"Let's Give the Gift of Reading" by Susan Pearl

 I heard something so insightful yesterday while watching a program about children's education. In one of the interviews a person said, " A child learns to read by third grade--then reads to learn.  I thought that was wonderful to know.  I know a famous quote by Einstein says--(paraphrased because I read it years ago but I think it goes something like this)  "...if you want your children to be intelligent read them a fairy tale--if you want your children to be more intelligent read them two fairy tales."

While being at home more with the COVID-19 guidelines let us read to children more and lets help them learn how to read.

I have an opinion that in years to come along with---"a child learns to read by third grade then reads to learn"-- we may, also, say, "I taught children to read and now children have taught me something from what they just read." 

Let's teach children to read every day. It will make a better day for tomorrow in many ways. 

Teach the long and short sounds of the vowels.  Teach the phonetic sound of each letter of the alphabet.  Put them together and watch what happens.  If a child learns how to sound out and read short words today it has been a wonderful day in more ways than one. 

"Learning From Mistakes" by Susan Pearl

 Being kind to myself has become a priority,

It is a change in the way I think.

I can't feel bad about every mistake I make.

It is knowing that I will make mistakes

(everyone makes mistakes)--

We have to take responsibility for our mistakes and have no ill intent before we do something,

 we have to learn to live with what we cannot change and accept the consequences of our actions.

I have to learn to be kind to myself when I make an insignificant mistake

and how to be kind to others when they make an insignificant mistake, and to know the difference.

This is a realistic point of view--because when it come to mistakes we all make them,

In fact, we can learn from them.

Let's learn be kinder to ourselves and to others when making an insignificant and inconsequential mistake.

Sometimes we have to say. "It's not that big of deal and I refuse to feel bad about it.  I did my best and no can ask more than that."

"1000th Blog" By Susan Pearl

 Dear Readers,

When I started my "Pearls Take Time" blog in 2010 I believed through faith it would not fail-

   and that with love it would prevail.

That everything anchored in hope would stay afloat.

I still believe that to be true today.

Today is my 1000th blog and I am very happy and excited about it.

I am looking forward to writing more blogs and even reposting some blogs that have been posted through the years.

Thank you all very much.

I wish you all the very best,

Susan Pearl

"Finding the Happy Medium" by Susan Pearl

 "Overdone"---"Underdone"---where is the "Happy  Medium"?

This is not in reference to food.

What may be "overdone" to one person may be "just right" to another person.

So it comes down to personal preference.

I may like a lots of pictures on a wall.

Another person may like the walls plain with no decorations at all.

That's alright--I'll decorate my walls the way I like them-

   and others can decorate their walls the way like them.

That's fine but if we share one wall how does that work?

Compromise, choices and finding ways of getting along with each other with respect and dignity.

The "Happy Medium" is somewhere in between extremes.

During changing times, circumstances and settings it may appear things are over done or under done.

The "Happy Medium" is "found" when we can agree on a "common ground". 

A "Common Ground" of "believing" that all people are created equal and we "work" towards the good and the benefit of all while "meeting" the responsibility of "protecting" the generations to come.. 

"A Pearl Moment of Having a Laugh Together" by Susan Pearl

I am a spontaneous person who likes routine.

I like to be spontaneous in conversations with wit and humor.

Sometimes the opportunity is there for wit and humor-

   and sometimes not.

It's like that saying, "You can't make it happen"-

You have to be able to recognize it when it does happen 

  and improvise in the moment,

It's like finding the pearl moment when you see it, running with it and seeing where it will go.

This spontaneous style becomes a routine part of a humorous and witty personality.

It becomes fun that is at no one's expense and no one has to pay a price for the good times of others.

There is an "awareness and sensitivity" that does not allow for crossing a line-                                              it may push the envelope but it does not cross the line.

This awareness and sensitivity are the routine parts of being spontaneous-                                                     and both go together hand in hand.

So maybe I am a person of routine who likes to be spontaneous.

 

"I Found the Needle and More" by Susan Pearl

 Last night, before going to bed, I tried to find a needle that I had lost in my chair earlier in the day while working on a craft. I very carefully and meticulously went over the everything in, on and around the chair, (the afghan, the throw plus a few pillows). Then, last but not least, (for sure), I decided to slowly check some creases in the cushion with my hands.  Ouch!!! I found the needle.  The tip of my index finger had been pricked.  I was glad to have found the needle.  I wouldn't have wanted to sit on it.

I wished I could have found it by seeing it but the prick worked fine to find it.  I thought there have been times in my life where I have been shown something by actually seeing it or by being shown it by a mentor showing and explaining it to me.  But there have been other times in life when I have been shown things by pain.  Like the betrayal of someone I held dear.  I was shown how to forgive and how to end a relationship if that needed to be done.  I was shown how not to look back. All these lessons were shown to me by a pain or a hurt experienced by life.  I had to learn to live with what I could not change and not let things or actions or words of others to own me.

So I think that we find things about life and about ourselves both ways---externally and internally.  By being outwardly shown these discoveries and by being shown these discoveries inwardly by pain.

My, all these thoughts came from being pricked by a needle.  Who would have thought it would mean more to me than just discovering the lost needle?  I sure didn't----but it did.  I found the needle and more.

  

"Still Developing" by Susan Pearl

 I woke up during the night.  As I was trying to go back to sleep I decided to pray and thank God for His many blessings naming them one by one.  I thought "Thank you, God, for developing me".

"Whoa"----"Where did that word "developing" come from"???  I don't use that word very often and I don't think I have ever used it about myself since I was 70 years old.  What could be developing about me at this age.  Shouldn't I be developed by now?  Needless to say, I woke up to review my thoughts.

I thought about developing fruit.  That would mean the fruit was maturing.  Maybe I'm still maturing in my concepts, my attitudes and my views and outlooks about life and others.

Then I thought of developing film in a dark room.  I thought that out of the dark can come a current new picture to see.  Maybe through these dark times we will see a brand new current picture about things.  Something we haven't seen, considered or known before.  That picture may still be in the process of being developed to be seen.

I am still in the process of being developed and there is going to be more maturity to come and new pictures of life to be shown.  Seeing these new pictures of life with more maturity may initiate a change of heart for various viewpoints in life   It is exciting to be developing and I just didn't ever think of it that way before.  It is, also, exciting to share this thought of "developing" on my blog.  This is my 996th blog today.  It is a brand new thought about "developing" because I just thought of it during the night.