{"id":109,"date":"2020-10-06T15:37:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T15:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livfully.org\/wordpressblog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2020-10-06T15:37:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T15:37:16","slug":"school-bells-ringing-students-are-singing-maybe-the-blues-but-that-can-spur-creativity-lets-hope-theres-joy-and-jazz-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livfully.org\/wordpressblog\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"School Bells Ringing, Students Are Singing (maybe the blues but that can spur creativity&#8230;) Let&#8217;s Hope There&#8217;s Joy and Jazz too!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s to a special September to remember 2020&#8230; Everything a bit different for &#8216;going back to school&#8217; but whether part-time or full-time learning in school, at home or some other set-up, wishing all the best for great learning, networking and creating a better world.<\/p>\n<p>After the pause which has the headlines considering &#8216;what could have, should have and would have been better to do in the past&#8217; right along with those same kinds of concerns currently, everybuddy has &#8216;more than enough to think about.&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Having Fun is almost against the law in terms of the &#8216;regular carefree get-togethers, sports, music and more without masks and social distancing&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully early on everyone can be encouraged what they were doing Last Year at this Time, before worrying was a worldwide spectator sport if not personal concern.<\/p>\n<p>Being excited to meet with friends and in groups was a key part of school&#8230;and some of that will happen, along with meeting teachers and seeing more of the community&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So Remember Those Prior September Days&#8230;and &#8216;fast forward&#8217; through the pause of the last six months&#8230;and pick up with the energy of community that was brimming.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck to all the school and community leaders, teachers and parents, bus drivers and custodians and students, families and friends and towns to pull together with that ol&#8217; team spirit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Find creative ways to take care of yourselves to enjoy &#8216;staying clean, safe and tidy&#8217; around others but still eat well, sleep regularly (at night, not during class or even in front of the computer) and basically &#8216;Think Positively!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And as much as math teaches that a negative times a positive comes out negative, consider that two negatives multiplied comes out positive&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s go with that plan..and let pandemics or plandemics be something chirping in the distance like critters at night&#8230; not the main game. Peace, kindness, friendly hellos (being &#8220;Bucket Fillers&#8217; as one book shared at Indian Mountain School promoted as a way to remember everyone has feelings and appreciates being respected&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>If some are &#8216;not there yet&#8217; just &#8216;Act As If (and say trust that they&#8217;ll come round with love from above, eventually&#8230;) as my Mom of many coached us. &#8220;It&#8217;s easy to love your friends, but real growth can come from loving or at least praying for your enemies&#8230;whether you had been friends, family, strangers, co-workers or community members or not&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Many say we can heal the past, with envisioning how things could have gone better and with some magical thinking&#8230;to give the universe and the present some oomph to move in that direction even if mainly in our hearts and minds. Sometimes it can take reality a while to catch up&#8230;but &#8216;Don&#8217;t worry, be happy&#8217; as some of our Reggae wisdom says in song..&#8221;Cuz every little thing will be all right&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s to a special September to remember 2020&#8230; Everything a bit different for &#8216;going back to school&#8217; but whether part-time or full-time learning in school, at home or some other set-up, wishing all the best for great learning, networking and creating a better world. 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