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What Is One Thing You Plan to Do Today that Makes Your Heart Sing?
By
Joan Ball
What do you love to do? Forget practicality. Forget whether you have the time or the money or the education or skills. Forget everything that is on your plate or what is possible. What is that thing that makes your heart sing when you do it? Or, if you are like many people who are…
Some Teaching on Being Teachable…
By
Joan Ball
More honest and transparent wisdom from reader/commenter/friend Andrea in response to On Being Teachable: This Dog Wants to Learn Some New Tricks… I was contemplating your question and looking at the ways in which I am teachable. I started to think of all the things I know and got onto the gerbil wheel in my…
On Being Teachable: This Dog Wants To Learn Some New Tricks
By
Joan Ball
What is it that makes it so hard to remain teachable? Seems like the older I get the more prone I am to pick up a bias or embrace and absolute. This despite both knowing better and making a personal commitment to cast off preconceived notions and see the world through new, childlike eyes. I…
Happy (Bad) Mother’s Day: A Message for the Rest of Us
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Joan Ball
Mother’s Day is upon us. I can’t tell you how many times I approached this Hallmark holiday with a sense of obligation. Both as a daughter and a mother, I frequently found myself feeling put upon as I attended a brunch I didn’t want to go to or wore a macaroni necklace I didn’t want…
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