Paula Waatainen

Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges Resilience is often presented as feats of bravery and endurance. But everyday practices like journaling, drafting a text or even writing a to-do list are manifestations of a capacity to adapt.

Could be true. I started writing circa 1952, still at it, still here. Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges theconversation.com/writing-buil...

Here is the House of Commons agenda for today: www.ourcommons.ca/en/parliamen...

Such an amazing new program for you! I have enjoyed watching your Instagram posts.
Officially putting my hand up to volunteer if you could ever use an extra pair of hands.

Me saying “67” to my BEd students who had been visiting their practicum elementary schools: A few laughs, a few good-natured groans, and a lot of involuntary stress reactions!

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Give Vladdy even more money. #Jays #WorldSeries

Yeah!

Oh that’s so sweet! Simon looks right at home.

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

How long before Koufax pitches? He’ll be 60 years rest.

Turn on this World Series game if you’re not watching it. Incredible drama

Headline from an Athletic article suggesting that the Dodgers-Jays World Series will revive the Kendrick-Drake beef

No it does not @theathletic.com

Aha - ok thanks

Hey - Can you tell me why some fans had shoes and boots on their heads? Haven’t noticed that before

Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm

It’s that time of the semester when it’s lunchtime and I can’t remember what the opening activity was for the 3 hour class I taught this morning.
I have 24 minutes until I teach the same lesson to another cohort. Any guesses, haha?

Love that koirataivas tag 😆 I should use that too.

Enjoy your panel! Sounds very interesting

I spent a few days in Ottawa in July, and my daughter and I had quite a sensory experience walking in Byward Market before the heat and humidity broke for a thunderstorm. As the wind came at us like a blast furnace, we asked, is this what heat sounds like?

Not a Vancouver Island sound.

Catch is, you need to organize a seance to watch it.
Ok, I”m in.

Troops to Portland? Illegal and absurd. But the absurdity is the point. Trump policy is to ignore real threats to US security coming from abroad and use the armed forces to pursue imaginary threats from within, thereby creating an atmosphere suitable for personal rule. (1/2)

Soon the rainy, shorter days and higher daytime tides will make it hard to get to the dog beach. Until then, I will be lucky to take time off from screens to be here. #Nanaimo

Build Canada Homes is a step in the right direction, but we're here to present a 🧵on why building more homes will never be the silver bullet many Canadians are hoping for. Read on for info and links! (1/11)... #cdnpoli #buildcanadahomes www.gensqueeze.ca/build_canada...

Cool! It’s sure bright

This is Finny. He doesn’t go chasing waterfalls. He carefully studies their timing and arrives in advance. 14/10 very impressive (TT: jordancain70)

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

Classroom workload a top issue for B.C. teachers as school year starts B.C. school teachers returning to classrooms this fall are facing a number of growing challenges, according to the B.C. Teachers' Federation. President Carole Gordon said trying to meet the needs of a...

"The education system needs to be fully funded. When we do that, we can teach [and] feel respected within that work." BCTF President Carole Gordon discussed the top issues for teachers on CBC News yesterday. Watch the full video here: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”,

With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr.

He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3

Opinion: Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped? As the guardrails of American democracy fall one by one, it is no longer a question of where the President is going, but how fast he will get there

The latest from @acoyne.bsky.social arrives just in time to land on the syllabus of my contemporary threats to democracy course. Was looking for exactly this sort of up-to-the-moment summation of the state of play in the states. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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