Reality Rhymes
We are sharing some tools to
support personal growth, relationship health, organizational development, and
overall effectiveness for mission/aid workers. Hopefully you will find them to
be creative, useful, and at times even fun. They are some of our favourites.
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These items build upon the 12
tools for “Running Well and
Resting Well”
that we included as a chapter in Doing
Member Care Well (2002). More tools and guidelines specifically for team
building are included in our “Tools for Team
Viability”
article, in the member care book we edited in 1992.
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*****
The Elf-Man
John Kendric Bangs
Down where the
lilies blow.
I asked him why
he was so small
And why he
didn't grow.
.
He slightly
frowned, and with his eye
He looked me
through and through.
"I'm quite as big for me," said he,
"As you
are big for you."
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(possible use: diversity,
seeing life in new ways)
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Foreign Lands
Robert
Louis Stevenson
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Up
into the cherry tree
Who
should climb but little me?
I held the trunk with both my hands
And looked abroad in foreign lands.
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I saw the next door garden lie,
Adorned with flowers, before my eye,
And many pleasant places more
That I had never seen before.
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I saw the dimpling river pass
And be the sky's blue looking-glass;
The dusty roads go up and down
With people tramping in to town.
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If I could find a higher tree
Farther and farther I should see,
To where the grown-up river slips
Into the sea among the ships,
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To where the roads on either hand
Lead onward into fairy land,
Where all the children dine at five,
And all the playthings come alive.
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(possible use: aspirations, exploring the world, etc.)
I held the trunk with both my hands
And looked abroad in foreign lands.
.
I saw the next door garden lie,
Adorned with flowers, before my eye,
And many pleasant places more
That I had never seen before.
.
I saw the dimpling river pass
And be the sky's blue looking-glass;
The dusty roads go up and down
With people tramping in to town.
.
If I could find a higher tree
Farther and farther I should see,
To where the grown-up river slips
Into the sea among the ships,
.
To where the roads on either hand
Lead onward into fairy land,
Where all the children dine at five,
And all the playthings come alive.
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(possible use: aspirations, exploring the world, etc.)
*****
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He Bebido
Anonymous,
South American
He bebido
Paisajes y paisajes:
Pampa, cielo, y mar.
Ahora solo quiero
Las islas de tus ojos chiquitos
Para anclar.
I have travelled in life far and wide:
drinking deeply
of the plains, seas, and skies.
Now all I yearn
for is to abide:
anchoring in the
islands of your eyes.
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(possible use: sojourns, coming home, relationships, etc.)
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