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what is maturity exactly? who decides what is mature? are there different levels of maturity depending on your age or should it be based on your experience?


after discussing this topic with some peers, they say that maturity is...


-patience


-humility


-perseverance


-confidence


-making a decision and standing by it


-making informed decisions


-direct communication (actual face to face or phone call instead of e-mail or text)


-facing challenges without complaint


-thinking about others more than yourself


-taking care of the things one is responsible for


-self-awarenss and reflection



however, as of late, I have been witness to particular situations in which grown mature adults either define maturity in different ways or have forgotten that they are/or should be practicing mature things...maturity to them could be any number of things. Maturity could be...

-throwing the clear celophane and silver wrapper of a cigarette pack on the ground and stating that someone better clean up this mess


-or-


-texting information that is essential to someone else's life such as I'm moving out and infering that texting is a clean break or a sufficient way to establish a dialogThese fantastic bouts of maturity allow me to think about myself not that hard as an only child but to also reflect on how my decisions are affecting myself and the people around me? What actually separates us from animals...relationships, empathy, memory? But within the questions, I find answers to other life follies such as why the kids of today are so extremely rude and disrespectful.

shoes...the latest

if you're interested...here are my newest pieces...you think I would have done more with a week off...

one last hurrah

what would the last day before spring break be if...


high school students didn't come back to play basketball in the gym for the last hour until school lets out for the day


7th grade behaves themselves for once and actually get involved in their art projects


exhaustion and overeating overcome everyone at lunch


and Edgar in first grade telling the class that dad has hair on his butt?


Take time to enjoy the moment. Take time to enjoy the second, the minute, the hour, the day, the night. Just take the time.

books to read

Looking for books to read? Check out my book club blog to view and review past and current reads...

http://wbbookclubbers.blogspot.com/

a picture

Journaling yesterday in sixth grade, students were asked:


Explain why you do or do not agree with this quotation: "A picture is worth a thousand words."


Personally, I completely agree or so I thought for potentially no other reason than the scrabble word game in which you rearrange letters of a word to see how many other words you can make. With all of the words/phrases that a picture inspires you to think or say aloud it is almost impossible for those words/phrases not to spark another set of words/phrases therefore technically allowing one picture to be worth a googolplex words. However, when you take all of those words and begin to create new words from those, the words eventually reduce to two...I and a...so then is a picture only worth two words?


On another thought wave, when I see a picture with let's say a lemon, the word lemon doesn't come to mind but rather pictorial references to other lemons I have encountered. The same thing happens when I see the color yellow...instead of clearly viewing the word yellow I tend to reference other things that are yellow. If this is the case with most everyone else, shouldn't the phrase become:


A picture is worth a thousand images?