trurand's Blog : May 2008

by trurand
Description: Present Moments of Every Day Life
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Always Learning

Posted on May 22, 2008 1:22 PM

Being a volunteer in a Leading to Reading Program is also a benefit not only to the child or person receiving the help, it is also a benefit to the volunteer.

You discover many ways in which different individuals learn. Sometimes it is just by accident that you discover a different type of learning technique.

We learn to read by phonetics, sight, knowing meanings of words only sometimes we haven't seen it in print, so when we read a passage and someone tells us the meaning we know the word right away.

You also learn to read books you haven't even read nor would not normally read because in order to see if the person is reading the book at home, you also need to read it. There are so many excellent books for children of all ages and you learn that our speech patterns have changed in the written word. What made sense once now doesn't make sense until you discover a way of telling the story in the common language. Example Old English Shakespeare to reinventing Romeo and Juliet using words today as you read the old passages. It is so lyrical.

Most important is that it is about the individual who requires our utmost attention and that we are listening to everything they say. Ah! that "New Earth" online class I took for 10 weeks, and that's what volunteering is all about. "Treating others with respect and the attention they need at the time."

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Peace it does not have to Elude Us

Posted on May 21, 2008 6:55 AM

After a discussion yesterday over coffee and donuts and the person said we went through a war and survived and even now people survive through wars and natural disasters.

I read today how Canada is one of the top peaceful countries in the world. I should be swimming right now only I had to put my thoughts down. I find that we take for granted this freedom when we complain about our police and politians and make fun of our military.

They may not be perfect as we should remember that it is also up to us to help in keeping that peace by caring for one another, not becoming jealous of what the other has or contentious.

Yesterday it was reported that Theodore (Ted) Kennedy has brain cancer. In a family that has seen more than its share of calamity. They still made serving one another a number one priority. So anyone who enters that family can not help to take on that responsibility also. Not only do they help each other, they have left a legacy of helping their country.

My point, we SHOULD CARE!!! Before we loose our freedom of speech, our freedom to worship, our freedom as we know it.

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Did You Know

Posted on May 13, 2008 7:06 PM

Did you know that there is much more to this....

Did you know that when I tried to change the preferences: the locale and time zone it keeps going to US English and Central time zone, and gives a message "THERE'S AN ERROR".

I'd like it to be Canada English and US and Canada Eastern time zone.

Did you know joined meant when you actually joined this website.

Oh Why I'm I writing Did you know.,,,

It is silly.:^0

Now to just "Mellow" with a cup of coffee and sit out in the pleasant evening sunset after a day at the PreOp for my father keeping my mom company and doing all the driving. I didn't mind. Now off I go.

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Learned something about U.S.A.

Posted on May 5, 2008 1:08 PM

Watched a bit of the View today and learned that it is NOT the President of the United States that can declare war ONLY the U.S. congress. My question is WHY do so many Americans put down their current President?

There is so much in the world most of us don't realize is going on behind the scenes. You are about to vote for a new President and I wonder will you treat them any better or will the novelty of whom you pick wear off and then give them a difficult time also. A strong country is one that speaks well of its leader. Not making fun or ridicule.

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