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The “ah-ha” moment.

December3

I’m having what I hope is the first of a series of “ah-ha” moments related to my direction both educationally and professionally. I’ve long had difficulty wrapping my brain around the right words to describe what it is that drives me — what it is I’d like to do with my graduate degree(s) once I earn it (them).

Character Education.

It’s so simple in retrospect, but that is the phrase I was seeking that describes — at least in part — what it is that I will do. While most of the resources I find on a first glance are related to children’s education, I want to work on something broader, and include education of the self (knowing yourself, accepting yourself, etc.) as part of my ideal.

Babbling…just needed to get this down while I’m frantically trying to get my first assignment(s) done.

Amazing how the right people happen to fall into my lap. My first professor has a specialty in character education, and as I looked through his notes, I saw my path. Just needed a signpost, darn it.

posted under direction, feed my brain

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Allison
Los Alamos, NM
After a childhood of immersion in my family's religious tradition, I hit college and my first true experience with the question, "why?" Why did I believe as I did? If I thought about it, I had no idea. So, I spent the next ten years not thinking about it.

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Once I hit 30, I began asking myself that question all over again. A few years later, I woke one day to realize that I simply didn't believe. For many reasons, I am a much happier (and more emotionally healthy) person having let go of god. There are still days that I wish god did exist. It would be a relief to relinquish responsibility to a greater power.

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But, even better, I can see life for what it is, and work with reality. That's more powerful than any god could hope to be.