Category Archives: Philosophies of Life

Ching, Bravely, Marching, Onward in Her Life, on Live-ing

How despite this woman’s life trials, she’d still, worked her, to make her own way, made her own life, count!  A true inspiration here, translated… Soon Enough, Everybody’s Realized, that Ching is, a Very, Hardworking Employee, and Found that the … Continue reading

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Model Student

How the older generations had been, socialized, versus how we ‘d been, socialized, versus, how this, younger generation of children is, socialized, translated… My coworker shared something of her first-grade daughter’s, after the whole class had voted, she’d won by … Continue reading

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The Visually-Impaired School Instructor, Lee, Helping the Visually-Impaired Students to Find that “Light” in Their Lives

Because this school instructor is visually impaired, he could connect better, and know the needs of the visually impaired students, seeing the problems they may face in their, day-to day life, because he’d, had to deal with them too, off … Continue reading

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Two Cups of Lattes

The times we shared…so precious, especially now, more than ever!  Translated… Beneath the gold-rimmed round glasses, the black eyes shone bright, from within the blue mask came the crisp voice, “The usual, two cups of lattes?”, agilely, worked the cash … Continue reading

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The Questions of the Robot Boy

The experiences of managing, a classroom full of, ill-behaving children, translated… “Why don’t you get angry?”, that special child, slowly moved to my desk, and inquired. I was stumped for a bit.  “Why don’t I get angry?  So, you think, … Continue reading

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Geckos, Roaches, & Others

The encounters in one’s own kitchen, that ended up, enlightening, translated… Suddenly, a gecko appeared from out of nowhere on my walls, don’t know when it came into the house. The huge gecko looked chubby, and would call out every … Continue reading

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Who Will Carry Grandma Around?

On how much the families relied on the help of these foreign hired household helpers to care for the aging elderly population, translated… Today, finally, Dun’s turn came to get the vaccination. As she’d fed grandma, and taken grandma to … Continue reading

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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

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This is How Finland Does its Schools, Stop Testing for Understanding or Levels of Achievements

What we should, lean, towards, in, education, but do we?  HECK no, we’d, returned, back to the, one-test-determines our futures means from before, off of the Front Page Sections, translated… The new curriculum set up in Taiwan stressed the core … Continue reading

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Exercise, a Time of Conversations with Our Own, Bodies

Some of us just, aren’t, agile enough to do sports here, and there’s, no need, to push it!  Translated… We’d often gotten ask, on homeschooling, how do we socialize the kids, without getting them into the groups of their, peers?  … Continue reading

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