Outstanding Minor Highlights in My Life-New Year’s Day

Today on New Year’s Day, while people are making their resolutions, I started a different list, a list of minor highlights in my life, and here they are:

1. When I was teaching school, one day a few of the boys from an all-boy seventh-grade English class came in to class carrying placards saying I PROTEST. I had the boys go up front and tell us what their complaints were. I don’t remember now what they were protesting, but when they had finished, I asked them why they were protesting in 108 because none of the complaints applied to our class. The boys humbly said, “It’s the only place where we could.�

That’s one of the finest teaching testimonials I ever received.

2. When I was in college, I was in a play. I had the role of a drunken old-maid schoolteacher of sex hygiene! I just don’t remember the name of the play this moment. I didn’t have a big part, but it was a great one, as you can imagine. There was a scene where I’m stumbling around and my glasses are half hanging off my face and I must have had a good line to say – because it got a good laugh from the friendly audience, and they gave me an ovation!

I used to go to the University of Iowa Dental School instead of to a private dentist. One of the teaching dentists admired my gums so much, he asked if he could photograph my gums so he could show his classes what good gums look like! He may have put the photograph of my gums into a book, too, if I’m not mistaken. It’s hard for me to be modest over this one!

Note: I think I owe my good gums to the regular use of a Water-Pik® and dental floss.

Tell us about some of your minor accomplishments that hold a place of honor in your heart!

And happy happy New Year! :) :) :)

Posted by Gloria on January 1st, 2008 under these topics
Education, Purely Personal, Godwriting Journal
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Reply from One on January 1, 2008

Senora,

Is that the same type of Water-Pik® that you once tried to send to me? You certainly have a smile to match your outstanding gums!

Once I had the opportunity to be in the presence of a yoga master. Yogiar Ramaiah was doing a Kriya yoga initiation which was over a week and then there was a Kriya yoga sangum, where a group of 50 or less people were to stay together. During the time there were calls for volunteers to assist Yogiar with various duties. Everyday there would be stories of how those who had volunteered made so many blunders and got scolded by Yogiar. One day I volunteered and I did not get scolded. I may have been the only chap who didn’t get a scold’n.

Reply from Jacqueline on January 1, 2008

Oh Santhan, You are so cute!!
So what is my accomplishment?
Hmmmmmmm.
Gloria said I was a good hostess, so that’s one.
Jacqueline

Reply from Gloria on January 1, 2008

Jacqueline, not only did you make all your guests really comfortable and well-fed, you had the zip to invite friends over for New Year’s Eve! That is quite an accomplishment.

Dear One, your Kriya Yoga teacher must indeed have been a wise man to quickly recognize the perfection you truly are.

What I had wanted to give you before was an electric toothbrush. I know when I first heard about them years ago, I thought what a silly thing — who needs an electric toothbrush! How lazy, just another thing to waste money on, I thought. I discovered years later that one minute of electric brushing is worth four minutes by hand, and I sure don’t have the patience to brush my teeth for four minutes.

The Water Pik has 4 extra colored tips so each person can antiseptically use the same Water Pik. This will be available on the Motor Home Trip. And if you don’t tease me too much about my sensational computer skills, perhaps an electric toothbrush too! :)

Reply from paula on January 2, 2008

Happy New Year to you, too.
I was trying to find some minor - positive - Highlights in my past, and I realized that I’ve been keeping track only of the negative ones. The only positive occasions that came to my mind were all the writing contests that I won. But maybe the one occasion I prefer to remember is from the university, where I attended a course of journalism. The first article I wrote as an exercise, the professor made me read it aloud as an example to my fellow students.
Even then I managed to think that it was not because I was a good writer but just a stroke of luck or something else, but this is another story…

Reply from Bev on January 2, 2008

Gosh, all this talk about dental hygiene has made me want to go floss and brush again this morning!!

Also wanted to wish everyone an amazing New Year….today’s Heavenletter names 2008 as the Year of Love. Lift-off has begun!! I have a great image of all the people in the world gathering together in groups with totally open, loving hearts and huge, pearly white smiles on their faces.

Love,
Bev

Reply from Gloria on January 2, 2008

Paula, your comment makes this whole post so worthwhile. I had never thought about it, but don’t we have the tendency to remember only too well that which we would like to forget? I’m going to start thinking daily of any accomplishments.

I would love to see more of your writing, Paula! Your teacher sure made a strong statement in choosing your writing as an example.

Bev, you would think I work for the American Dental Association, wouldn’t you!!! Of course, I am glad to contribute to the teeth of the world!

Too bad I didn’t get a copy of that gum photo!

Happy New Year to you too!

Reply from Darlene aka Yellow Car on January 3, 2008

Ok, I have to post to this one! Yesterday was my dentist appointment for a cleaning! While I was there the dentist’s hygienist mentioned to me the important of brushing and flossing, which I do…

Did you know that if you don’t do either of those it sets your organs on a low-grade alert for an infection, which in turn your liver produces a chemical to fight that off, if too much of that is released from continually not brushing or flossing, it can be the cause of early on set of Alzheimer’s and can cause a pressure behind your eyes, which can also cause blindness…not to mention all the other things, plaque, clogged arteries, heart attack, etc…

I hope I do my dentist’s hygienist justice in repeating what she told me…it’s something to think about…

Oh, and a sonic toothbrush does wondrous things to your teeth and gums and makes those dentist visits much more pleasant!

We want our teeth to last a lifetime, be in good health and of course, who can resist a pearly white smile!

Love,

Yellow Car

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