Xylophone - One Note Counts -picture by Diane Frymire ©2009
WK2 Reading - I am a contribution! - Michael Melvin
Thursday, June 10, 2010
We often go through life measuring how well we have done, if we succeed or fail. After reading “Being A Contribution,” I think we should focus on what we can and have added to the lives of others. As a teacher we’re so focused on meeting federal and state standards that we miss the point of teaching. I would rather contribute to the live of my students and build them up. Today, I will be a contributor in the live s of my students, they are not numbers. They’re people who desire to have a purpose and goal. In my own life I will do differently, I spend so much time over working myself teaching, grad school and running a business. How do I find time for me, family and friends? What am I contributing to their lives? I even found myself complaining more, because of stress. But, if I just focus on contributing to whatever I’m doing then I still have done more. Don’t get me wrong it feels good to accomplish goals and live your dreams, but it’s not worth unneeded stress or heart-attacks.
The author impressed me when he related to his life and marriage, he’s will to look at himself and not point out the mistakes of others. Which is evidence of being a contributor, than a person that is self center.
1 COMMENT
DIANE FRYMIRE
@Michael
How wonderful to see yourself as a contribution to life! Standards and difficulties within school systems can never block out what we really do to contribute to the betterment of our students' lives.
I appreciate your positive contribution to the group in the short time I've know you. Thank you for contributing to me! Three cheers for heart-attack free!
Saturday, June 12, 2010 - 02:33 PM
Wk2-1 DB Quickie: CD Ownership, Music Sharing or Spontaneous Listening-Dedra Thornton http://fsodtapblog.blogspot.com/
ReplyDelete@Diane Frymire:
Thanks Diane for reminding me of the different types of ‘wax’ from days gone by. I remember the steps to playing a record. First you had to make sure you set the record player to the correct type of disc, then you carefully took the record out of the sleeve, blew it (although I am not sure I believe it really had an effect on the play), cleaned the needle, put the record on the spindle (w/ hole adjuster if necessary) carefully put the needle on the record and THEN you got to hear the song! Careful not to dance to close so as not to scratch the record!
My taste mirror different episodes and chapters in my life. There was one point were I was only listening to Christian music and was not quite sure what to do with all the other music I’d collected over the years. I soon grew out of that and found myself into big band, eclectic jazz, instrumentals, alternative music of various sorts.
My brother has the LP converter and it is great (he works for Delta and thus got it on Skymall.com also!)
I found that the best way to store your music digitally is to have a general place to copy or download your songs (your music folder) and also copy into iTunes or others and make playlist. Playlist do not save if your computer crashes. Song downloads do.
Phantom of the Opera…how does it move you?