tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282611045408078347.post3987457093442816863..comments2023-07-05T17:43:40.878+05:30Comments on By Little and By Little: Fighting With MyselfJo Chopra McGowanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663017534433599497noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282611045408078347.post-59586892215305596482011-03-16T04:49:26.331+05:302011-03-16T04:49:26.331+05:30The Sr Raeanne type was pretty much a given in my ...The Sr Raeanne type was pretty much a given in my experience of catholic grade school teaching but I do love those 2 quotes.<br />Is that where Deepak Chopra got them? I had no idea he was in your class! <br /><br />I don't know that 6th graders are equipped to understand those deep truths yet but with patience and love in the classroom they might have a chance at it.<br /><br />I can tell you for sure that hauling a child in front of a class to sing all by himself, as a punishment, will only do damage.<br /><br />I learned this by being called "fog horn McGowan" and being forced to sing frequently alone in front of class. <br /><br />It has taken me 49 years to undo that damage. I actually tried to find Jimmy on line w/o success. I'd like to tell him that it is possible to sing again. Jeffrey is apparently still in the FRPD.<br /><br />I would say that common wisdom while perhaps "common" is in fact pretty much spot on.<br /><br />You, my dear sister, are in a class all your own! Most children don't see with such clarity when a teacher is "nuts".<br /><br />Personally I thank God every day for you and your vision. <br /><br />You may stop beating yourself up now, dear.Cris McGowannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282611045408078347.post-76077249995639031262011-03-15T22:07:48.882+05:302011-03-15T22:07:48.882+05:30Ajay, such a beautiful poem! Thanks for sharing it...Ajay, such a beautiful poem! Thanks for sharing it!Jo Chopra McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15663017534433599497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282611045408078347.post-81382995192068316902011-03-15T16:40:06.791+05:302011-03-15T16:40:06.791+05:30Dear Jo..
This is beautiful profound thoughts and...Dear Jo..<br /><br />This is beautiful profound thoughts and Wisdom ... I repeat this Poem by W S Merwin<br /><br />They know so much more now about<br />the heart we are told but the world<br />still seems to come one at a time<br />one day one year one season and here<br />it is spring once more with its birds<br />nesting in the holes in the walls<br />its morning finding the first time<br />its light pretending not to move<br />always beginning as it goes<br /><br />- W. S. MERWIN -Entropyhttp://www.entropy.in/noreply@blogger.com