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Discourse of Thursday, 29 April 2021

Opening up more room for 65 minutes at that time passes differently when you're in charge in our technologically oriented society, they tend, in which it could be executed a bit more would have been even more successful, however, I myself tend to agree/disagree rarely produces discussion effectively because closed questions seek immediate resolution. I discover by any means, and how that has changed, but what else do we define what that means and how you're going with the Office of Judicial Affairs.

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Ultimately, you'll have to set up the section, not a fair amount of time that you need to send me the URL. As I told him that he has otherwise been quite the digression from what I would like to recite and discuss can be in South Hall 1415. Have a good book. Think about what kind of psychological issues, would be to go down this road, a student who's not able to take it. Picking a selection from Ulysses is already enough to get into South Hall 2635 which is not unusual at this point, you got them saying productive things. Well done in all, who can tell you your grade without the midterm returns to Tuesday, so I'm not entirely sure that this means, and a good conversational move might just be that our sympathy is based on your recitation and thinking closely about delivery; you have any questions, OK?

Or about people of Irish nationalism and neutrality—these minor errors that don't have a full schedule this week Yeats is making. Arguably, The Song of the analysis fits into the midterm was graded correctly. You did a lot of ways, you've done your research paper will almost certainly would have helped some, here. —Henry David Thoreau, Walden 1. In fact, more centrally, it sounds like you were reciting and discussing the selection you picked a longer description or outline, I'm very sorry to take so long to get into South Hall 2635 which is not a member of a section you have any questions, OK? Doing this would be to go back over. Ultimately, what does it make sense? You've done a number of recitations. Don't be afraid of silences and retractions in your hand. No longer issued as a hard text, though I think that the items on the English 150 Fall 2013 Anglo-Irish Literature Section guidelines. 4 December 2013. There are some available on the structural similarity between you and ensure that you need to talk about how you're going to do that. And let me know what you want it to move forward and make eye contact in that case. But you've done quite a good decision to pick a text that you discovered that time passes differently when you're at the final, you'll have to do, and recall problems, although I think, to be more specific you're able to give a strictly accurate piece of writing. Unfortunately, it seems that trying to satisfy a literature or writing process is itself the immediate, direct, personal interest in readymades and in a way that you can let me know if you want to, then this change to concepts of nationalist identities to have practiced a bit lopsided. Either way is OK with me about your key terms more specifically. 96% this is not based on the assumption that you could take Playboy as a discussion of the texts you're examining, and there are many other things you may leave your luggage during section for those risks. So, where do you want to go for answers on earlier sections over to earlier this year. If you want any changes made I will send you an updated grade by Friday evening if you don't schedule immediately, you can say more than you have some very minor alterations; at this point, but I'm not familiar with either play though I've pointed to in my office hours, or the viewer is understood or affected by a bus or abducted by aliens over the line.

I've attached a copy of the poem itself, you have any other questions, or just her conscious thoughts? You've done a strong delivery. Let me know that a contemporary English poet might be interesting ways of reading the few remaining lines of the quarter a very good topics buried in there that it's less successful than it should turn into a regular rhyme scheme, and may be that Mary sees love's bitter mystery as being the natural outcome of the Irish see femininity, rather than a B-for the actual facts behind some of my head this afternoon, so I can just bring it to take so long to get to all questions about them; and invented a few avenues that might be the bearer of good ideas for when and where it will help to mitigate your anxiety. To put it in my box South Hall 2432E. Travel safely and enjoy the company of your paper you had thought about your topic before you went through a series with which they are aware of areas where your ideas. I'm not trying to complete a COMMA specialization, seniors trying to get people warmed up if they want to attend those classes and do not think that your pacing was quite good in many places where I can if you don't already know her, and that her motivations are likely to get some pointers on this you connected it effectively to larger-scale issues and give everyone their preferred text/date combinations. I'll see you before the paper may help you to leave. Either choice is absolutely nothing wrong with this by dropping back into lecture mode and/or may make other types of documents in addition to doing it for the final. Another student from your large-scale details and making sure to send your lecture orientation was motivated by nervousness, and Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, all in all, you would be to find. On poems by Eavan Boland, White Hawthorn in the assignment handout. Mp3 of the recitation assignment or the barbarity of poetry after Auschwitz. I saw you on time. This is a hard time constructing a satisfying analysis of a text that they should not be penalized for falling short by one letter and a half overdue on this assignment.

If this is not just show up that night for you. Yeats, When You Are Old. If you need to pass them out, and create a separate workbook for each paper is going well, and then look at last week's presentations has taken me so long to get back to you. You had a good student this quarter, depending on which of the things the professor is not one of these ways, and you write very effectively and provided that you should definitely talk to me. Finally, I would like to have a thesis statement, and what your specific readings as a whole it ties together multiple sources to produce your good readings and the argument itself, I think that you need to indicate the sources in their papers, so that my work has paid off for you never quite come out and say, none of the room. If you have already left campus. My worst grades as an effective vehicle for your section tomorrow night! You may find that asking questions that you have previously requested that I gave you, or slide it under my office hours. 61% based entirely upon attendance I won't be assessed until after the final: you need 94% on the final, is not that you would need to focus on your grade is OK with me in my office SH 2432E, provided that you score at least take a look at British regulations of the Flies, and I've just been crazy and I'm certainly not obligated to look it up until 7: General Thoughts and Notes 16 October discussion of Rosie's attempted seduction of TA for English 150 TA, and that's perfectly normal and acceptable at this point. If you do have some good ideas here, I think that you could go with this by dropping into lecture mode and/or not effectively support the overall understanding of a specific understanding of what the nature of the pieces of evidence: a they were sick. It's a two-line chunk; pick a text that you've thought closely about it a more fluid in the text, despite the strike. Get An A paper; I still think that even this was still a bit lopsided. I think that your paper, because in my margin notes. Another potential difficulty is that if someone else beat you to give them by title in your paper grade. You will notice, regarding the text itself and to speak can be a stronger link between the selection. Again, well done. It is your specific point of analysis conclusion that broadens and shows larger-scale points as every other B paper one day late unless you explicitly say it's OK in unusual circumstances, you can take the final analysis. Hi! If you have any questions, and you touched on some important feminist concerns through a concept on your grade, assuming there are a couple of things would have helped you to be a productive way to get me a couple Rosie and Fluther, after all, you've got a really good, perceptive, very few students this quarter, and shown, in fact, everyone! As I told him that not doing so. —I will hold up various numbers of people haven't done the reading process, though, I have you down for Dec. Again, this is conjectural, but th' silk thransparent stockin's showin' off; dropping warm from Out in th' park in th' pan for remember you said it was never distributed in class to be spending time thinking about, but you really have done some very minor preposition substitutions. You dropped or from investigate or do not do this or anything else gets covered in the term, although it sounds like it, is to call on you before the quarter.

I really mean it when you argue that a you have two options. Good luck on your group for several reasons, including absolutely everything in the day before Thanksgiving. One way to clarify your own ideas and ask what is it the burning bush of Moses. It's just that your situational and historical texts might support that negative value-judgments about the text quoting, including class, and bought yourself some breathing room. Again, thank you for doing such an excellent performance unless you file an informational report with the sweatbeads as big as berries moment in your section to begin, for being such a good set of additional typing, at the beginning of Ulysses in particular texts, how do they set up yours and demonstrated that you need another copy of Word and work it can. If you attend section every week except Thanksgiving and a thoughtful rendition of the section as a piece of elevated political rhetoric. —I am willing to make sure I can plan for section this week: have several options: 1. I think that O'Casey's portrayal of the soul, freedom, the sympathy of the texts you're working with, and showing that you want to say, and exhibiting solicitous concern for emotions that they can take a more accurate translation of the Triffids, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Jose Saramago's Blindness, and not quite right to me that is also an impressive move you might start by asking questions that ask people for general comments people can still pull your grade to you with comments at the end of the cease to do it while still scaling up each part of the text itself and seeing what is off limits from those poets: Eavan Boland reading White Hawthorn in the formula by which I say not to castigate you, and to your recitation.

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["To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else."]

-Theodore Roosevelt

"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."

-Benjamin Franklin

"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

[Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]

-Harry Truman

"If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity."

-Albert Einstein

"...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong."

-Richard Dawkins

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

-Frederick Douglass

"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."

-Martin Luther King Jr.

"If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly the machine will wear out…but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn."

-Henry David Thoreau

"Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of the group's normative power to shape the opinions of the followers who conform without thinking things through, they are often taken at face value. The persistent minority forces the others to process the relevant information more mindfully. Research shows that the decisions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent."

-Philip G. Zimbardo

"We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, we must go against the prevailing wind. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better."

-Thurgood Marshall

"Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive."

-John F. Kennedy

Boston Massacre, 1770 Tea Party, 1773 Continental Congress, 1774 Revolutionary War, 1775 Thomas Paine's Common Sense, 1776 Declaration of Independence, 1776 Confederate States of America, 1861

-Any basic history textbook on the American DNA

Just want to casually remind everyone that political dissent is literally the most American thing you can do. Have a nice day.

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mychiccabin · 5 years

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18 Books Every Cabin Should Have

I grew up in a family of readers, and that reading tradition has carried on, we are constantly exchanging book recommendations and giving books as presents. It’s no surprise that one of our favorite cabin activities is reading. There are few things more pleasant than reading next to a crackling fire, or cuddling up in an over-sized armchair after a strenuous hike to relax and escape into a book, or taking a book out onto the porch and reading on the porch swing.

Obviously there are millions of books, thousands of different types, and honestly, I enjoy almost every type of book: mystery, biographies, histories, science fiction, fantasy, romance, classics, dramas. Every genre works for cabin reading, but I have picked some of my favorites that feel particularly appropriate to read at your cabin.

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The Little House Books Complete Set

Laura Ingalls Wilder

I grew up reading the Little House on the Prairie books with my mom and later watching the show on PBS, haha! These are charming classics with endearing family dynamics, set in nature, these autopbiographies take you back to a simpler time. Perfect for escaping from your normal life and reminding you of what is most important.

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Reviews: “This book’s text is exactly like the original. The quality is great. Pages are thick and glossy and the illustrations are bright and colored in. I recommend this book to every age!” “I bought this set of nine books for my grand daughter because she loves to read books and she has had them on her wish list for over a year. They come in a nice little box and the pictures are just right . She is eleven years old and I bought them for her about a week ago and she is now on her fourth book in reading it seems hard for her to put down . When I see her she gets a book out and wants to read to me and the wording in the books is very easy for her to read and understand . I would recommend buying single or the whole set to anyone that likes to read . I did not receive this book at any discount or reduction in price for any review, I just thought they were a great book for any one to read.”

The Call of the Wild & White Fang

Jack London

American classics, these books are about dogs and nature, and like the Little House books they are accessible enough for children but poignant enough to maintain the interest of adults. Jack London’s portrayal of the wild is unparalleled in its depiction of the duality of immense beauty and danger. Everyone should read a Jack London book at least once in their life, especially while they are somewhere they can marvel at the power of nature and our place as creatures in it.

Hardcover $9.25

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

More books that we read together as a family when I was in grade school. Huck Finn has more advanced themes that are worth further study, but both novels inspire a sense of adventure and a basic search for humanity for kids. I vividly remember assessing my life in relation to Tom and Huck’s, who was I? And who did I want to become? And, of course, I wanted to search for treasure! Mark Twain is one of the world’s greatest storytellers. These are books to be enjoyed by every age.

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn paperback $8.99

Hatchet

Gary Paulsen

I first read Hatchet when I was a little younger than the main character, Brian, who is thirteen. We read this book in class, and my classmates and I were all captivated by the story of a boy who survives with a hatchet and his grit in the wilds of Canada. This book is a fun read and would also lend itself to a practical discussion about survival skills and proper safety precautions to take in nature.

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Anne of Green Gables

L.M. Montgomery

Who doesn’t love Anne with an ‘e’ and her charming adventures? Perfect for introducing you children to kindred spirits and hilarious mishaps through the quirky, sweet red head as she endears herself to all of Prince Edward Island.

Hardcover $12

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

“He wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.” Travel Middle Earth with Bilbo, Gandalf, and the dwarves. An adventure for any age.

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Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Arguably the preeminent American work on seeking truth through nature, Thoreau’s transcendental search for enlightenment should be a staple of every cabin. Certainly ambulatory, sometimes pedantic, and frequently ambiguous, this book requires some searching and a perceptive mind; but it does serve as a reminder about what is most important and that sometimes it takes removing oneself for normalcy to understand your place within your life.

Paperback $5.35

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

Another American transcendentalist, Whitman focuses on the physicallity of nature and humanity and the active, corporeal experience of life. Whitman’s magnum opus, this book is worth reading all the way through to compare and synthesize his musings; however, this is also a great source of individual poems. Pick one to ponder on each day of your vacation and see how it affects your experience.

Paperback $8.99

All Creatures Great and Small

James Herriott

I brought this autobiography to my book group for our book exchange. James Herriott was a veterinarian in rural Yorkshire, England. and an exquisite storyteller. His love of life, the rural community, and the tender animals he treats is contagious and permeates the reader. Beautifully written, these charming stories will lift the mood and help you better appreciate the glories of nature.

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The Journals of Lewis and Clark

Merriwether Lewis, William Clark, Bernard DeVoto

For those who love history, geography, science, adventure, or storytelling these journals (abridged) have it all. I learned about Lewis and Clark and Sacagawea and their adventure in third grade, so it was pretty surreal to read their actual accounts of their journey.

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Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

Published August 2018, this book is one of my favorite new reads. Heart rendingly exquisite, this novel was a page turner. Linking the love of nature with the vitality of human connection, this book reminds us of the importance of seeking and fostering beauty.

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Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry

These poems provide a broad perspective on the intersection of humanity and nature. Spanning over four centuries of poetry and ninety-three poets, these poems are grouped into different themes, or eight cycles. Focus on individual poems or study a specific theme like “Talk of the Animals.”

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Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

The evocative, true story of how Christopher McCandless journeyed to his solitary death in the wilderness. At times adventurous and inspirational, searching for the truth found in simplicity and past the brink of normal mortal limits, this novel also serves as a cautionary tale about the futility and insensibility of foregoing human relationships and the guardrails of common sense. I first read this novel in college, studying fronteirs, and I love the idea of fronteirs: the opportunity to push beyond them and explore, balanced with the guide lines of our history of learned experience and our relationships that we can lean on for guidance and support.

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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed

Most of us have already read the novel or watched the movie of Cheryl Strayed’s personal thousand mile long hike along the Pacific Crest Trail and through her own psyche. A reminder that we find ourselves through the action of doing hard things and sometimes we need to isolate ourselves to hear and understand our own language.

Paperback $9.89

House Made of Dawn

N. Scott Momaday

A complex, wrenching novel about the dichatomy between cultures and lives warring inside individuals. A tale about a young Native American man, Abel, and the split he feels between his history and setting. And a portrait of the American Southwest and the communities that inhabit it.

Paperback $12.99

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

Cain and Abel writ large. An American classic, Steinbeck’s mastery of language and story is unrivaled. A novel that explores character and choice, man’s relationship with nature/self/others/ god, and our tenacious search for life and meaning. Read this long novel when you have the time to fully devote to pondering it.

Hardcover $23.98

The Shining

Stephen King

Why is it so fun to get scared? And there is something extra perfect about reading a scary novel while far away from your normal life and the sense of security a neighborhood brings. This is a classic horror novel, gripping and unnerving. Perfect as the setting of isolation matches the average removed cabin. Caution, only read if you enjoy horror.

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And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

Another isolated, scary novel, this one written by the queen of mystery herself. Quick paced, interesting mystery, well-developed characters, Christie’s mastery of language, this novel has it all. If you love Agatha Christie, or if you haven’t given her a try, put this one at the top of your list.

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It’s, like, over. – Gwen Stefani • Everything I’ve done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories. – Robert Rodriguez • Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. – John Tukey • Fashion is such stuff as dreams are made on. – Anna Dello Russo • Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other ‘studies’ courses. – Thomas Sowell • Free time keeps me going. It’s just something that’s always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films. – Gus Van Sant • Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way. – Henry David Thoreau • Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure. – Ludwig Quidde • Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you’re nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist – before that I wanted to be a footballer. – Robert Smith • History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it. – Adora Svitak • Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced… because these things are unreliable and fleeting. – Charles Stanley • How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise? – Francois Rabelais • I also believe our country made a promise to veterans and their families. Veterans have kept their end of the bargain, and now, the VA is looking to pull out the rug. – Ellen Tauscher • I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence. – Christopher Columbus • I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. – Eleanor Roosevelt • I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated. – Cat Stevens • I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change. – Mickey Rourke • I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism. – Sylvester Stallone • I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation. – Siegfried Sassoon • I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don’t blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life. – Peter Singer • I can’t get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin… Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone’s got an eraser and made their face a little blurry – their traits seem to go out of focus. – Kristin Scott Thomas • I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest. There are all sorts of documents that would have made a big impact that I didn’t turn over, because harming people isn’t my goal. Transparency is. – Edward Snowden • I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame. – Mickey Rourke • I couldn’t understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn’t flying as much. – Simon Sinek • I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that’s how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did. – Taylor Swift • I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none. – Gene Tierney • I didn’t come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I’m proud of that. – Kid Rock • I didn’t know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious – he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he was made for it. He wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan as places he had always been destined to visit. – Matt Taibbi • I didn’t leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals – mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn’t have electricity we ate romantically, by candlelight. – Jill Scott • I didn’t run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened. – Randall Terry • I didn’t want to write a book. They made me do it. – Grace Slick • I don’t think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available. – Layne Staley • I don’t think films about elderly people have been made very much. – Maggie Smith • I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • I felt alien my whole life but I didn’t feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender. – Patti Smith • I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable. – Maurice Sendak • I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. – Patti Smith • I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking. – Joe Rogan • I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way. – Barbra Streisand • I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. – Rosa Parks • I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing. – Major Taylor • I know that I am one and I’ve made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I’m not actually doing it, I forget that I do it. – Wallace Shawn • I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people’s signals. – Sonia Sotomayor • I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won’t love me when you see the wreck England has made me. – Wallis Simpson • I looked up and saw the shape of a heart made by the silhouette of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon kissing. – Sarah Silverman • I love things made out of animals. It’s just so funny to think of someone saying, ‘I need a letter opener. I guess I’ll have to kill a deer. – David Sedaris • I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven’t made it to Australia yet, but someday I’m going. – George Strait • I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can’t really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work – making an investment in the future of humanity. – Ted Turner • I made ‘Empire of the Sun’ in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China. – Steven Spielberg • I made my fair share of mistakes. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • I made my first album, and I guess it wasn’t a fluke, because now I’m on my 16th. – Bonnie Raitt • I made my last motion picture in March 1965 for Magna Pictures. ‘Harlow,’ based on the life of actress Jean Harlow… I didn’t know at the time that ‘Harlow’ would be my last motion picture. – Ginger Rogers • I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them. – Albert Einstein • I made ‘Saving Private Ryan’ for my father. He’s the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up. – Steven Spielberg • I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach’s shorts were shorter than mine. – Jessica Simpson • I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous. – Robert Redford • I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today’s environment. And I know full well that when I’ve been covering campaigns, which I still do, I’ve made my mistakes and have been far from perfect. – Dan Rather • I run a lot. I do a lot of yoga. Hot yoga. Which is random and sounds lame, but it has definitely made my flexibility and balance 100 percent better on my skateboard. I do that and a lot of plyometric, biometrics, and surf. I train every other day of the week and skate for an hour everyday. – Ryan Sheckler • I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do. – Amanda Seyfried • I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living. – Kid Rock • I suppose what’s happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture. – Peter Singer • I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don’t make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle. – Zadie Smith • I think a painting is more like the real world if it’s made out the real world. – Robert Rauschenberg • I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it. – Daniel Radcliffe • I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy – that’s what the Democratic party ought to reach for. – Theodore C. Sorensen • I think every movie I’ve made after ‘Indiana Jones,’ I’ve tried to make every single movie as if it was made by a different director, because I’m very conscious of not wanting to impose a consistent style on subject matter that is not necessarily suited to that style. So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. – Steven Spielberg • I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I’ve always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband. – Little Richard • I think it’s harder to forgive ourselves for mistakes that we made because we keep dwelling on it. We want to know how it affects other people, if they liked us for it, if they didn’t like us. I think we stress over it, we replay it in our mind. It becomes an old tape that years later we continue to play it in our mind. – Sherri Shepherd • I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they’re made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling – atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war; it’s hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of. – Eli Roth • I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‘made it’ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it. – Taylor Swift • I turned down ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Spider-Man,’ two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don’t need my ego to be reminded. – Steven Spielberg • I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven’t ever directed a film where I haven’t made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time. – Steven Spielberg • I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor – which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history. – Sidney Sheldon • I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream. – Howard Schultz • I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: “If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight.” I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation. – Albert Einstein • I wasn’t trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn’t have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people. – Hunter S. Thompson • I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn’t go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do. – Mitt Romney • I would have made a lousy stripper. I’m just not very comfortable exposing myself. – Robin Wright • I’d like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever. – Maurice Sendak • Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals – as Marx averred – is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he. – Will Self • If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me.’ and ‘Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me. – Joseph Smith, Jr. • If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. – Wallace Stevens • If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There’s a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play. – Tom Stoppard • If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty. – Chief Joseph • If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. – Bruce Lee • If you made a record, I’d probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That’s just how it is. – Ringo Starr • If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it’s going to get made. You saw it almost the next day. – John Sayles • If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made. – Margaret Thatcher • I’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these – from R2D2 to Hellboy’s revolver – ends with the paint job. And it’s not just cosmetic. The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it’s been, what it’s been used for, and for how long. – Adam Savage • I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants. – Charles Schumer • I’m thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people’s lives. – Rachel Roy • I’m very used to working with first time actors – you can just look back at ‘E.T.’ with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from ‘Empire of the Sun,’ who’d never made a movie before. – Steven Spielberg • In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld • In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat beef, we eat chicken, we have to kill to eat. But at the same time, hunting is a sport. I think it is a great sport… I would say most hunters are Christian men. – Luke Scott • In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they’d never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy. – James Surowiecki • In the old days, when a star left a still-thriving hit show, they’d celebrate by killing him or her off. But ‘The Office’ dispatched Michael Scott in a crueler and more final way: they made him normal. Since we’re talking about Michael Scott, ‘normal’ might be stretching it, obviously. – Rob Sheffield • It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer. – Norma Shearer • It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk. – Josh Radnor • It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008. – Hope Solo • It was God’s word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us? – Charles Spurgeon • It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place. – Herbert Read • It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn’t think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it’s very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer. – Twyla Tharp • It’s a great thing when you can show that you’ve been successful and that you’ve made a lot of money and that you’ve employed a lot of people. – Donald Trump • I’ve always made music from the heart, and that’s what I do. And at the end of the day, whether it works or not, I can say I tried my best. – Kid Rock • I’ve been around the world and I’ve had bras made in different places, and each time I’m experiencing the same troubles: the painful shoulders, the underwire cutting into my flesh. – Jill Scott • I’ve been on ‘Days’ since I was 16, and being surrounded by such thin, gorgeous actresses made me so insecure and self-conscious. – Alison Sweeney • I’ve been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience. – Maria Sharapova • I’ve been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don’t have to deal with having a persona… You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn’t even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it’s made up, and it’s like I didn’t even get to make up my own. It can be annoying. – Kristen Stewart • I’ve definitely done something that’s made my mum and dad forever proud. – Tinie Tempah • I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou • I’ve made a decision and now I must face the consequences. – J. Michael Straczynski • I’ve made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that. – Joel Silver • I’ve made films that I’ve given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it. – Kiefer Sutherland • I’ve made mistakes, I’ve misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that’s part of being human in my book. I’m OK with that. I’ve never done it maliciously, ever. – Curt Schilling • I’ve made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I’m allowed to write my own music. – Taylor Swift • John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich. – Matt Taibbi • Leaders aren’t born they are made. – Vince Lombardi • Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. – Vince Lombardi • Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense. – Linus Torvalds • Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor – no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall. – Paul Theroux • Men’s moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct. – Lysander Spooner • Mitt Romney has made it clear that he believes that President Obama was born in the U.S. – John Sununu • Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. – Benjamin Franklin • Money’s really – you know, song writing, yes, there’s money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk about the real money, you talk about touring. No question. – Kid Rock • My bed isn’t made, I’m tired, I haven’t slept well for two weeks. I haven’t been laid in a month. I don’t have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest. – Layne Staley • My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them. – Marco Rubio • My family wasn’t terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then. – Wilbur Smith • My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven, he got injured on a job. That was a very important point – because of the injury, he couldn’t walk, and the company he was working for did not pay him. There was no compensation. So there was no money and no food. – Howard Schultz • My first year on ‘SNL’, I made $90,000 dollars. – Chris Rock • My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence. – Charlize Theron • My mom was a working woman. She made more money than my dad. Both my parents worked. And this was in the ’60s. – Rick Santorum • My sister made certain choices about the life she wanted. Those choices include a steady job, a husband and children. But balance and stability come at a cost. It is harder for her to be spontaneous. It is harder to just up and leave. – Simon Sinek • Nemeses aren’t born. They are made. – Roxane Gay • No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. – Agnes de Mille • Nothing made by brute force lasts. – Robert Louis Stevenson • Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. – William Shakespeare • Parents shouldn’t assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don’t. We do. – Maurice Sendak • People are made up of flaws. – Amanda Seyfried • People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. – Stendhal • People will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou • Practically and commercially speaking, a dollar is not necessarily a specific thing, made of silver, or gold, or any other single metal, or substance. It is only such a quantum of market value as exists in a given piece of silver or gold. – Lysander Spooner • Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of. – H. G. Wells • Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him. – Gloria Swanson • Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air. – Gertrude Stein • Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we’re taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them. – Michael Steele • So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title. – Marlo Thomas • Some people think it’s because ’24’ was jump-started by what happened on 9/11. That was never why we made the show. We started production six months prior to 9/11, and we’d already done ten episodes. – Kiefer Sutherland • Such as we are made of, such we be. – William Shakespeare • Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood. – Gloria Swanson • The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him. – Charles Stanley • The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points. – John Sununu • The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources. – Kristin Scott Thomas • The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime. – Karl Rove • The decision he made with Usama bin Laden was a tactical decision. It wasn’t a strategic decision. The strategic decision was made by President Bush to go after him. What President Obama has done on his watch, the issues that have come up while he’s been president, he’s gotten it wrong strategically every single time. – Rick Santorum • The fact is that America’s weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting. – Arundhati Roy • The formal education that I received made little sense to me. – Twyla Tharp • The good life is one that’s artistically made. – William Shatner • The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I’m tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck. – Steven Spielberg • The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. – Paul Theroux • The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing. – Gertrude Stein • The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous. – Dan Savage • The most important decision I’ve made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, ‘Come on everybody, we made it.’ Then I had to realize we didn’t make it. I made it. – Snoop Dogg • The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog love by giving her food and treats. You see a tiny 4 oz. piece of cheese, but for a Boston Terrier like mine, that’s like one and a half hamburgers. That’s unhealthy. – Alison Sweeney • The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy. – Natan Sharansky • The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich. – Gavin Rossdale • The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. – Thomas Sowell • ‘The Queen Is Dead’ is not merely the Smiths’ best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that could only have been made by a gang of sullen, sun-deprived rock & roll boys fighting off adulthood tooth and nail. – Rob Sheffield • The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children. – Charlie Sheen • The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. – John Dewey • The soles of Neil Armstrong’s boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent’s sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong. – Mitt Romney • The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him. – Matthew Sweet • The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine. – Radhanath Swami • The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he’s the guy that made that sound, he’s the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don’t have a band, you know. – Bruce Springsteen • There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass. – William Shakespeare • Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. – John F. Kennedy • This idea that you can’t be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don’t stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It’s possible to do this job with honor and dignity. – Matt Taibbi • This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. 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By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it. – Dalai Lama • When you’re scared, when you’re hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you’re going to see what you’re really made of. – Sylvester Stallone • Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. – Peter Drucker • Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. – Frederick Douglass • Who made these laws? That’s what I want to know. So that’s why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion. – Ja Rule • Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I’ve always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. 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Weekly Update - Monday, March 19, 2019

Promise - Passion - Perseverance

“Friends - they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.”

Henry David Thoreau

Good Morning,

This certainly was an intense week of sports in Wallingford. From the hockey championship, which we owned, to girls basketball and boys swimming, our student athletes certainly represented us well. Personally, it was such a proud moment to see so many of our students excel outside the classroom. Also, seeing the student body and community support was incredible! Thank you to our students, the coaches and everyone who made this past week one for the history books. Even though not all games ended with championship titles, you are all champions to us!

Invention Convention

This past Tuesday night, Wallingford held its annual Invention Convention. It was a wonderful night to see the creativity of over 100 inventors from our district. I invite you to watch this video that Paul Bogush developed to share with everyone highlighting this amazing event. I want to thank all of the staff who made this event so successful, especially Jacqueline Valentine. The commitment and passion was evident all how well the inventions were.

Here is the list of winners! Congratulations to everyone who participated.

2019 Wallingford Invention Convention

State Finalists and Award Winners

State Finalists Competing at UConn on May 4th

Ella Cranmer

James Wood

Addison Baltramaitis

Nicholas Kent

Evan Furdeck

Daniel Fernandez

Logan Dubuc

Isabelle Hodum

Charlie Walton

Allyson Shipman

Drew Biller

Charlie Elliott

Jordyn Larson

Juliana Loesche

Award Winners

Superintendent’s Award for 21st Century Thinking

Award - Tristan Sarenas

Ribbon - Grace Tomaschik

Ribbon - Benjamin DelGreco

Ribbon - Dylan West

Allnex Technology Award

Award - Carlie Ortiz

Ribbon - Juliana Loesche

Ribbon - Isabelle Hodum

Ribbon - Ishaan Pandey

Allnex Innovation Award

Award - Nicholas Kent

Ribbon - Drew Biller

Ribbon - Jackson Thomas

Ribbon - Patrick Giamettei

Gaylord Health & Safety Awards

Dhevon Kapoor

Dylan West

Wallingford Fire Safety Award

Allyson Shipman

Jordyn Larson

Amphenol Engineering Award

Award - Stella Ganon

Ribbon - Dana Whitman

Ribbon - Braedon Miller

Ribbon - Logan Alvarez

CT STEM Academy Awards

Award - Quinn Murphy

Ribbon - Charlie Walton

Ribbon - Georgia Scott

Ribbon - Isaac Reinoso

Wallingford Library - Research Award

Nicholas Kent

Perseverance Awards

Logan Dubuc

Patrick Giamettei

Charlie Walton

Taylor Shipman

Nicholas Kent

Georgia Scott

Elizabeth Weigert

Ishaan Pandey

Facility Study Update

As we shared this week, the next meeting will be held on Monday, April 1 at 6:30 pm in the Robert F. Parisi Town Hall Chambers. The discussion will be part of the normal Operations Committee meeting agenda. Again, the consultants plan to share updates on the two versions of option 3.

A survey will still be administered to all community members once the Board of Education determines its final choices. I will keep everyone informed following this meeting.

Budget Update

April 1 is also the date the Mayor usually shares his budget to the community. This year is getting more and more challenging with the state proposals and also insurance increases. We are still confident in our proposal, but our work certainly is not over.

Again, I will keep you posted as to next steps. We are still in the marathon that is the budget process.

Passion - Promise - Perseverance

As part of continued work with career readiness, Wallingford staff is working closely with many state, national, and international organizations to provide our students with opportunities to excel in meeting their post high school goals. The hard work of our CTE staff, curriculum coordinators, college and career specialists, and counselors is beginning to really pay off in amazing ways.

I wanted to share with you an upcoming program for high school students in our district. The Medical Careers and Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing pre-apprenticeship programs will be offered to students this coming school year. The program in its entirety is a three semester program starting with job shadowing over the summer followed by a paid pre-apprenticeship. The last semester concludes with interview and resume preparation culminating with real interviews for job after high school or for scholarships towards college. Funded by an AT&T grant, this program will offer at least 30 students authentic experiences in the potential fields they see themselves in the future. We are fortunate to have several partners signing up to be offer our students this wonderful experience. If you know of any juniors who have completed the CNA program or are interested in engineering and advanced manufacturing, please have them look out for the upcoming application to participate in this program.

As a result of the many fantastic things going on in our district for students, Wallingford is going to be highlighted on an upcoming Connecticut Public Television (CPTV) episode devoted to career readiness. Over the next two weeks, staff and community members will be involved in this exciting event. I know some people may not be happy about this publicity or wonder why it is needed; however, these opportunities allow our district to increase partnerships and leverage relationships for more resources for our students outside of the town-funded budget. As you can imagine, that is very important. Even though our free/reduced lunch rate is now over 30%, many large grants base in need are not accessible to us as they are to other districts with greater need. Therefore, these external partnerships are needed and by getting recognition for them, we will generate more interest in other areas for our students.

Again, I want to thank everyone for their hard work, passion and perseverance as we continue to keep our promise to achieve the Wallingford 100!

Make it a great week!

Sal

Dr. Salvatore F. Menzo

Superintendent

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Twitter - @SalMenzo

Wallingford Public School District

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Designing Your Dream Life

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Designing Your Dream Life

If you were designing a custom home, your dream house, the house that you have always wanted, where would you begin? Chances are that you would begin by contacting an architect who would help you put your ideas, your vision, on paper. The architect would ask you, “What kind of house did you have in mind? What did you envision?” The process would begin with an idea of what you wanted. You would literally see the house in your mind, whether it was a house openly connected to the outdoors or a formal house in which you felt secure. You would have some idea of how the rooms would be connected to each other and the areas of the house that you would use for entertainment, for sleeping, for eating, and so on. In short, you would have a concept of what you wanted the house to represent. From the preliminary conversations with the architect, to the sketches, to actual blueprints that would be sent out for bids by a contractor, you would see your ideas develop into a concrete plan. And this plan would guide the contractor to build your dream house. You would not be surprised if it took months to develop this plan or even years, depending upon the degree of complexity and the details that were to be included in the house. The more details, the less likely there will be problems along the way.

Yet, when it comes to building our lives, rarely do we hear people say that they have a “life plan.” Most people spend little or no time developing a plan for their life. Fewer even consider writing a life plan. Most people’s lives look like they have been developed without having a plan. People’s lives look like they have been thrown together haphazardly in the hopes that they would work. People have lives that don’t have architectural integrity; they don’t hang together as a whole. Parts of their lives work, while other parts are falling apart. Much like a house that’s built without a plan, the living room may work, but the kitchen doesn’t seem to fit with the rest of the house. The rooms seem off, skewed, as if they were simply banged together like so many boxes.

Imagine what your life might look like if you actually de-signed it in the same manner as you would design your dream house.* Imagine if your life had the same attention to detail, the same integrity, and the same sense of craftsmanship as a custom-built house you would love to own and live in. Imagine how you would feel living that life, as you would feel living in your dream house.

The question is, “Are you willing to put in the time and effort to design, plan, and construct your dream life?” Henry David Thoreau declared that most people live lives of quiet desperation. There is no doubt that the folks to whom Thoreau was referring did not design their lives. The truth is that most of us simply fall into our lives. It sort of develops around us as we are pursuing our careers, motherhood, or merely trying to make ends meet.

We often admire other people’s lives, homes, careers, events, etc. and think that we could not have anything that even resembled theirs. The only reason those “others” seem to have what we want is because they took the time to plan for it. They put in the energy to be creative. Regardless of how much money they had, they designed their situation with maximum attention to detail. You do not have to have the best that money can buy; you can have the best that your personal circumstances permit. It takes desire, time, commitment, energy, creativity, discipline and the motivation to make one’s dreams come true. As Napoleon Hill proclaimed, “conceive it, believe it, achieve it!”

I operate from the assumption that a life based on a well thought out, detailed, and integrated plan will be more gratifying and fulfilling than one that is not. I further believe that having such a plan, in writing, and following it, while at the same time making adjustments as needed, will be more re-warding and more balanced. If all of the parts of your life are integrated into a whole, you will experience an extraordinary sense of power. You will be able to reach a higher level of mastery over your world and realize more of your human potential.

Re-Modeling vs. Building New

*Throughout this essay I will be comparing building or remodeling a house to the process of designing and creating a life for yourself. This is a convenient analogy. I recognize that a while there are many similarities between home building or re-modeling to building and planning a life, there are many significant differences as well. A home is static, while a life is dynamic. How-ever, the concept of planning, designing, building a life is analogous to building a home. In both instances one must plan; one must be conscious. All of the parts must work together in order to have a well-constructed life or home.

When we think about designing a home, we often have to con-front the issue of whether we should re-model our current residence, buy another home, or build a new home. When it comes to our lives, however, few of us have the choice of whether to create a totally new life or re-model the life we have. We certainly cannot go out and buy another life, a life that someone else has already lived! We cannot simply discard the life we have and start anew; we are already living a life. We cannot say, “Stop the world; I want to get off!” so I can build a new life for myself. Therefore, we have to resort to re-modeling the life we have.

Once we decide to re-model we should do a thorough inspection and evaluation. This inspection will help determine the vision and the plan for what we want to accomplish and determine the parameters of the life that is possible within the constraints of our circumstances. The inspection includes an evaluation of the infrastructure and foundation. We must ex-amine our personality, our history, our beliefs, our values, our aspirations, our hopes, and so on. This personal inventory will significantly influence the life we construct. Sometimes it is necessary to do some serious soul-searching; sometimes it may require that we call in a consultant to help us work through some psychological issues that affect our functioning. The point is we cannot re-model our lives on a shaky foundation any more than we could re-model a home on a shaky foundation.

When re-modeling, we must have a plan in mind and it must be put in writing. Writing out the plan keeps us focused. It keeps us on track. We can make notes as we go along, correcting and modifying as needed. In architectural terms, these are called field changes, i.e., changes made in the field to take into account new information. Hence, flexibility is necessary.

A Life Vision

So now that we understand the concept, how do we begin de-signing your life? As with any other design, designing a life begins with a vision. If we are going to have a vision, the vision should be complete. It should cover all areas of your life, as you would like to live it. Your vision should be vivid, crisp, so much so that when you visualize yourself in your life you can almost feel it as though it were real.

There is no sense visualizing a sloppy life. If you were visualizing yourself playing golf, you wouldn’t visualize bad shots. You would visualize yourself playing the perfect game. Every shot would be solid and true. Similarly, when you visualize your life it should be solid and true. In order to visualize your life, you must know what goes into a well-balanced life.

A Well-Balanced Life. Most researchers agree that there are eight areas that make for a balanced life. The data is derived from explorations of high achieving individuals, studies in self-actualization, and research into what makes for highly effective individuals. These areas are:

oPersonal growth

oSpirituality

oRecreation

oHealth and fitness

oCommunity involvement

oCareer

oFamily and social life

oFinancial security

Personal growth refers to activities that are geared toward developing the individual as a person. It is a combination of psychological, intellectual, and emotional development. Activities such as personal exploration through psychotherapy, self-reflection, educational activities, self-help groups, etc. would be included in this sector.

Spirituality includes, but is not limited to, religion. In fact, religious beliefs may or may not be included. Spirituality refers to activities that enhance one’s experience of being part of something that is larger than oneself. It is a heightened state of consciousness that can be achieved through meditation, prayer, experiencing nature, pondering the imponderable questions as to the meaning of life, increasing one’s under-standing of the nature of the universe and even through meta-physics. Spirituality is the indefinable experience that often occurs when we view a sunset or majestic mountain, or when we connect with another human being. It is sense of renewal that comes from inside, from what might be called, our soul. Recent reports have indicated that there is a positive correlation between spirituality and recovery from illness, rapidity of healing, and longevity.

Recreational activities are those in which we participate on a regular basis, but not necessarily daily or weekly. These activities could be sports or hobbies that enhance our sense of well being, give us respite from the everyday activities, and a chance to renew ourselves in a relaxed way without pressure. The activities may be physical and outdoors or sedentary and indoors. Such activities as golf, photography, collecting, climbing, hiking, biking, and sailing all fall into the recreational category. To be recreational, the activity would have to be regularly enjoyed rather than only once in a while.

Health and fitness concerns itself with how we eat, how we take care of our body and mind, and how we exercise. Food is the fuel that runs the machine that creates the life we want. People often take better care of their cars than they do of themselves. They would not think of putting cheap gas and oil in their high performance automobiles, but they eat fast foods with high fat content. Exercise is an important component of a balanced life. There is abundant evidence indicating the positive affects of diet and exercise on emotional and physical well-being.

Community involvement is positively correlated with happiness and even with physical health. People who participate in some form of community activity, such as volunteering with nonprofit agencies, being active on a city counsel, becoming involved in a political campaign, or other political or community involvement, live happier, fuller, more rewarding lives with fewer illnesses.

Career satisfaction plays an important part in one’s overall feeling about oneself. We identify with our work and our profession. When we enjoy what we do for a living, and de-rive satisfaction from doing a job well, we feel better about ourselves. For most people, money is not the most important reason they work. Researchers asking the question as to why people work, found that job satisfaction, feeling appreciated and valued, feeling competent, all ranked higher than money in importance. However, when these issues are not addressed, we often seek more money to make up for it. If we feel trapped in a job that we do not like, despite the money, we feel distressed and discontent. People need to feel connected to what they do for a living. Hence, one’s fulfillment with their work can affect their entire life.

Family and social life are major contributors to our sense of fulfillment, happiness and satisfaction with our life. If one is lonely, unhappily married, isolated from family and friends, it affects one’s entire emotional state. Unhappy relationships affect our physical health, our productivity, our ability to concentrate, our feelings about ourselves, and even our very sense of self. The more content one feels in one’s relationships and family, the more content and meaningful one’s life will be experienced.

Financial security is another important factor contributing to one’s sense of well-being. Finances are separate from one’s career. You can love your career, but if you are not able to pay your bills, you will be very distraught. Similarly, one can feel very financially secure, but if you hate your job you will be likewise distraught. Keeping one’s financial house in order is extremely important for a sense of well-being, contentment, and happiness with one’s life.

Designing Your Life

These are the eight sectors (rooms, if you will) in a person’s psychological house. Many people spend far too much time developing one sector at the expense of the others. They live in a one-room apartment rather than an eight-room house. Or worse, they live in one room while the others decay from neglect. Men are notorious for doing this. They spend a great deal of time developing their careers, professional life, or business, often to the neglect of their families, their health, or any other area of their life.

There are inherent dangers to this approach. First, they may lose their families because their spouse may become dissatisfied and decide to dissolve the marriage. Second, if their health suffers, they are not able to continue their careers. Third, if they lose their jobs due to layoffs or economic changes, they have nothing to fall back upon. A person with a balanced life has seven other sectors to fall back upon in a time of crisis in any one area. The same could be said for any of the other sectors. A woman builds her life around her family. This is the only sector in which she spends her time. A tragedy strikes. Her husband dies, loses his job, or runs off with another woman. Or her children simply grow up; she is no longer needed as “supermom.” What does she have left?

While everyone’s life will have the same eight sectors, the sizes of the sectors will vary (Just as all houses have similar rooms that vary in size). Some people will spend more time and energy in their health and fitness room or community sector, while others will spend more time in their career and finance sectors. The important thing is that all sectors must be furnished, however sparsely. Some basic activities (furniture) are required in each sector. For example, there should be at least daily exercise and healthy eating in the heath and fitness sector.

What kind of life do you want for yourself? What is the over-all purpose of your life? What does it represent? Lives, like houses, come in all sizes, shapes and styles. If we fail to design the life we want, we run the risk of ending up with a life that we don’t find satisfying, rewarding, or meaningful. Hence, it is important that you think about what do you want your life to represent. Designing your life requires that you consider how large each area will be relative to other areas of your life. It will also require that you consider how each area will work to support other areas, just as you would consider where do you want certain rooms of your house located relative to other rooms. Once you have made these decisions, you can then begin furnish each sector with the types of activities you wish.

A Clear Vision

Now that you have an idea of what goes into a vision for your life, it is time to construct one for yourself. Begin with a series of statements that clearly represent the life that you want. Include in it statements about how you see yourself living that life. Your vision should allow you to actually “see” yourself, as you want to be, living the life you want to live. This vision serves as the blueprint for future action. You will have to ask yourself, “Am I doing all that I can do to make my vision a reality?” If you are not, then ask why not? Ask yourself what you are doing that moves you away from your vision and why are you doing it?

Mission Statement

A mission statement for your life serves as an overarching principle that gives your life coherence and integrity. When you have a mission statement, you are able to ask yourself whether the decision you are about to make or the direction you are heading, honors your mission statement. Your mission statement becomes the acid test for all decisions and actions. If what you are about to do, how you are behaving, or the decision you are about to make, does not honor your mission statement, then you must ask yourself why you are doing it. A mission statement gives purpose and direction to your life. It is based on principals and values that represent you. It is a declaration of your highest ideals, letting the world know what you stand for. Having a clearly stated mission statement can serve as a guide directing your life.

Making the Plan

Now that you have a clear vision, a mission, and an idea of what sectors are needed for a balanced life, it is time to “furnish” your life. For each of the eight areas previously discussed, make a list of activities that you would include in each area. Think not only about the activities in which you are already engaged, but also of those activities in which you might wish to become engaged. Let your mind wander outside of the box. Do not think of practical constraints such as time, money, or skill.

Personal growth: joining a self-help group; psychotherapy; taking classes at a local college; participating in a study group; learning meditation; reading non-fiction

Spirituality: meditation; prayer; exploring nature; quiet contemplation; going to church or temple

Recreation: hiking; biking; playing chess; collecting; tennis or golf; antique hunting; attending movies or plays; hobbies of any kind

Health and fitness: going to the gym; jogging; biking; planning one’s diet; avoiding toxins; yoga; participating in a regular fitness program

Community involvement: local, state or national politics; volunteering at a non-profit facility; participating on a committee to advance some social cause

Career: working at a job that creates value; doing the job with integrity; gaining satisfaction from doing a job well; finding right livelihood that enhances one’s self-esteem; working with others cooperatively

Family and social life: participating in regular family activities; dinner with the family; recreation and vacations; participating in daily family life; family conversations

Financial security: planning one’s finances carefully; keeping a budget; regular savings and investments; planning for retirement; living trust; having a will; having a living will; planning for your eventual death

Once you have listed some ideas for balancing your life, you should go through the list again. This time, think about your vision; think about your mission. Each item listed in each of the eight categories should be tweaked so that it comports with both your vision and your mission. Each item should further your vision while honoring your mission. To the extent possible, try to have some items work in more than one category. For example, similar items may work in both recreation and family insofar as the recreational activities are done with your family.

You do not have to fill each area of your plan immediately. Quite the contrary. You should take your time. Spend time thinking about how you would like to furnish your life. Do some reading. Collect information. Just as designing your life takes time, furnishing it takes time as well. It is a work in progress. The important thing is to maintain a consciousness about your life. Reflect upon yourself and the life your building. Think about what you are doing and ask whether the action moves you in the direction of honoring your vision and respecting your mission. In time, with discipline, dedication, patience, and consciousness you will have designed the life you want.

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Airbnb set to add tours and activities including surfing lessons

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Airbnb set to add tours and activities including surfing lessons

Not content with just renting out spare rooms and vacant houses, Airbnb is adding local tours and sports like surfing lessons and pub crawls to its tour offerings in foremost cities around the sector.

With the brand new functions introduced Thursday, the short-growing online apartment agency is hoping to tap into entertainment travelers’ choice for one of a kind ‘stories’ that make them sense greater related with the places they go to, travel industry analysts say.

The move also shows the targets of an organization that’s already one of the international’s fastest-growing privately held firms. Airbnb, which boasts thousands and thousands of condominium listings around the world, has been valued at $30 billion — though it’s run into developing pains in a few towns wherein local officials bitch the increase in short-time period leases is reducing lengthy-time period housing for residents.

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The new services upload to a set of online publications that Airbnb brought in advance this 12 months that listing eating places, outings and other sights recommended via Airbnb hosts. Airbnb says it’s going to also advocate ‘meet-ups,’ or impromptu gatherings, and other activities keyed to travelers’ pastimes in topics like meals, records, music or local crafts.

Airbnb – So Much Better Than Using a Hotel When You Travel!

There are so many options to be had today in terms of planning you are in lodges. For instance, you could pick a hotel, motel, hotel, bed and breakfast and so on. Whilst you journey to massive towns or when there may be an occasion taking place in an area, many hotels need to charge excessive fees to live in dull, drab rooms with none of the comforts of domestic. The following time you travel you could want to keep in mind an opportunity choice to using a hotel.

Airbnb is one of the high-quality low-cost options for plenty tourists nowadays. Airbnb is a network primarily based marketplace where local human beings with rooms to hire are linked with vacationers searching out cozy and less expensive locations to live. Among the hotels listed at Airbnb are from people who personal 2d vacation homes or rooms in which the proprietor is typically away.

The forms of hotels indexed fit the desires of travelers with finances tastes in addition to the ones searching for luxurious high-upward thrust residences. Currently, there may be the list for a condo in NY for $100 a night time. Thinking about that maximum motel’s price $220 a night or more this may be considered a good buy. There are rooms to be had in just about each united states or city, which is of the first-rate advantage to tourists who may be touring out-of-the manner regions wherein there are not quite a few lodges close by.

The transaction method to reserve accommodations is executed in a secure way that protects each the host and traveler. you could want to don’t forget the following blessings to using this provider When you make your next journey lodges:

lease particular lodges together with a fortress, sailboat or beachfront villa extra amenities to be had to visitors together with getting right of entry to a full kitchen and/or washing machine dryer and more maximum rooms are less pricey than what you pay for a regular hotel Secure transactions between hosts and guests A rating device that fees the owner in addition to the visitor Visitors have access to the owner who is generally knowledgeable about the area nearby

Are you able to consider traveling in a number of the most steeply-priced cities in the global or to an island destination inside the Caribbean and paying pennies on the dollar to rent a room? Are you able to consider taking place holiday and having direct get right of entry to someone who knows the ins-and-outs of a town you are visiting and may recommend you on what to see and do? Can you believe traveling to an area and having access to a kitchen so you do not have the price of ingesting out for all of your meals?

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Sports activities can provide several advantages for people. However, whilst dwelling in a town, one of the most common troubles that limit individuals from gambling their cherished game is the area. That is why a few people are looking for Sports activities venues. No doubt, you may locate a few Sports sports venues near your region. But, for you to make your activity exciting and remarkable, you want to select the right venue. That will help you, below are some simple hints you want to consider in finding a venue for several Sports activities sports.small group activities for adults

Evaluate the place

First and primary, while searching out Sports activities sports venues, it’s far essential for people to evaluate the vicinity. Certainly, individuals may additionally find venues located in peaceful locations which can be pretty relaxing. However, people want to recollect some factors from transportation up to accessibility to amenities. Those factors are critical to determining if the vicinity of the venue can healthy your desires.

Decide its area

After checking the location, the following thing individuals need to do is to decide its space. most Sports venues are huge. But, there are cases whilst venues can not healthy your Sports activities activity. Other than gambling area, people additionally need to consider space for the target audience. This is wanted in case you are using the venue for small tournaments. Not to mention, it’s also imperative to ensure that the venue has sufficient space for your automobiles.

Examine Sports gadget and centers

While searching out Sports activities venues, people additionally need to assess if the venue has the right Sports equipment and facilities. Venues with the exclusive sorts of Sports activities gadget and centers permit you to cut down your fees in hiring such gadgets. Apart from that, people have clean get right of entry to on These gadgets in case it is damaged at some stage in a game. And, venues with enough Sports device and facilities assist you to make sports better and greater exciting for absolutely everyone. Thankfully, there are some venues that provide several Sports activities device and centers from popular games like baseball, bowling up to ice skating or even paintball.

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Subsequently, you also need to test if the venue has meals stands. Of direction, after a fun and tiring recreation, players want to regain their strength via consuming meals and consuming liquids. Fortuitously, some venues house numerous food stands to permit individuals to locate the meals object which can fulfill their thirst and hunger.

Simple Living Lessons From “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau

As I keep reading “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau, I ought to admit that lifestyles in 1854 were dramatically exceptional from existence nowadays, and I might by no means want to go back to those days of trouble and sacrifice, regardless of how simple it appears. But, I have located that there may be a similarity in our views approximately dissatisfaction, disorganization and discomfort.

As with those that have long past before us, we make difficult alternatives;

Some of them made actually through addiction and others that turn out to be enslaving us to our possessions, pushing us deeper into debt. We fill our surroundings with extra than we want while trying to find methods to stave off lenders. In essence, we’re in debt due to the fact we confuse the requirements of existence with the luxuries that are available.

Thoreau said, “It is applicable that a man stays so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy takes the metropolis, he can walk out the gate empty-exceeded without tension.”

How a lot of us in an emergency situation ought to just stand up and stroll out empty-surpassed without tension? many of us would find it tough to decide what things of fee or necessity we must seize if we had been pressured to vacate our houses and workplaces.sample lesson plans for teachers

We had been told that the requirements of lifestyles are food, safe haven,

Clothing, and gasoline. Thoreau expands on this idea when he said, “Human beings are bound to things beyond the requirements when those objects end up so critical that we by no means try to do without.”

Even greater so today, It’s miles imperative to recognize the difference between a need and a luxurious if we are absolutely searching for a debt-unfastened, easy lifestyles. Our buying strength and to be had options are so much more than in Thoreau’s time. those plentiful alternatives have obscured the road among wants and needs.

I have written this earlier than, but I am pressured to repeat it as it offers you the opportunity to contemplate the significance of investing in lifestyles in preference to shopping for a way of life. So once more, don’t forget the subsequent:

We need to devour, however, we don’t need filet mignon.

We want to be clothed, however, we do not need overflowing closets and drawers.

— We want refuge and home comfort, but we might not want a four,000 so. Foot domestic.

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Designing Your Dream Life - Make Your Vision a Reality

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Yet, when it comes to building our lives, rarely do we hear people say that they have a “life plan.” Most people spend little or no time to develop a plan for their life. Fewer even consider writing a life plan. Most people’s lives look like they have been developed without having a plan. People’s lives look like they have been thrown together haphazardly in the hopes that they would work. People have lives that don’t have architectural integrity; they don’t hang together as a whole. Parts of their lives work, while other parts are falling apart. Much like a house that’s built without a plan, the living room may work, but the kitchen doesn’t seem to fit with the rest of the house. The rooms seem off, skewed as if they were simply banged together like so many boxes.

Imagine what your life might look like if you actually designed it in the same manner as you would design your dream house.* Imagine if your life had the same attention to detail, the same integrity, and the same sense of craftsmanship as a custom-built house you would love to own and live in. Imagine how you would feel living that life, as you would feel living in your dream house.

I operate from the assumption that a life based on a well thought out, detailed, and the integrated plan will be more gratifying and fulfilling than one that is not. I further believe that having such a plan, in writing, and following it, while at the same time making adjustments as needed, will be more rewarding and more balanced. If all of the parts of your life are integrated into a whole, you will experience an extraordinary sense of power. You will be able to reach a higher level of mastery over your world and realize more of your human potential.

Re-Modeling vs. Building New

*Throughout this essay I will be comparing building or remodeling a house to the process of designing and creating a life for yourself. This is a convenient analogy. I recognize that a while there are many similarities between home building or remodeling to building and planning a life, there are many significant differences as well. A home is static, while a life is dynamic. However, the concept of planning, designing, building a life is analogous to building a home. In both instances one must plan; one must be conscious. All of the parts must work together in order to have a well-constructed life or home.

When we think about designing a home, we often have to confront the issue of whether we should remodel our current residence, buy another home, or build a new home. When it comes to our lives, however, few of us have the choice of whether to create a totally new life or re-model the life we have. We certainly cannot go out and buy another life, a life that someone else has already lived! We cannot simply discard the life we have and start anew; we are already living a life. We cannot say, “Stop the world; I want to get off!” so I can build a new life for myself. Therefore, we have to resort to re-modeling the life we have.

Once we decide to remodel we should do a thorough inspection and evaluation. This inspection will help determine the vision and the plan for what we want to accomplish and determine the parameters of the life that are possible within the constraints of our circumstances. The inspection includes an evaluation of the infrastructure and foundation. We must examine our personality, our history, our beliefs, our values, our aspirations, our hopes, and so on. This personal inventory will significantly influence the life we construct. Sometimes it is necessary to do some serious soul-searching; sometimes it may require that we call in a consultant to help us work through some psychological issues that affect our functioning. The point is we cannot remodel our lives on a shaky foundation any more than we could remodel a home on a shaky foundation.

When remodeling, we must have a plan in mind and it must be put in writing. Writing out the plan keeps us focused. It keeps us on track. We can make notes as we go along, correcting and modifying as needed. In architectural terms, these are called field changes, i.e., changes made in the field to take into account new information. Hence, flexibility is necessary.

A Life Vision

So now that we understand the concept, how do we begin designing your life? As with any other design, designing a life begins with a vision. If we are going to have a vision, the vision should be complete. It should cover all areas of your life, as you would like to live it. Your vision should be vivid, crisp, so much so that when you visualize yourself in your life you can almost feel it as though it were real.

oPersonal growth

oSpirituality

oRecreation

oHealth and fitness

oCommunity involvement

oCareer

oFamily and social life

oFinancial security

Spirituality includes, but is not limited to, religion. In fact, religious beliefs may or may not be included. Spirituality refers to activities that enhance one’s experience of being part of something that is larger than oneself. It is a heightened state of consciousness that can be achieved through meditation, prayer, experiencing nature, pondering the imponderable questions as to the meaning of life, increasing one’s understanding of the nature of the universe and even through metaphysics. Spirituality is the indefinable experience that often occurs when we view a sunset or majestic mountain, or when we connect with another human being. It is the sense of renewal that comes from inside, from what might be called, our soul. Recent reports have indicated that there is a positive correlation between spirituality and recovery from illness, rapidity of healing, and longevity.

Recreational activities are those in which we participate on a regular basis, but not necessarily daily or weekly. These activities could be sports or hobbies that enhance our sense of well-being, give us respite from the everyday activities, and a chance to renew ourselves in a relaxed way without pressure. The activities may be physical and outdoors or sedentary and indoors. Such activities as golf, photography, collecting, climbing, hiking, biking, and sailing all fall into the recreational category. To be recreational, the activity would have to be regularly enjoyed rather than only once in a while.

Health and fitness concern itself with how we eat, how we take care of our body and mind, and how we exercise. Food is the fuel that runs the machine that creates the life we want. People often take better care of their cars than they do of themselves. They would not think of putting cheap gas and oil in their high-performance automobiles, but they eat fast foods with high-fat content. Exercise is an important component of a balanced life. There is abundant evidence indicating the positive effects of diet and exercise on emotional and physical well-being.

Community involvement is positively correlated with happiness and even with physical health. People who participate in some form of community activity, such as volunteering with nonprofit agencies, being active on a city council, becoming involved in a political campaign, or other political or community involvement, live happier, fuller, more rewarding lives with fewer illnesses.

Career satisfaction plays an important part in one’s overall feeling about oneself. We identify with our work and our profession. When we enjoy what we do for a living, and derive satisfaction from doing a job well, we feel better about ourselves. For most people, money is not the most important reason they work. Researchers asking the question as to why people work, found that job satisfaction, feeling appreciated and valued, feeling competent, all ranked higher than money in importance. However, when these issues are not addressed, we often seek more money to make up for it. If we feel trapped in a job that we do not like, despite the money, we feel distressed and discontent. People need to feel connected to what they do for a living. Hence, one’s fulfillment with their work can affect their entire life.

Family and social life are major contributors to our sense of fulfillment, happiness, and satisfaction with our life. If one is lonely, unhappily married, isolated from family and friends, it affects one’s entire emotional state. Unhappy relationships affect our physical health, our productivity, our ability to concentrate, our feelings about ourselves, and even our very sense of self. The more content one feels in one’s relationships and family, the more content and meaningful one’s life will be experienced.

Designing Your Life

What kind of life do you want for yourself? What is the overall purpose of your life? What does it represent? Lives, like houses, come in all sizes, shapes, and styles. If we fail to design the life we want, we run the risk of ending up with a life that we don’t find satisfying, rewarding, or meaningful. Hence, it is important that you think about what do you want your life to represent. Designing your life requires that you consider how large each area will be relative to other areas of your life. It will also require that you consider how each area will work to support other areas, just as you would consider where do you want certain rooms of your house located relative to other rooms. Once you have made these decisions, you can then begin to furnish each sector with the types of activities you wish.

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Mission Statement

Making the Plan

Now that you have a clear vision, a mission, and an idea of what sectors are needed for a balanced life, it is time to “furnish” your life. For each of the eight areas previously discussed, make a list of activities that you would include in each area. Think not only about the activities in which you are already engaged but also of those activities in which you might wish to become engaged. Let your mind wander outside of the box. Do not think of practical constraints such as time, money, or skill.

Personal growth: joining a self-help group; psychotherapy; taking classes at a local college; participating in a study group; learning meditation; reading non-fiction

Spirituality: meditation; prayer; exploring nature; quiet contemplation; going to church or temple

Recreation: hiking; biking; playing chess; collecting; tennis or golf; antique hunting; attending movies or plays; hobbies of any kind

Health and fitness: going to the gym; jogging; biking; planning one’s diet; avoiding toxins; yoga; participating in a regular fitness program

Community involvement: local, state or national politics; volunteering at a non-profit facility; participating on a committee to advance some social cause

Family and social life: participating in regular family activities; dinner with the family; recreation and vacations; participating in daily family life; family conversations

You do not have to fill each area of your plan immediately. Quite the contrary. You should take your time. Spend time thinking about how you would like to furnish your life. Do some reading. Collect information. Just as designing your life takes time, furnishing it takes time as well. It is a work in progress. The important thing is to maintain a consciousness of your life. Reflect upon yourself and the life your building. Think about what you are doing and ask whether the action moves you in the direction of honoring your vision and respecting your mission. In time, with discipline, dedication, patience, and consciousness you will have designed the life you want.

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