Learning-About-Life

Today, October 5th, is World Teachers’ Day and the theme this year is: The right to education means the right to a qualified teacher. I’m thankful for all the qualified and unqualified teachers who have been my teachers. In the small, third-world country in which I grew up and was educated, primary school teachers were not “qualified.” There was a Teacher’s College but I’m not sure that many teachers went there. Yet, thankfully they taught us and we learned. They just knew how to teach. ...

[caption id=“attachment_1568” align=“aligncenter” width=“584”] Live Good[/caption] All the epithets in this collage were of interest to me since they were Christmas ornaments I saw in a year-round Christmas tree store. They are the kind of ornaments one buys for the wine-lover on your Christmas list. The addition of “Live Good” is my own idea. This image was on the cover of a journal in a bookstore. It’s funny how certain images and sayings can act as triggers for past events or ideas one may have held at a certain time of life. This is what these sayings about wine did for me. There was a time in my life when I thought that I was Epicurean - a much younger age. I didn’t know much about Epicurus though. It was the “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry” stage. Life was about having a good time. ...