MAC Week 4: Reading Post
I thoroughly enjoyed this book from cover to cover with the exception of the chapter entitled...becoming the board. This chapter made me feel so conflicted with accepting that you are a part of what happens in your life instead of being a victim. I can see this being true or okay was somethings. There is the phrase "people cause their own drama" but I don't believe that this applies to all situations. Sometimes bad things can just happen.
In my continued reading, the story of the artist Alice Kahana really pulled at my heartstrings. Anyone can think about what they have seen in movies and pictures about the situation she was in with her little brother, but when I had just graduated high school I went backpacking through Europe and my friend and I chose to visit both Auschwitz while in Poland. I can only imagine how that last thing that she said to her brother changed her "vision" after going to that place. It is a moment in my life that I would never forget.
At the end of that same chapter (11), the words Marianne Williamson wrote made me cry. That is being printed and going not only in my classroom but in a frame in each of my children's rooms to remind them that they need to shine.
In my continued reading, the story of the artist Alice Kahana really pulled at my heartstrings. Anyone can think about what they have seen in movies and pictures about the situation she was in with her little brother, but when I had just graduated high school I went backpacking through Europe and my friend and I chose to visit both Auschwitz while in Poland. I can only imagine how that last thing that she said to her brother changed her "vision" after going to that place. It is a moment in my life that I would never forget.
At the end of that same chapter (11), the words Marianne Williamson wrote made me cry. That is being printed and going not only in my classroom but in a frame in each of my children's rooms to remind them that they need to shine.
My Response:
1 comments:
Kimberly DuranMar 21, 2012 05:45 PM
Stephanie,
I am with you on enjoying the book from cover to cover, I have actually started to re read some chapters, ones that I thought would be most beneficial to my co-workers so that I could share at our next staff meeting.
I agree with you as well that sometimes "bad" things DO just happen. This is something that is so hard to accept and so difficult for kids to understand especially I think. They always tend to blame themselves or dwell on the why me aspect of bad situations. Your trip to Auschwitz sounds like it was amazing, I had a similar experience when I visited an old concentration camp site. It's like you could still feel all that had happened there.
Thanks for all that you have shared this month and for the past year we have been on this journey.
I am with you on enjoying the book from cover to cover, I have actually started to re read some chapters, ones that I thought would be most beneficial to my co-workers so that I could share at our next staff meeting.
I agree with you as well that sometimes "bad" things DO just happen. This is something that is so hard to accept and so difficult for kids to understand especially I think. They always tend to blame themselves or dwell on the why me aspect of bad situations. Your trip to Auschwitz sounds like it was amazing, I had a similar experience when I visited an old concentration camp site. It's like you could still feel all that had happened there.
Thanks for all that you have shared this month and for the past year we have been on this journey.
