Southern California Teacher News

Two groups of senior adults practice TCC on a continuing basis with me each week. About six months ago a group member gave me a T-shirt that had been designed for WATER WAYS, a workshop for children at the Point Loma Arts Academy in San Diego–a church affiliated program aimed at nurturing individual creativity. I’d like to share the quote on the T-shirt and a couple of quotes that appeared in the printed workshop program.

WATER WAYS

(quote on the T-shirt)

“The world turns softly–not to spill its lakes and rivers.
The water is held in its arms and the sky is held in the water.

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“Ocean–Where the land ends, and even older world begins
Here, limits disappear.”

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We are standing waves
each one of us.
Our bodies are not containers
for the water inside of them.
It is the water that holds
our bodies together.

It seems to me that the children who participated in this program were very lucky, indeed!

Also, I shared Sr. Antonia Cooper’s paragraph about Honoring (p. 31, VFJ March 1994) with my students at San Diego State University’s extension program. At the end of the class one of my students shared another way to honor each other’s presence.

NAMASTÉ –When you are in your heart and I am in mine, we are not only one with each other but with the universe in light, love and truth.

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Tais Hoffman, San Clemente, CA: I’m keeping quite busy with all my classes. I just returned from four days in Palm Springs doing classes at a spa there. The main thing is that I’m having lots of fun!