2016年は今日でおしまいです！
今年も 生徒さんたちと good newsを一緒にお祝いできて
実りある年となりました。
Ａさんは博士号を取得。
Ｓさんはフィンランドに奨学金で留学。
Kさんはサンフランシスコに語学留学決定。
Ｔさんも Ｒさんも Yちゃんも 英検に合格。
Cさんは ビジネス出張で 何度もイタリア 中国へ行くことに。
そのほかの happy newsも ”happy jar"に 次々と寄せられて、
Jarをワンサイズ大きくしたほどです♡
→ https://ecola.jimdo.com/生徒さんの声-happy-jar-から/
さて、年末最後の投稿は、
姪っ子に教えてもらった すてきなお話ひとつと
一篇の詩をシェアして 終わります。
自分が自分であることに誇りをもって存在しつづけること、
それこそが一番価値のあることなのですよね…。
だれでもない自分を大切にする一年を
またともに 過ごしていきたいと思います。
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"Twenty Dollars"
Author
Unknown
A well known speaker started off his
seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked. "Who would
like this $20 bill?"
Hands started going up. He said,
"I am going to give this $20 to one of you - but first, let me do
this."
He proceeded to crumple the 20
dollar note up. He then asked. "Who still wants it?" Still the hands
were up in the air.
"Well," he replied,
"what if I do this?" He dropped it on the ground
and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now
crumpled and dirty. "Now, who still wants it?"
Still the hands went into the air.
"My friends, you have all
learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did
to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was
still worth $20.
Many times in our lives, we are
dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the
circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless; but no
matter what happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value.
Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely
creased, you are still priceless
to those who love you. The worth of our lives comes, not in what we do or who
we know, but by ...WHO WE ARE.
You are special - don't ever forget
it."
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↑ 谷川俊太郎 『すこやかに おだやかに しなやかに』 pp46-47 佼成出版社
みなさまにとって、２０１７年がますます幸せな年となりますように。
世界がもっと平和になるよう ひとりひとりが努力できますように。
Good-bye 2016, and welcome a New Year of 2017!
