ted is the one friend that is stronger, faster, and more athletic than the other friends. Every time he got together with his friends to play tennis he enjoyed the game, but he usually won. He thought to himself as one Summer wore on how he had won every game so far, and how great it would be to win every single game all Summer. A full Summer without a loss. Toward the end of Summer, Ted was playing against his friend Bill, and Bill was actually doing really well. Bill was enjoying it, but Ted was very tense, not enjoying the game, and his muscles were rigid and he lost his temper and barely won the game. He had lost the joy of winning. A couple of weeks later, Bill won. Ted lost and he could not handle it, he had lost the joy of even playing the game. Ted quit and never picked up a racket again.
A few other quick examples:
If you seek out the perfect bombs bursting in air sex, you will lose intimacy, the most important thing in a relationship.
If you seek the perfect look, you will harm your health, this has been done for centuries.
If you strive for that perfect grade every single time, you will live with extreme tension and will not learn.
Imagine a still and beautiful pond. If a leaf falls in and makes waves, you cannot smooth the waves out with your hand, you will cause more, causing more can cause tension, then frustration. You may even end up hitting the water out of frustration.
Try to think of things with Relativity.
Sometimes good things come out of things that seem bad at the time.
Example: A farmer's horse ran away. His neighbor came over and said; "sorry to hear about the horse missing, that's really bad." The farmer said; "Maybe". The horse came back and had met a mare, so he had two horses then. His neighbor came over and said; "Wow, your horse brought back another one, that's really good!" The farmer said; "Maybe". The farmer told his son to go out and break the horse so they could ride it or hook it up to the wagon, but in the process, was thrown from the horse and broke his leg. The farmer's neighbor came over again and said; "I heard about your son's leg, and I know that makes it harder on you, that's really bad." The farmer said "Maybe". Two days later a local Warlord came by pressing young men into service to fight in a war. Because the son's leg was broken he was unfit for war, and the family was left alone.
So here is the Knowledge with which we are left:
If you are living in the flow of life, then you will be in the flow of all things. Embrace the highs equally with the lows. Don't lose the enjoyment that life has to offer. Keep in mind that there may be things outside your paradigm. Welcome change if it can help bring you into a place of better balance.
Thanks for reading.
Joe
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