Lots of ways to consider and topics to explore as you read through the book. Not being one who by nature is introspective - this book did help me think through some of my responses as regulations and closures have affected our daily lives. Please read this book! Reviewed in Canada on June 12, 2020 Verified Purchase At first I was reluctant to read this book. How could it say more than what we are all living through? It did; way more. It made me think deeply about life with the pandemic in ways I hadn't imagined. As the author shared her life with the reader, it was easy to reflect on my own life in very personal ways. I am so glad I read this book! !
Wether you want to respond to the questions with the first thing that comes to mind or reflect all day and journal till the wee hours of the night. The stories and thoughtful prompts give opportunity to look inside yourself. The focus of the book is the pandemic of 2020, but could be used to navigate any crisis. Many of our lives have un-asked for events that leave us wondering if anything will ever be 'normal' again. This book can help. Thought provoking Reviewed in Canada on June 1, 2020 Verified Purchase With the backdrop of Covid-19, Carolyn has crafted a quietly introspective journal that helps one realize their humanness is a shared experience with all, and that expressing and embracing our shared angst is a path toward healing and triumph! I strongly encourage fence-sitters to spend some time with this resource. Various ways to Understand my repsonse to Covid Reviewed in Canada on July 12, 2020 Verified Purchase Carolyn's easy writing style provides you with the opportunity to discover for yourself how you / we have been impacted by the recent Covid-19 pandemic.
We could do well to remember what Mister Rogers taught us with his television program and by how he lived his life. While there are many lessons and takeaways from Rogers, I'm reminded of one anecdote from 1969, when Hartford Gunn, then president of WGBH in Boston, asked Rogers to speak about the importance of public broadcasting shows during a government subcommittee hearing to debate the merits of public television funding. Up to $20 million was at stake, as the Nixon administration wanted to cut public broadcasting's budget to focus on Vietnam War efforts. Rogers defended the importance of his job by distilling the essence of what his show was about in a short, impromptu speech. "I give an expression of care every day to each child, to help him realize that he is unique, " Rogers said to a particularly skeptical senator from Rhode Island. "I end the program by saying, 'You've made this day a special day by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are. '
"And I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service for mental health. " Rogers secured that $20 million by arguing that the ability to recognize and address our feelings and fears is important and worth fighting for. Whether it's about life as a child, life as CMTer, or just life in general, Rogers taught us that whatever difficulties we may face, our experiences should be mentionable — not taboo or stigmatized. That which is mentionable is indeed manageable. Rogers often used this mantra to describe the mission of his beloved children's program. It wasn't a catchphrase he had coined — Margaret McFarland, Rogers' mentor and director of the Arsenal Family and Children's Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, gets that credit. Still, "mentionable and manageable" was a philosophy he wholeheartedly adopted, and one of the great focuses of his program. I believe it's advice that we shouldn't relegate only to children.
To make the data manageable, only motion verbs in the past tense are counted. It began to be apparent that the complexity of planning problem domains required a mechanism that could abstract the domain to make it more manageable. Music from diverse cultural traditions was accommodated and found manageable by the generalist secondary teacher. In order to keep system complexity at a manageable level, the possibility of implementing stable grasps based on actively programmable finger compliance was studied. To move from an a priori discussion to a more concrete illustration, it is useful to consider the interaction of a manageable number of elements. Accompanying such analyses we find stories within stories, plot summaries that present an (often complicated) opera in miniature, making the libretto manageable. Theological arguments required careful defence, whereas to speak only in terms of political stability confined the debate to manageable terms. As the rural economy diversifies and becomes market integrated, weather risk will give way to the more easily manageable business cycle risk.