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Gracious to Strangers I’ve experienced what it is like to be a stranger. More than once in my life I was the new kid in the classroom, the new teacher in a school, or the new student in someone’s yoga class.  Nobody who I was and being unknown made me feel awkward, uncertain and vulnerable.…

Relationship to the World Certain people are drawn to living here in North Idaho. They want to live off grid, as far away from as many people as possible and as independent as is feasible. But, no matter how far off the grid we go, how far away we remove ourselves from people, or how…

Staying Corrigible  When I was a public school teacher, I formed a relationship not only with my students, but also their family. I met their siblings, grandparents, great grandparents, parents and in some cases, step parents.  There were a lot of folks connected to just one child. Remembering everyone’s names, their faces and who they…

Relating to the Unrelatable In his book, Think Again, Adam Grant says that we don’t have to be disagreeable just because we don’t agree. Yet, it is easy to get emotionally reactive toward those who don’t think like we do. For example, one person may respect our president while another scorns him. One person may…