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She has ants
In her pants.
Restless thoughts
Writing plots.
No surprise
Her brain fries,
Daily grind
Flying blind.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: restless in 19 words
Her Ants
learning
The Brain As Explained By Kids
Sometimes a resource comes along that distills complex concepts so they are instantly understandable in both theory and practical applications. The three minute clip below is one.
The children in the video do an excellent job explaining the brain’s structure, function, and response to fear. They detail what fear reactions can look like in behavior, how fear affects processing, and why it is so important that we understand how behavior is, in essence, communication.
It is a brief yet fantastic resource. I hope you watch. I hope you comment. I hope you share.
Children often make great teachers. These kids certainly do! Well done, everyone!
For detailed information on the ways fear and trauma affect language, development, behavior, and communication, go to: Communicating Trauma.
Also check the Resources and Trauma and Development pages as well as the Book Chapters and Articles page on this site for additional information and resources.
For information on the organization that produced the video above, go to: Trauma Recovery Centre
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This Little Light
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
This little light
That shines
This little light
So fine
This little hand
Aglow:
May your wonder
In wonder
Grow.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Lights
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Plumb The Depths
Photo: Ofir Asif
Explore the vistas
Still unseen
Below the concepts
Left to grasp
As depths of thoughts
Plumb deep
The mind
And Spirit knows
What to redeem.
For The Daily Post
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And Suddenly
Photo: Atara Katz
“And suddenly,” she said,
“Life is not simple anymore.
Or was it never
And I just did not seem
To know?”
For The Daily Post
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A Claim To Being
Photo: Atara Katz
In every day
There’s room for
Gentle lectures
About living.
No scolding.
No critic.
Just a voice
To give
Some space,
A softened claim
To being.
For The Daily Post
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Know Everything
Photo: Atara Katz
“How did you learn how to know everything?” she asked.
“I don’t think anyone knows everything,” I responded, only half-attending. A siren from a fire-engine distracted me. The driver leaned on the horn. Someone must have not given the emergency vehicle the right of way.
“But how did you learn how to know everything?” she insisted.
The First Grader’s tone brought me back to full attention. She hung her big brown eyes on me.
“You mean, how do people work on knowing more and more?” I tried.
A shadow of a frown passed over the small visage, then the girl seemed to decide this not-at-all-what-I-asked-about-reframe is as comprehensive as this adult in front of her can probably muster at the moment. She nodded.
“Different people may have different ways of learning,” I replied, “but for me, I like finding out new things. So I observe and try to listen. I read a lot, and I ask plenty of questions …”
“… you do ask a lot of questions,” she interrupted. “But sometimes I think you already know the answers.”
I grinned. “Sometimes I do … And sometimes,” I teased, “I think you know the answers to your questions, too …”
For The Daily Post
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New To Me
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
As every day rolls in
So clearly new to me
I realize the ever changing
Neophyte I am to life
And still will be.
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Re-Cornered
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
I love this photo of an upside down house in Europe for its genius and exactness, but also for how it challenges our orientation and leads almost everyone to tilt their head ‘to see it better.’ Are the corners of the ‘roof’ still peaks of gables, or do they now make the bottoms of “V”s? If you look out from these windows, will the world itself be upended? How do we define up from down, right from wrong, vision from illusion? How cemented are our views about what is and what could be? Are we willing to paint ourselves out of the corners of our mind where we’d comfortably assumed we knew all that was to know, only to realize a whole world still awaits in readiness to shake our understanding?
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Be An Apprentice
Be an apprentice
In your own life.
We are all beginners.
Novices
Of our own path.
Training
To decipher
The evolving codes
Of heart
And mind.
Students of
A universe
Where the glitter
Of conflict
Blinds the rookie
From seeing
The reality
Of
Love.
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Na'ama Yehuda 
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