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Tag: Resilience

Posted on July 31, 2021July 29, 2021

Skill and confidence

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.George Herbert, "Proverbs" in The Complete English Works, 275 If your confidence exceeds your skill, you're overconfident. My parents…

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Posted on April 30, 2021April 28, 2021

Resilience

"One stroke fells not an oak."George Herbert Seventeenth century English poet George Herbert collected sayings. This one makes me think of several things: Perhaps the…

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Posted on March 25, 2021March 11, 2021

Anticlimax

anticlimax noun a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events Saturday nights are special at our house. We upgrade the meal, pull out the table cloth and…

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Posted on January 30, 2021February 3, 2021

Busy parents

January is Read Aloud Month for us. Actually, every month is read aloud month--but January is the month we participate in the Read Aloud Challenge--each…

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Posted on January 13, 2021January 12, 2021

Zoom out

Water all over the garage floor. At first I thought it was melted snow from the trash can (one's optimism initially resists the possibility of…

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Posted on January 11, 2021January 7, 2021

It’s too hard

I often tell my children, "Nothing worth doing is easy." I also say, "I like it because it's hard" (or fussy, demanding, challenging, technical, etc.).…

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Posted on November 14, 2020November 12, 2020

Phone fright

I had a paper route when I was in middle school. It was a nice route--close to my house; very kind customers who paid on…

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Posted on October 8, 2020October 8, 2020

Persistence

I've watched a lot of soccer games. The shots taken to goals scored ratio is very lopsided. Yet, the players, somehow, think it's worth the…

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