Category Archives: Passing of Wisdoms
The Wishes for a First-Grader
Intrinsic or extrinsic motivations of learning in children here, translated… That day, there was a seminar at my son, Sky’s school, the topic was on the children’s problems in learning. The lecturer had the background of psychology, and she’d, explained … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Perspectives, Beliefs, Education, Experiences of Life, Lessons of Life, Methods of Education, Instructional Technologies, Passing of Wisdoms, Philosophies of Life, Positives of Life, Purpose of Education, The Passages in Life, Values of Life, Words of Experts
Tagged Helping Children Find the Motivations to Learn, Motivations for Learning in Children
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Listening to the Oceans
The healing powers of, one of Mother Nature’s wonders: the oceans, a great place to sit and meditate, translated… After the coldest time of the year, slowly, I’d, returned back to the seaside, listening to the oceans. Looking out into … Continue reading
Posted in Experiences of Life, In a Meditative State, Lessons of Life, Overcoming Obstacles in Life, Passing of Wisdoms, Philosophies of Life, Positives of Life, Properties of Life, The Passages in Life
Tagged a Place to Go to to Be Calm, a Place to Go When You Need Some Peace & Quiet, an Escape from Your Reality
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Father, Remembered, a Poem
How wisdoms come with, age, translated… The Moments that Felt Too Real Came & Went I’d Owned, Too Many to, Count Those Features After the Rain The Hills in the Memories The Species of Locally-Grown Mangoes The Tracks of the … Continue reading
Truth or Dare, a Lesson on Ethics in the Courthouse
The conversations from a trip they took as a whole family, with the mother being a court justice, the father, an attorney, and two children who are “groomed” in the legal backgrounds of their, upbringing, translated… During the New Year’s … Continue reading
Posted in Beliefs, Conversations with a Child, Education, Experiences of Life, Interactions of Parents & Childlren, Lessons of Life, Methods of Education, Instructional Technologies, Passing of Wisdoms, Philosophies of Life, Properties of Life, Purpose of Education, the Learning Process, Values of Life
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The Air, My Friend
The column by Jimmi Liao, on not realizing one’s own, potentials to become, translated, by me… Home, Sank into the Oceans. But I Can’t Move, so I’d Become, Home-Less, and Can Only Learn to, Breathe, as Fishes Would, Learn How … Continue reading
The Dramatics of Life
A movie on elderly caretaking, that made the writer connect to the characters’ experiences, and what the writer came to understand, about life, and growing older, translated… Seventy-three days after my mother passed, my older brother wrote on FB of … Continue reading
Posted in Elderly Caretaking, Experiences of Life, Issues Surrounding Long-Term Care, Lessons of Life, On Life & Death, Passing of Wisdoms, Philosophies of Life, Properties of Life, The Passages in Life, Things that Came Too Late in Life, Values of Life
Tagged Movie on Getting Along with One's Own Aging Parents
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A Diary Exchange
How her middle school instructor became a role model, a mentor to her in life, and led her on the path of being an educator too, translated… There’s, that letter-sized notebook lying inside my desk drawer quietly, I’d flipped open … Continue reading
Exactly Why We Embrace the Good AND the Bad of Life
Conversation of a father and his son here, on the, many, “flavors” of, life, translated… I: Can you, get through all the different “tastes” of life? Summer: Surely I can! I: Plums? Summer: I often had that! I can actually, … Continue reading
Posted in Connections, Conversations with a Child, Education, Experiences of Life, Interactions of Parents & Childlren, Lessons of Life, Methods of Education, Instructional Technologies, Passing of Wisdoms, Philosophies of Life, Positives of Life, Properties of Life, The Passages in Life, the Process of Life, Values of Life
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Life, the Obstacle Course 