Headmaster's Blog

The Power of 'Live'

One of the best things you can do in your youth is to perform some live theatre and the next best thing is to go and see it. There's something that can affect you in ways not possible with movies and recordings when the moments are living and real and you catch them! Maybe too, it's the pact that you have to make tacitly when you enter a theatre for a live show; you allow yourself to accept the theatrical illusion and you suspend your disbelief. Emotions can hang in the air and both joys and sadnesses be felt more keenly.

Awesome

There's a whole way of looking at the world that causes us to find joy in the simplest of things and it's engagingly and effectively conveyed in the Book of Awesome by Neil Pasricha. The premise is that there's a multitude of satisfying moments to be felt when we allow ourselves to savour them. It takes the "glass is half full...." philosophy to new lengths and in doing so it reinforces a way of looking at life that is ultimately much more fun. After reading it, it's hard not to find yourself searching out those moments where you too are quietly declaring,"awesome"!

Facebook

As a non-Facebook user, I've been surprised at how often it seems to have kept cropping up in my little world this week. First there was Jay Connolly's brilliant address at Grad which drew heavily on Facebook for humour and penetrating insights on life as the metaphor was developed. Then the radio seemed to be mentioning Facebook every time that I turned it on, from reflective pieces by an author giving up her Facebook friends because of the unsatisfying shallowness of the contacts to discussions about the potential impact of the new privacy settings.

Wellness

Wellness is a relatively new term and indicates a blend of the physical, the emotional, the spiritual and the mental to produce a stability in our lives that helps us to be positive and productive. The day that we had yesterday where we celebrated health and wellness through a variety of presentations, workshops and addresses, underlined how much there is to learn as we seek our own approaches to life.

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