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A Holistic Journey

1.Think big.
If I lived the way I’ve come to blog, I’d see some real progress in my life. On unsure terrain those early days, I started with posts that lined up with my interests. Homeschooling, for example. I felt assured I was “doing the right thing” posting the type of things bloggers were putting out. Gradually I tapped into what I was passionate about and the things that fascinated me. Last year, blogging stopped being a train of posts I shot out one at a time, wondering what I’d write about next. Rather than post linearly, I started architecting my blog. I figured how many floors (that is, topics) I would erect in the next six months, going backward to furnish the rooms (with posts for each topic). The blueprinting gave me direction, control, and purpose. But I wasn’t bound to my plans. There were plenty of posts…

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As I stood in the hall of the Bourbon Missouri Elementary School, I noticed papers taped to the wall.

Outside of Ms. Harmon’s first grade class were all the papers of who their hero’s were.

On first thought, one might think that at the age of six or seven they would name a favorite Super Hero. You know, Batman, Superman, or even Spiderman but not so. Not one of the aforementioned characters were to be seen.

One student wrote that her hero was her father because he brought home a deer to eat.

Another wrote how their hero was a doctor who saved their life after the helicopter flight to the hospital.

Still yet, one wrote how his mother saved him from electricity.

No Super Hero’s at all. Each here was a person that the students interacted with each day.

At a first graders age, they understand who true hero’s are to them.

Remarkable.