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Tag Archives: stress
Add teachers to the “overwhelmed frontline workers” list
There may be a vaccine ready to be rolled out in some places. But it will be a long, slow process, and meanwhile in many, many places – too many places – the healthcare facilities are overflowing and the healthcare … Continue reading
Posted in History and Politics, Odds and Ends
Tagged COVID, learning, overwhelmend, professors, stress, stress in workplace, teachers, teaching, value of teachers
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What the Bushmen of the Kalahari can teach us
Who would have thought that the longest “serving” hunter-gatherers on our planet, the San people of southern Africa, more commonly referred to as Bushmen, would have some important reminders for the rest of us. But a Christmas book I just … Continue reading
Posted in Farming, History and Politics, Just wondering
Tagged Affluence without Abundance, botswana, Bushmen, Climate change, egalitarian, hunter-gatherers, hunting, inequality, James Suzman, Kalahari, Namibia, patriarchy, people, resilience, San, social conventions, southern Africa, stress, wants versus needs, work versus leisure
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Musings of a former retiree
I’ve had the unusual opportunity this year of finding myself interrupting a happy, fruitful retirement – 5 years in – to return to work for a year. I thought it might be useful to any of you who are presented … Continue reading
Life lesson from systems theory: stress and trade-off curves
Newspapers, magazines, and blogs these days are filled with articles about the staggering amount of stress we have introduced into our lives. It’s everywhere. In fact, people have been concerned about how to manage stress in their lives for the past … Continue reading
Yoga and workplace stress … nice, but not the solution
Maybe yoga really is the answer to everything. I had been thinking that must be true, based on the number of specialized yoga classes available to address nearly every aspect of well-being. So when I saw an article in Saturday’s … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Business
Tagged business, Chi Running, mindfulness, nature, plants, stress, stress in workplace, training, work-life balance, yoga
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