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    Dom Rocks!

    By katelmoore | April 25, 2009

    Messages that motivated and encouraged me were, “I see you and I like you” and “Hang on. I promise things will get better.” These were almost never directly spoken, but were conveyed through actions and feedback on my writings and my work. I still have a paper that my high school English teacher wrote on during my junior or senior year. I thought it was a light hearted piece about leaving high school and the secrets my locker had kept over the years. He saw through it to the screaming terror that I was engulfed with about the idea of leaving school, the only relatively safe haven I had growing up. On it he said, “Life is both more terrifying and more sublime that you can possibly imagine. Have courage and keep living it.” I wrote to him 25 years late when I decided to become a teacher and told him that I still pull that paper out occasionally to inspire me and calm me down. He was an extraordinary combo of foul-mouth, demanding, eternal caring that I model my practice on (mostly without the foul mouth).

    Topics: Creating a Positive |

    2 Responses to “Dom Rocks!”

    1. tobip Says:
      April 27th, 2009 at 8:39 am

      This is great!

    2. Acai Extract Says:
      April 30th, 2009 at 7:58 pm

      I like your article, but if you can make the font size a little bigger, then the better.

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