What if we ask ourselves: what is this here to teach us? When the shock of the result passed, I asked this of myself and the answer came to me almost instantly: the results of these elections, and many other things happening in the world, represent privilege running rampant, in a world where education is broken and has been for a while.
Perhaps one of the most annoying things I have encountered in my professional life is unsolicited, “well meaning,” advice. That moment when someone cares too little about you to make sure the time is right to offer feedback, but too much about themselves to keep their mouths shut.
I decided to actually see an osteopath when the pain in my left hip started to change who I was and the way I behaved.
The problem with compassion is that the door too it is called self compassion. Unless you try it on yourself first and therefore see the door and learn to open it, there is absolutely no way you can open the door for others.
I dream of a place where we look at each other so much more as partners rather than us and them and where we take the time to understand each other and the part we play in designing the experiences that shape the kids we love.
Because nothing seems to have a purpose unless we find the answer to “what is this here to teach me” about it, I reflected for a bit on the few but powerful lessons my first year in Denmark, the land of hygge and happy, taught me.
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