when i take a vacation to San francisco and LosAngeles, i miss my students! coming back sick and stressed reminds me why i do this, why i love this, and how it feels for students to be absent, stressed, or sick

the house of happiness is built slowly, steadily, by focusing on good things in life. negative things will always be there, ugly things tend to steal our attention very easily, BUT how can you fill your bag by focusing on more beautiful things?

freedom can be a choice, just like imprisonment. whether you listen to yourself, or those around you, can make you feel trapped in your thoughts, unable to make the choices that are truly good for you...

why do people avoid doing the right things they KNOW are good for them and they plan on, and do the things that aren't right or helpful?!?! simple: comfort, energy conservation. simple solution: love yourself, and accept that things are hard. stop wasting energy fighting, and GET DOWN TO IT.

the audio is unbalanced in this episode because moses was talking from his feet, and GENIUS ensues. forgive the varying levels of sound, i thought we got some SERIOUS knowledge from him it's well worth the volume changes. 

thoughts are a funny thing... your brain generates way more of them that we can make sense of, but can we practice turning it off?

with this conversation, rutherford and Moses talk to 5th period and arrive at the 2 types of happiness, a wild and meaningful tangent. 

there are so many things that make our lives rich, if we look for them. money is fake, yet useful, but experiences with loved ones and simple things we are lucky to have can help us cultivate gratitude in small ways that build and build...

recently i've been trying to let nature give me what i need, and learning to be the student in nature...

this is a very important episode to me, i had rough day and by the end of this meditation I actually lost myself and my words, if you listen close you can hear me not quite making sense at the end. at some point, words fail :)