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"Our fault, and our very great misfortune, is, that we fail to take at regular intervals that survey of our life which must indeed cause us transports of gratitude." |
One Hundred Reasons to be a Keeper:
(from One Hundred Days of Keeping 2024)
1. to look up - expecting Mystery
2. to know the power of a small act sown daily
3. to "change my thoughts"
4. to grow attention
5. to understand my desires
6. to stay on my own page
7. to resist virtual life
8. as a record
9. to meditate
10. to slow down
11. to grow wonder
12. as play
13. as prayer
14. to understand my classroom posture
15. as a sign and a witness - if only to myself
16. to model self-education
17. to capture what I see
18. to understand what I love
19. to care more
20. to become more content
21. to see personality unfold
22. to count the riches of each day
23. the call of paper and pen
24. to remember
25. to hope
26. to live more solitude
27. to connect more with others
28. it is necessary to me
29. for the satisfaction
30. to itemize happiness
31. to mind the Church Year
32. for consistency
33. to lose myself
34. to quiet the inner critic
35. "we pine"
36. for refreshment
37. to change my life
38. neuroscience confirms
39. to be a chooser
40. to break the "rehearsal loop"
41. to limit distraction
42. to distill ideas
43. the serendipity of flipping pages
44. to be grounded in reality
45. for the love of paper
46. to ponder the thoughts of others
47. to invite new thoughts
48. to enjoy imperfection
49. the Grand Conversation
50. for the sake of stories
51. to become more habitual
52. to understand human nature
53. to allow time for observation and gestation
54. to expand my vocabulary
55. to copy good writing
56. to admire design
57. to fail
58. to begin again
59. to draw more
60. to live with questions
61. to see the world more sacramentally
62. to listen with the heart
63. fulness of life
64. for educational healing
65. to turn to the Supreme Educator
66. to experience the "method of non-encroachment"
67. to have a growth mindset
68. for self-compelling power (fortitude)
69. to learn Ourselves
70. to choose more, react less
71. to slow the "virus of technique"
72. to knock on the door of a larger room
73. to practice looking for Light
74. to fast from social media
75. as ballast
76. to see patterns
77. to trace the "ancestors and progeny" of ideas
79. our "duty of praise"
80. to return to "the enthusiasm of childhood"
81. to "study to be quiet"
82. to become a revolutionary
83. to think for ourselves
84. to understand the times
85. to "read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest"
86. to Practice the Presence
87. to put fewer obstacles in anyone's way
88. to gather substantives
89. for self-direction
90. Monet painted Rouen Cathedral 30+ times
91. to be with my students
92. for the love of pencils
93. to stay curious
94. to discover eco-systems
95. to discover my "own little piece of brotherly work"
96. to be more intentional
97. to care for what has been given
98. to have more modes of expression
99. to "kick at the darkness"
100. to become a better teacher
1. to look up - expecting Mystery
2. to know the power of a small act sown daily
3. to "change my thoughts"
4. to grow attention
5. to understand my desires
6. to stay on my own page
7. to resist virtual life
8. as a record
9. to meditate
10. to slow down
11. to grow wonder
12. as play
13. as prayer
14. to understand my classroom posture
15. as a sign and a witness - if only to myself
16. to model self-education
17. to capture what I see
18. to understand what I love
19. to care more
20. to become more content
21. to see personality unfold
22. to count the riches of each day
23. the call of paper and pen
24. to remember
25. to hope
26. to live more solitude
27. to connect more with others
28. it is necessary to me
29. for the satisfaction
30. to itemize happiness
31. to mind the Church Year
32. for consistency
33. to lose myself
34. to quiet the inner critic
35. "we pine"
36. for refreshment
37. to change my life
38. neuroscience confirms
39. to be a chooser
40. to break the "rehearsal loop"
41. to limit distraction
42. to distill ideas
43. the serendipity of flipping pages
44. to be grounded in reality
45. for the love of paper
46. to ponder the thoughts of others
47. to invite new thoughts
48. to enjoy imperfection
49. the Grand Conversation
50. for the sake of stories
51. to become more habitual
52. to understand human nature
53. to allow time for observation and gestation
54. to expand my vocabulary
55. to copy good writing
56. to admire design
57. to fail
58. to begin again
59. to draw more
60. to live with questions
61. to see the world more sacramentally
62. to listen with the heart
63. fulness of life
64. for educational healing
65. to turn to the Supreme Educator
66. to experience the "method of non-encroachment"
67. to have a growth mindset
68. for self-compelling power (fortitude)
69. to learn Ourselves
70. to choose more, react less
71. to slow the "virus of technique"
72. to knock on the door of a larger room
73. to practice looking for Light
74. to fast from social media
75. as ballast
76. to see patterns
77. to trace the "ancestors and progeny" of ideas
79. our "duty of praise"
80. to return to "the enthusiasm of childhood"
81. to "study to be quiet"
82. to become a revolutionary
83. to think for ourselves
84. to understand the times
85. to "read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest"
86. to Practice the Presence
87. to put fewer obstacles in anyone's way
88. to gather substantives
89. for self-direction
90. Monet painted Rouen Cathedral 30+ times
91. to be with my students
92. for the love of pencils
93. to stay curious
94. to discover eco-systems
95. to discover my "own little piece of brotherly work"
96. to be more intentional
97. to care for what has been given
98. to have more modes of expression
99. to "kick at the darkness"
100. to become a better teacher
