Have you ever come across an odd spider, insect, or plant and thought, "Hmm, what is this thing?!" Enter iNaturalist. iNaturalist is available for Android and for Apple and is completely free to download and use. After downloading the app you can 'Make an Observation' by uploading a picture of the organism in question and … Continue reading iNaturalist
Spending time camping with family is an perennial gift I am blessed to experience. The separation from the daily grind at home truly helps with recharging the emotional batteries. Once again this year our family has spent a week at Aloha State Park in Mullet Lake in northern Michigan. Similar to several other state parks … Continue reading Looking Up
This past school year I started posting a weekly Quote of the Week to accompany a Video of the Week. The goal being to start each week with some thought provoking material for students to ponder. Ideas which had very little to do with content and very much to do with self discovery. Most weeks … Continue reading Self Discovery
The story of the boy and the starfish is one of my favorites. In case you are not familiar with the story I have pasted one version below. If you would like a video version complete with dramatic background music, click here for a short YouTube version. One day, an old man was walking along … Continue reading The Starfish Parable
Warning: Hypocrite at the keyboard! My message in this post is to find the happiness to just be. This should come naturally to us as human beings but it seems like somewhere in history we started to try and become human doings instead of human beings. Admittedly, I have not figured out how to unlock … Continue reading Human Being, not Human Doing
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." -Helen Keller I am thankful for feelings. The ability to feel happiness, sadness, frustration, relief, contentment, discomfort; all of these feelings remind me I am Alive. I believe in life there is … Continue reading Unique Life Feels- ULFs
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