A Journal of Personal Exploration, Reflection and Discovery
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The Rolling Stones
You can't always get what you want, but, if you try, sometimes you just might find, you get what you need.
What are the key words in this sentence? Circle them. What word is repeated 6 times? Write that word and then the verb that follows it. ________________-_______________ ________________-_______________ ________________-_______________ ________________-_______________ ________________-_______________ ________________-_______________
These are simple words most 1
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Think about the songs that speak to you…... follow the beat of your own drummer.
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As high tech as the world of personal communication is, it still relies on the written word to transfer thoughts and ideas. Writing a sentence solidifies a thought as well as records it so to be available for review in the future. Significant Sentences provides exercises facilitating the combination of “your personal spirit,” quiet reflection and your past experiences to come together and produce sentence that is recorded or `saved'. Using paper and pencil, keystroke and screen or even your smart phone, use Significant Sentences as a personal journal or a way to reach out using social media tools like Facebook. “Blog” or “tweet” your moments of discovery. How we write and transmit ideas is vastly changing but it still comes down to words conveying thoughts and emotions. These exercises can serve as a connection between teacher and student, speaker and audience, cyber audience or soul to soul. By sharing stories and ideas about your interpersonal life electronically or on paper, the individual may discover hidden writing talents, a gift for poetry, blogging or tweeting. Your reflections may become a poem, song or school essay. The variety and quantity of questions in each exercise are designed to spur the writer on by providing some starting point and giving some direction. Significant Sentences can be the catalyst for internal retrospection. Writing can reveal the negative as well as the positive. That is the cathartic joy and challenge. Facing those negatives or seeing them more clearly can be exactly what you need to conquer them. Trust yourself that good can be derived from recording your thoughts and reflections, and the connection with the self is the key to personal enlightenment. May you find hidden treasures and truth within?
About the Author
I have always been very introspective. I have taken a great deal of time to ponder the significance of my existence, evaluating the cause and effect of previous life experiences. Wondering is it nature or nurture that has made me how I am. From early childhood, school and sports friendships, family, love, marriage, fatherhood and faith all vital in creating who I am today. The classic questions of self reflection, “who am I and am I who I am supposed to be?” But I wasn't really getting anywhere. Those questions were just too grand and daunting. As a Catholic high school teacher my classroom was a laboratory for development of the mind. As a coach, the sports field was the lab for the body. The third element to the Catholic educational formula is of course the ever illusive spirit. As a firm believer in the Socratic Method and the importance of knowing thyself I began each class period with quotations and questions that provoked thought and emotion. The positive impact and reception from the teenagers in my care urged me to continue to generate lessons of that type. Each time I spoke to my class, I found myself revealing and confessing more my life experiences. Each time the connection to the students grew more powerful. My spirit and the answers to my questions were emerging. From this came the concept of Significant Sentences. Producing a book of Significant Sentences is a fulfillment of a promise I made to my classes as well as myself. My message is simple, my passion is great, my words… I hope significant.