bottled sunshine: 7 Quick Takes Friday

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I had weird dreams in three consecutive days. On Sunday night I dreamed that there was a horrible flood in the kindergarten with whom I'm working with. Monday night - skip - this dream is too weird. Tuesday night, I dreamed about the R freeware (statistical package) and how it could simulate how people can go back to the past. These are super-tiring dreams!!

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God talked to me through flowers on the way to my office and poisonous mushroom outside a kindergarten. Hahaha. I mean, somehow I was really amazed by the beauty of the flowers and mushroom.

Poisonous!

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I attended the recollection at the Church of Holy Spirit because I couldn't attend the usual recollection on second Saturday. Actually the recollection at the Church of Holy Spirit was attended by mostly married women. Nevertheless, I've found that the topic of the meditations was still useful for me. The first one was on making a bright and cheerful home. The second one was on penance. The spiritual reading was on Holy Purity. What a good start for mid-year of 2013. When I said meditations, I did not mean that we were all sitting down with cross-legs, but it means a priest will talk about a topic to guide our prayer. So the main purpose is not to listen to the priest, but to use what the priest says as a conversation topic with Our Lord.

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Last Saturday was my friend's sister's wedding, right? It seems that the priest who celebrated the Mass has known the couple for a long time. He gave practical advice to the couple. Oh well, I think the homily was very useful for me too. I always have this thought (okay, not always, but sometimes), that guys are only sweet/romantic/whatsoever-extraordinary at the beginning of courtship. One thing the priest said that "Even though the guy doesn't bring 12 stalks of roses anymore, it doesn't mean that he loves you less now. It's just that his expression of love has changed." Good reminder not to complain! (anyway, for me, my boyfriend gave 1 stalk of rose is already an achievement :P Happened only twice so far, but the effect was very powerful because he rarely does it. Hahaha)

the middle is my friend, the bridesmaid :) Pretty! Three of us are high-school-friends :) My friend's sister who got married used to teach the guy at the left before our university entrance exam.

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I can't imagine working without having spiritual formation. In the midst of "brainless" work this week (cross-checking excel file with the hardcopy of questionnaires, photocopying questionnaires, editing slides, etc), one thing that keeps me persevere is a constant reminder to offer up my work for some people. (Even with this thought in my brain, it's still difficult to finish my work well!)

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The result of my relaxing weekend last week was the discovery of this interesting post on children who were adopted by same-sex "parents". This post answers the question that I have for a long time on "What happened to the children?" and it's a piece of evidence of the deception of statistics that show that "there's no negative impact on children with same-sex "parents" ". In fact, there have not been any longitudinal study on these children and same-sex couples were not sampled randomly. (The sample is not representative).

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Today I used new strategy to teach Paul's 5-year-old cousin. We did 15-minute-reading + 15-minute-playing + 15-minute-reading + 15-minute-playing. The blessing of the fact that he was bitten by ant: I could teach him the word "itchy". Hahahaha.