Tag: storyitell

  • august.

    … The hummingbird just hovered a bit above eye level from where I was standing. I just watched, mesmerized. I watched for at least two minutes – assuming it wouldn’t linger for long. No cars came, no people walked by. Just me on a corner staring at this hummingbird hovering in the center of two intersecting roads. 

  • storyitell.

    …the author had a strong voice. The strong voice was pushing against a problem. The strong voice was smart, well referenced, and positioned on academic research. If I recall correctly, I listened to another interview with the same author some time later – after the intensity of that initial time period had lessened. Enough time to recognize that pushing against…

  • octopus.

    “How do I desire to show up and express myself?” asked the octopus. July 1, 2023 On Thursday, June 29, I returned to a very green and beautiful Denver, Colorado after being gone for most of the month. I had left town on a very wet Sunday, June 4. It’s always a good experience for […]

  • june.

    The following blog was meant to post this past weekend. I currently am on day three of my trip back to Denver and added an impromptu stop for beignets and a book drop to a Little Free Library at Tulane University. I thought LSU was in Shreveport – my bad. (sidenote: I am sitting in […]

  • trip.

    If you are new to following my blog, I usually post on the weekends. I work in schools and it’s summer break which is kind of like one long Saturday. Enjoy this post on a June Monday… “When I create a time to focus on planning a road trip, all of a sudden the road […]

  • escape.

    Summer road trips prior to 2022 were an escape. An escape from the story I told about the demands of the role I played in a school environment. When I took my own advice, and changed the story I told about the demands, the intensity lessened – it became manageable. Road trips are now an experience.

  • closure.

    Last post for May. I need to put closure to something I began on March 26, 2023 with the post wait. The post wait. includes an introduction to what I intended would be an eight-week series of blogs that would ultimately be a compilation for the highly anticipated 😉 publication: Quiet Time. 8 steps to […]

  • processing.

    How do you define wellbeing?  For me, the word balance is the simplest response.  somewhat-random-rewind ⏪ When I taught Behavioral Health to ninth grade students at Hemet High School in the early 00’s, I was essentially teaching myself first as I made my way through the textbook. Once I could grasp an idea conceptually, I […]

  • herring.

    This post includes resources from multiple content shares and formats.

  • cue.

    An example of how to use MBK in day could start with the cues: shoulders over hips. look up. Now we have Alignment – mind can download into body for present moment awareness. Now we have energy flow: mind space/heart space/belly space/muscles/skin (nervous system). Next, insert the movement: side to side, top bottom, forward back. There are endless combinations (especially…