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Sumo Deadlift High Pulls
As
adults we tend to overcomplicate everything.
When
we approach kids with the awareness that they are our teachers, we become more
present and aware of ourselves. We have to be more present when we follow,
looking and listening, responding to their lead. We don’t fall so easily into
the role of the director of activities, surrendering instead to having no
agenda at all. As we allow our children
to determine the flow of play, they pull us deeper into the mystery of the
present moment. In this magical place, we become innocent again, not
knowing what will happen next and remembering how to let go and focus on the
simple pleasures in life – setting a goal and achieving it.
The greatest discovery any outsider could make about Camden is it's overriding response to failure: If it didn’t work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE).
Every year they pass more laws, hire more police, build more prisons, and sentence more offenders for longer periods-all without moving one inch closer to “ending” crime. If it didn’t work last year or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Every year they spend more money on schools, hoping to “fix” whatever’s wrong with them, and every year the schools remain stubbornly unfixed. Spending money didn’t work last year or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Every year they try to make the criminals go away, and every year they remain with us. We couldn’t shoehorn these criminals back into the “the mainstream” last year or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Maybe its time to TRY something DIFFERENT.
Afterall, IF Camden is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.
Much of my inspiration comes from Daniel Quinn in "Ishmael."
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