Hello All!

As excited as I am to begin this blog, I'm not sure where to start. I hope people will write me questions so I don't just ramble on.
I suppose I will just compose a list of concise phrases that shape my thinking. Enjoy!

• We are literally One Human Family.
• Metaphors are important tools for understanding the world.
• You are what you do.
• Healing can be painful.
• Language shapes thought and thought shapes the mind.
• All you need is love.
• Empathy is feeling with others.
• Practice makes permanent.
• Challenge yourself: How many people can you love?
• Do not let anger make decisions for you.
• Awareness is an agent of change.
• Meanness makes you ugly on the inside.

I'm sure I'll think of more, but there's a start. I find that phrases of this kind are useful in childcare because they are easy to remember and can encapsulate a whole lesson's worth of meaning. My old dance teacher used to call them "pearls of wisdom." I'm proud to have come up with some of my own (although, a few are borrowed). I'm always collecting more if anyone has any good ones to share.