REACTIONS: May the force be with you.

Reactions:  Forces of nature define our environment and prescribe our actions. Newton’s third law of motion explains that ‘For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.’ His explanation of factors like gravitational, electrical, and magnetic force – enables navigation and movement through our physical world. Applying this reference to emotional forces might do […]

Words to Choose – Words to Use

What can we say when words are hard to find?

Why are the most important words we need to share, sometimes the hardest to find? It’s not because we lack knowledge. The dictionary is just as full of words today as it was last week, or in the last century. In fact, we make up new ones all the time – to fit our growing […]

Contact: Part 2

Why Give Them Something To Talk About ?

Our volunteer stood silently, facing the class with a military stance: Attention! He avoided eye contact, and put his ‘poker face’ on. He waited. Sixty seconds later he breathed a sigh of relief, smiled, and sat down. I had asked students if it was possible for two people to be in sight of each other, […]