Tidbit Insightings, June 5

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Thomas Carlyle
Summer has come, at last. So far, it’s been a few days of sunshine and heat wave followed by four days of rain. On the bright side, the plants on our yard have [...]

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Enough

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Lao-Tzu.
When I was little, and had only learned a bit of English, I wrote a story. In English. I don’t remember what it was about,but I remember writing a sentence “She cried and cried until she had cried anaff enuf e n o u [...]

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I talk too much, but at least I don’t have tattoos

“Knock, Knock…”
“Who’s there?”
“Interrupting cow.”
“Interrupting c…”
“MOOOOOOOOOO!”
Today,  I finally finished analyzing the data for my teacher training BA thesis. The data was a videotape (an actual, old-school videotape – I’m not kidding!) of a 75-minute process drama session I taught a few weeks ago. Despite the fact that I wasn’t analyzing my own behavior as such, I [...]

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Criticism vs. complaining

It is easier to be critical than correct.
Benjamin Disraeli
Today’s post is fueled by the need to understand my own annoyance about something I encountered today. I try to avoid channeling that annoyance and aggression into my writing, but I might fail. Bear with me.
Is criticism truly a sign of intelligence?
I attended a study-related situation today [...]

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But it’s so difficult!

Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing.
H. Stanley Judd
When I grow up, I’m going to be a teacher.
By definition, a teacher is someone who helps others do things [...]

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