Write at the top of the page: What am I now free-to?
Then reflect:
What version of freedom have I been taught to settle for?
Where in my life am I still living only in freedom from, and not yet freedom to?
What would it mean to include myself in the future I am building?
What have I been taught to want less of that I may actually deserve more of?
What kind of freedom would allow my wholeness to be fully present?
Close with: In this season, I am claiming the freedom to ________.
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
Empty boxes — shipping boxes, product boxes, even unused storage containers — take up space and get in the way. Remove them from your orbit! Put the broken electronics and unmended clothes and gross old toothbrushes in them and get rid of all of it!
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something
What kind of lotion do you use? I’m old school. As for me and my house, we use Vaseline Petroleum Jelly
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something
Hair accessories, products or tools from two hair styles ago…Maybe it’s a bottle of purple conditioner from your short-lived platinum blond era or the round brush you bought when you decided to cut bangs or those clips you bought when you admitted the bangs were a mistake and set about growing them out. If it’s intended for a hairstyle you no longer have, it’s clutter that’s taking up valuable bathroom storage space.
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something
I love the Op-Ed section of the paper. I believe we all need to write at least one letter on something we’re passionate about in our lifetime. In saying that, I applaud this reader
We have the authority to ban phones in classrooms, but we hesitate to do so because enforcement would require disciplining students who refuse to comply. That discipline could escalate to suspensions for repeated defiance, and school leaders remain deeply concerned about contributing to the “school-to-prison pipeline.”
Similarly, state law allows courts to fine parents for chronic truancy, yet this tool is rarely used, largely due to concerns about racially disparate impacts.
These concerns are well-intentioned, and the desire to avoid racism in school discipline is understandable. But intent and outcomes are not the same. When policies designed to avoid inequitable punishment lead schools to tolerate absenteeism and in-class disengagement, the result is that many minority students miss instruction, fail to master core skills and graduate less prepared to compete academically or in the labor market.
A system that avoids uncomfortable enforcement today but produces predictably worse outcomes tomorrow should be judged by its results, not its intentions. Avoiding disparate discipline cannot come at the cost of accepting disparate outcomes.
