100 Day Project – Day 50 – 10:01 pm Here’s the dictionary definition of “joy:” joy [joi] noun 1. the emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying; keen pleasure; elation: She felt the joy of seeing her son’s success. 2. a source or cause of keen pleasure or delight; something [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 34 – 8:10 p.m. ‘There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.’ Frederico Fellini Film Director A beautiful day today — glorious sun, a not so glorious autumn color due to so much rain, good smells and too much food at the [...]
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The three day weekend starting tomorrow reminds me of the importance of play for adults! Next week in my Introduction to Early Childhood Education, we’ll talk about play: what it is, the stages of play, how to support it, how to help children who don’t have a multiple assortment of ways to do it, and [...]
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100 Days Project — Day 1 — 5:45 a.m. Well, I have to laugh this morning as I begin to write the first entry. I got up very early on this first day of school to do some online research and writing only to discover that my Internet is down. So the piece I was [...]
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Today I spent a wonderful hour in the company of GCC students; some members of the Human Services Club (I think, either that or the Peace & Justice Program), the others were students in a song-writing class. They had put together a program to honor Gandhi’s birthday. (They made note that it was past his [...]
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