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What’s up this week Work continues on the Schoolyard Habitats at Saint Vincent de Paul and Garfield Primary Schools. Mulching and planting at Saint Vincent, and fence installation will be this week at Garfield Primary. Visit us to find out more about Schoolyard Habitats.
We hosted about twenty 6-7 year-olds at Farmdale Reservior last week. During this No Child Left Inside event, we found wild raspberries, a snake, poison ivy, tadpoles and a really ‘cool’ stream on an 85 degree day! We hope you will consider joining us Friday June 25th and Friday July 2nd 9:30-11:30 to see what we will find! Visit www.believegitm.com or look for the group ‘gitm’ on facebook to see pictures!
A gitm for you “Think Big” I have come to realize that it is truly a blessing to help someone “Think Big”. If you have had a friend really say and mean “Hey, I think you should do that…” you know then what I am referring to. Helping someone Think Big is more than just paying lip service. It means truly considering that this person in your life might have another avenue or path to take.
There is a whole lot of risk in supporting someone in this fashion. For one, it might change the way in which you see them. We are creatures of habit and one thing that really throws us is when a person in our life changes. We might like to think we embrace these things, but even good changes will take us awhile to grow into. My friend, Linda, lost over 100 pounds last year and although the changes were all remarkably wonderful, she often wondered why some of her co workers never commented. This brings up another risk. Supporting another’s Big Thinking may challenge the ways in which we live. Trisha was an old friend of mine who use to hang out with a fast crowd, but about ten years ago, she decided after an almost fatal accident, to find other more purposeful ways to live. These improvements didn’t make her friendships stronger and in fact, she lost most of those fragile friendships.
Embrace Big Thinking in yourself and others…Good things spring from often lofty places.
Denise and Kim |