Ending one year and starting another, a huge beginning . . .
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 7:51 PM
Like any reality it comes as a surprise when finally a year ends only because another year begins. So out 2012 until December 31, one day more here in the Philippines, today being December 30 and come Wednesday, January 1, it is the first day of the New Year, 2013. Imagine 2013, barely two years more before my retirement come July 1, 2015!
So let the New Year come into our lives. May all the luck and good vibes come to each of us fellow teachers. Happy, happy New Year 2013 guys and gals! We are ending one year and starting another, a huge beginning. Let us own it.
Christmas 2012 plus New Year 2013 are huge events-teaching moments. . .
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 7:23 PM
Whether you are young or old, Christmas always brings a colorful ring to it. How much more if you add to it, a new year. This Christmas 2012 plus the New Year of 2013 are indeed huge events therefore huge teaching moments.
You just have to trace back as far as you can to what Christmases bring to every person's life. It offers teaching and learning insights for Christmas makes each one of us a believer of love. However little, we try to share in some way especially to a stranger. Then few days later come the celebration of the end of the year and the beginning of a new year. So resolutions to change for the better are the order of the day . Then little by little we teach ourselves the reality that resolutions are not commandments but only pleas for some kind of desire or motivation to change for its sake for if one does not no one will be most affected except the person concerned.
So this Christmas of 2012 is a prelude to the epiphany of a New Year that can only become better as each heart teaches another to hold on for better things to come.
Followers and readers of Malaybalayan through Teacherallherlife and Elderly Blues & Blows, a very Merry Christmas 2012 and a very prosperous New Year, 2013!
Teachers of all ages, wherever you are: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 4:06 PM
Imagine the gift of time that by now we, teachers all over the world can only attribute to Providence. December 21 was predicted as the end of the world and now it is Christmas Day and few days from now,God we welcome the New Year - 2013! If it is not Divine Intervention then what is. . .
Time is a teaching moment for each person. Like yours truly, I am running out of time since I am already 62 and everything else falls within god's territory as to its extension. Another year, another teaching and gratifying moment from God Almighty.
So young folks out there. Never take for granted the time that seems so long for you to become an adult. Only to realize coming from our perspective that you are the best recipient of a gift of time. Do not hurry up to grow old or become an adult. Savor the time that the elderly keeps on hopingn to have more of. Enjoy your being young.
I am now looking at my children who have grown and I cannot help but cry of gratitude and happiness. I am now enjoying Christmas with them - at 62 years old! Still a teacher but will never be this age ever for few days from now - another year will be upon us, another year for me to be grateful.
Fellow mentors and/teachers alike whoever and wherever you are: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
The massacre in Newtown, Connecticut heralds teachers as heroes but the parents are in grief for their chidren . . .
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 6:13 PM
It is not all the time we hear of teachers easily acknowledged as heroes. The heinous crime against the 5-10 year old children attending pre-school in Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut: 20 beautiful children massacred by a lone gunman, Adam Lanza, is one for the books. It is in the sense that most of the children who were killed were 5-6 years old. Then three (3) teachers were killed. A certain Victoria Soto was one of the first teachers shot while one of her pupils was able to escape due to her heroism. She used her body to shield her pupils which allowed the lone survivor, one of Miss Soto's pupils to run and scape sure death.
CNN narrates in various ways how the massacre happened. In all instances you are left wondering why someone can do such a horrifying thing. This is aggravated by the information gathered that the guns were owned by Nancy Lanza, the other of the shooter, who ironically happened to be the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School. Then you hear some of the parents who did not condemn the shooter and his family and so we are left condoling for all parties: the victims, the parents and loved ones and the perpetrators of the crime.
Fellow mentors, we need not experience what happened in Connecticut. We can go on with our vocation to teach and learn from this sad event that teaching is our way of loving the children and doing our job not merely for financial reasons but as part of your mission-vocation to mankind. Teacher's teacher prays for the fallen teacher-heroes.
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