An email from a participant in a recent Art of Hosting-type workshop where I brought my juggling balls and taught juggling. \u00a0One of the participants, a teacher, \u00a0picked up the skill and left with my three balls in hand to \u00a0evangelize \u00a0play!<\/p>\n
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This may end up sounding like the silliest email ever but thanks for showing me how to juggle. \u00a0 I am really enjoying it. \u00a0 I have never found something that I \u00a0am not hard on myself to perfect until now. \u00a0 I go outside, or inside and practice for a few minutes and if the balls drop, I just pick them up. \u00a0 Very cool. \u00a0 And I love feeling that I am improving. \u00a0 Yesterday I was showing my boss what I learned and I almost had to stop juggling because it was the longest I had gone. \u00a0 Then the balls fell and solved that problem! \u00a0 But one of the students as he got off the bus yesterday asked me what I learned at school and I told him I’d show him. \u00a0 I have never seen this child so enthusiastic about anything and when I was finally able to show the class, they all applauded! \u00a0 That was cool. \u00a0 But it was fun to be able to show the class something they could understand. \u00a0 Except there was another child who after my juggling display says, “what else did you learn”. \u00a0 So I go on to tell the class we learned a lot of what we are learning in preschool such as how to calm your body down. \u00a0 Then the same boy, “then what did you learn”, so I continue by saying I could host a world cafe. \u00a0 And again, “what did you learn”. \u00a0 I think this child has a future being a lawyer!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Far from the silliest email I have ever received. \u00a0This is what makes teaching worth it, and why play matters so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An email from a participant in a recent Art of Hosting-type workshop where I brought my juggling balls and taught juggling. \u00a0One of the participants, a teacher, \u00a0picked up the skill and left with my three balls in hand to \u00a0evangelize \u00a0play! This may end up sounding like the silliest email ever but thanks for showing me how to juggle. \u00a0 I am really enjoying it. \u00a0 I have never found something that I \u00a0am not hard on myself to perfect until now. \u00a0 I go outside, or inside and practice for a few minutes and if the balls drop, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-MY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3038,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/3038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}