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A TEACHERble Moment: The Misconception of Happiness
What’s a common misconception people have about happiness? They tried to sell me happiness today like it was sold out or on backorder.Exclusively available to the ones who have their life in order.I kept ordering a different version of myself I clearly could not afford.Somehow I could not restore.They told me that being happy had… Continue reading
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Today’s TEACHERble Moment Happened 161 Years Ago
161 years ago, on June 19, 1865, freedom finally rang out for over 250,000 African Americans still being held in slavery in Galveston, Texas. Even though slavery had already been declared illegal years earlier, word and enforcement hadn’t made it there yet. Truth be told, not everything changed overnight even after slavery was abolished, but… Continue reading
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Today’s TEACHERble Moment: Not All Growth is Instant
If you could instantly master any skill, what would it be and why? I’ve been sitting with today’s prompt for a minute because I could answer it in two ways. I could give the answer that sounds nice, or I could give the one that actually makes sense to me. I’m going with what makes… Continue reading
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A TEACHERble and Growable Moment
What is one way you have grown this year? This year I learned to prune what once felt like me. To stop watering worries and just let them drift out to the furthest corner of the sea. I decided that I would make a deal and trade old doubts for a steadier seed, and I… Continue reading
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A TEACHERble Moment to My Twenty-Year-Old Self
What is something you wish you could tell your 20-year-old self? You were lesson-planning a lifeyou had not lived yet,writing goals in pen like you would never use or need an eraser. You graded your future too early,marked yourself wrongfor answers you had not learned.Life was the syllabusfull of pop quizzesyou did not quite study… Continue reading