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Reflections on becoming

  • Being in a family

    Just because you are a part of a family doesn’t mean you’re having life easy. Easier must be. But easy? I don’t think so. Why would I say that? Because admit it or not, you’re still learning how to deal with everybody in the family. Even if you have the same upbringing or values, there Read more

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  • Access is not enough

    Even if you have the most cutting-edge technology in the palm of your hands, if you don’t know how to use it or maximize its potential, it becomes as common as any tool you have. You might have heard people who are already flourishing in their field tell you that, “What you have in your Read more

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  • Knowing the roots of the issue

    As I was doing my daily Bible reading, I came across this story about how Jepthah went back to the essence of the conflict between Israel and its neighboring enemies. How often do we jump into a part of a dispute without knowing its roots, believing that what we have to say about it is Read more

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  • Floating like a bubble, numbing down

    At one time or another, you’ve been fascinated by bubbles. Here now and poof! Gone. So you make them again and again and again. It’s as if your mind is numb from doing anything else but making bubbles until you are out of breath. Then you pause and do it one more time (again). The Read more

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  • Failure-fearing culture

    Failure-fearing culture

    School’s industrial, scaled-up, measurable structure means that fear must be used to keep the masses in line. There’s no other way to get hundreds or thousands of kids to comply, to process that many bodies, en masse, without simultaneous coordination. And the flip side of this fear and conformity must be that passion will be Read more

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jessa

Reflections on becoming

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