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| Make BEautiful Mistakes Ó2012 Currie Silver |
Yes! Make Mistakes!
Make BEautiful Mistakes!
Make rip-roaring flat-out ugly ones, too.
Make mistakes every day.
Like brushing your teeth
And getting enough sleep
Mistakes are good and so valuable.
Yesterday I made a whopper. I was NOT prepared. I was NOT
really considering the circumstances. I couldn’t EVEN think on my feet to “fix”
this mistake. Only when my feet were walking me all the way home through the
much milder rain did I even SEE that I’d MADE a mistake.
You see, we are all very good at making excuses and pointing
the finger at people or situations that “made us” make our mis-takes. It’s
something that starts so early it just seems like we’ve always “been this way.”
When I was teaching I encouraged the kids to remove the
erasers from their pencils. Instead of erasing their mistakes, I wanted them to
circle them. BE able to “see” where they went “wrong” in whichever way they DID
so. It has always made more sense this way, to me.
After all, are NOT our mis-takes that fertile ground from
which our most amazing and spectaculicious things have grown, blossomed, and
bloomed?!
I hold mistakes in high esteem. I see and trust that they
are indeed MOST Beautimously-Beautifull!!!
No excuses required…
I love you, Currie
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