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I was just talking to a friend who has worked as an administrator in Compton and other places. We were discussing middle school kids and the best course of action with the really tough nuts to crack. I told him about my summer and the 8th grade classes I labored through and [...]
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A therapist told me, “The thirties are a time when you grow into your own skin.” and that was healing to me at the time. I had just turned 30 and was seeing her for depression and cognitive issues I was having. (people are saying … eeek, Damien is finally revealing things, well [...]
In the field of mental health, there is an important term called “triggers.” These are events or items that bring us to harmful lows of depression or the extremes or rage, mania, despondency etc. Financial problems are some of the most common triggers I hear from people with mental illnesses and that I [...]
I feel like everything is in a holding pattern. It’s Summer still yet the wind has a chill. The trees I walk underneath every day sound like locusts. Everything is abuzz with change and getting ready to do so. If we could learn to appreciate and embrace change. Did you [...]
“How fragile we are.”
Sting
A single word can add value to your life. In college I read that in a book and tried it out. I bought a pack of 3×5″ cards on sale and searched my mind and dictionary for words to concentrate on. This had a profound impact on the anxiety and [...]
“We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.”
-Spider Robinson
Some of us are traveling in limousines, others are at the freeway on-ramp with cardboard signs. Regardless of the means, we are going from a point a to a point b every day of our lives. It is [...]
Did you ever wake up one day to realize your best friend is an Emmy award winning songwriter and millionaire and you teach 4th grade in the inner city for kids that only sometimes get what you are saying? Some of you may know this but I worked at making it with my tunes [...]
So much can be said about the way our minds scientifically bend around electronic mail. Email is impersonal. It is interpreted largely by the receiver and is not determined by the intent of the writer. I know this from personal experience on both ends. I have written emails that people reacted [...]
This post is reflection on the first school day of 2008-2009 schoolyear:
The wierdest this today was looking in the mirror. Let me explain: When a schoolyear starts for a teacher there is a long routine of tasks you must do. You have to get the room ready and make the classes with your grade level [...]
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