One compelling reason to do my residency in Oklahoma City was the presence of the Oklahoma RedHawks, the Triple-A affiliate of (God help me) my favorite team in professional sports, the Texas Rangers. As a baseball fan and an English major, I’m all about symbolism, and a residency, to me, feels like the minor [...]
One of the things that’s been hammered into my brain via CPE is the concept of saying “I” when I mean “I.” Seems simple, but you really notice how often you say you when you don’t mean you at all. See what you mean?
At first, this was just kind of an interesting concept. [...]
As I’ve begun to claim my own space, power, and personhood, starting with the idea of self-care, I’ve also reflected on its implications for how I treat others. My thoughts are reflected by the Golden Rule: “do to others what you would have them do to you.” In other words, I should honor [...]
John 5:1-14 (TNIV)
Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the [...]
February 7, 2008 – 10:32 am
One of the most helpful things I’ve learned during this unit of CPE is the Enneagram. Yes, the Enneagram is another personality typing thing, and, yes, I’m familiar with a couple of others. The other systems (Myers-Briggs, for example) are most helpful if you are a directionless college sophomore trying to pick a [...]