QUESTIONS, CLASS. . . ?

Sometimes the greatest
SCHOOLING
You ever get
isn’t in a School at all. . .

A L L
500 Students from Clarksville Elementary School in Indiana worked with their music teacher over the course of the pandemic school year to create this heartstring pulling music video to showcase their talents and to bring a smile to your Monday Morning Face. . .

The exuberance and enthusiasm of these young singers remind us that they are not the future so much as the very much needed NOW. . .

They remind us that beyond WRITING READING ARITHMETIC there’s a SCHOOLING we all need
and more
NEED TO SHARE
CONSIDER YOURSELF SCHOOLED
TAG
YOUR IT
PASS IT ON. . .

At best.          .          .

I might have met him only once or twice.            .            .

At best.          .          .

I might’ve had the cordial

‘how are you’

‘it’s nice to meet you’

exchanges.            .            .

At best.          .          .

I was nonchalantly looking through Instagram and saw Jake Nicolella’s random photograph of a seemingly ordinary subway ride in New York City with the follow captioned thoughts:

“This world.  Right now.  There are trees turning orange with the fall, and trees that will remain lush year around.  There are old men biding time in the mall food court reminiscing about what was, and teenagers infinitely scrolling, dreaming about what’s next.  Right now.  Existing in this moment.  There are grandmothers, friends, hopes and lessons to be learned.  There are people you will never know, or even think to know, made up of all the same flesh, time, and wonder that brought you to this moment.  Right now.  There are small, enraged men with weapons of war and fear in their hearts.  Compelled to take lives that  were never worth that fear and never theirs to take.  Again and again and again.  The ripple of their actions will cascade pain for generations  Right now.  Fear disguised as patriotism.  Fear sold as justice.  Fear burnt ass red hot fuel to beget more fear.  But right now.  There is also the last car on the M train at 6:58 pm.  There are two men.  There is a mother.  Her seven-month-old baby.  A group of high school students.  There is a shared moment that lets me know that fear has no chance.  That fear has no place here in this moment.  There are eight lives intersecting from different points of origin, heading toward unknown and likely different terminuses, and everything is going to be okay. Here.  Right now.  Everything has got to be okay.”

Being a Caring Catalyst

 means caring enough about others

that you’re always willing to be a pupil as you become teacher.          .          .

No matter who a professor might be,

or what the lesson might be taught,

If you always care enough to be taught

care enough to learn the lessons in the

o r d i n a r y

see what only an unsuspecting other

can show you.          .          .

then you’ll have found the cure for blindness

.        .        .A T      B E S T

Sometimes the best way

to see anything in another way

is through another’s eyes

and then

ONLY    IF    YOUR’S    ARE

O P E N       E N O U G H

to not only see

but  understand
what  you  are  viewing.       .       .
R  I  G  H  T       N  O  W

Thank you, Jake Nicolella

for showing us all that

t      h      o      s      e

who   hold   the   light

prospered from the one

who   supplied   the 
m           a           t           c           h

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How many times have you been asked?

How many times have you asked it of yourself?

How many times have you actually answered it?

How many times have you dared to

L     I     V     E

 I     T   ?

If money were truly NO object.      .      .

What would you do?

Are you Living the life of your dreams

or the life that just feeds a bank account,

a pension, a 401K account,

a mortgage payment,

a water/gas/electric/cable bill,

a   s t o m a c h ?

Do you even believe it?

Doing what you truly love

means that the money will actually follow.       .       .

How many people do you know,

r i g h t  n o w ,

at this moment,

that are actually  l    i    v    i    n    g

the   life   of   their   dreams?

Are   you?

What ultimately keeps you back,

fear of failing,

fear of success,

fear of going bankruptcy,

fear of embarrassment

that others might heap upon you?

If money were no object.       .       .

If failure wasn’t in fact an option.        .        .

Would you.       .       .

would you live the life of your dreams?

What?

How do you know what

T         H         A         T

actually is?

It’s been theorized

that the graduates of 2016

will not have five jobs.     .     .

they will have

S       I       X

C  A  R  E  E  R  S

Psssssssssssssst:

IT   IS   MOST   OFTEN   MORE   THAN   ONE   THING !

Don’t ever subtract your very self to just

A     P  u  r  p  o  s  e
A     M  e  a  n  i  n  g
A     R  e  a  s  o  n
A     D  e  s  t  i  n  y

You   are

P    L    U    R    A    L

not Singular.      .      .

You are NOT just a Success or a Failure.        .        .

You are a succession

of   both

and so many other things

in between those two poles.      .      .

You will never be inspired

to be a Musician

if you are a true Painter,

an Accountant

if you are a Mechanic,

a Teacher

if you are a Rocket Scientist.       .       .

You are    P     L     U     R     A     L

never    Singular; 

Go ahead PICK ONE       .       .

even if it means turning the page.     .     .

or Beginning a new Chapter.     .     .

Starting a new Book.     .     .

or completely shredding it

and writing a new one

with some-not-so-blank

p a p e r

and an inkless  pen.       .       .

It’s   Y O U !

And you.        .         .

You are always worth betting on;

If you can bet,

go    all    in    on    y o u r s e l f.         .          .

A n y     w h i c h     o n e     y   o   u.       .       .