of private students recently, after graduating four at the end of last year. the new ones are all much younger - sixth and seventh graders - and i’m having a great time getting them going. i was working with one of them on this very skill just few days ago, and my lecture to her reminded me of what i need to work on myself.
see, i said to her, your brain has a lot of jobs, and one is to keep you alive. when your brain starts to think that you might be running out of oxygen, it really wants you to stop what you are doing and breathe. and 