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I am passionate about education.  I believe that the main mission of education should be to spark in students a desire to be a life-long-learner.  Education is more than English, science and math.  Education needs to inspire students to educated themselves – ongoing, voluntary and self-motivated.  Students who understand how to learn and how to apply what they learn, students who love to learn and who are motivated to learn for themselves enhance social skills, become active citizens, develop personally, and become self-sustainable and employable.

Education must think “outside the box” to create life-long-learners.  Education curriculum needs to include the arts – music, art, drama and dance. The benefits including  these subjects in course catalogs far out weighs the costs of providing them.  The benefits of a fine arts education include better grades, higher standardized test scores and higher educational attainment, attending school more regularly and a higher self-concept.  The…

I will admit.  I have lived many years not understanding that inner peace is my choice.

“Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with it.” – Unknown

A Warrior develops inner peace.

I’ve had my share of ups and downs, disappointment and sadness. Perhaps I didn’t believe that peace was possible… at least not in this life.  Peace was something for someone else.  Not me.  I think I was stuck.  I was stuck in the thinking that peace was not possible when there seems to be some drama, some problem, some stress hanging around.  All the negative stuff in the world, in the news, in the community seemed overwhelming.

I found my heart grieving.

I found it hard to control how I felt, to control my own emotional state.

I really did want to release all conflict in my life.  I…

I am afraid that we, as adults, have not fully prepared our teens to be adults.  I am more and more aware the we have not created Generation XYZ.  We have created Generation Lacking.  I’m not talking about lacking in material things.  In fact, having so many material things has contributed to a lack of real life skills… skills that could save them in adulthood, even from a impending Zombie invasion.

Some to the most popular television series for young adults and teens today focus on what would happen if society were to face utter destruction. Zombies.  How would you survive if you had to hunt or gather or grow your own food, find fresh water, live without electricity or all your electronic devises?  I know I would be fine.  I don’t mean to brag, but I’ve got skills.  The truth is that most of the kids who love these…