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Passages are the resonating lines, compelling lyrics, riveting scenes, and enchanting images that deepen our lives.

Passages

E.B. White

“Why did you do this for me?” he asked. “I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.”

“You have been my friend,” replied Charlotte. “That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.”

Classroom Magic

Lesson #1: Empty Your Cup!

No matter what grade or subject I teach, on our first day, my first lesson will always be “Empty Your Cup!” I want my students to know that if they’re not open to learning, I can’t teach them. I swear, Socrates, Confucius, Siddhartha (Buddha), Jesus, or Muhammad couldn’t teach a bunch of reluctant, rebellious adolescents.

Archives

Nothing Matters Everything Matters

Nothing matters We’re all Insignificant specks In a dispassionate universe Where how we spend Our days Our dollars Our energy Our time Our lives In a hundred years Won’t matter All our failures All our accomplishments All our relationships All our choices All our things Will evanesce Yet

About Jamie will be there

For four decades, Jaime Richards taught and coached elementary, middle, high school, college, and adult school students. Currently, he’s working with new teachers as an assistant professor at National University. Jaime has published four books with two more in the works. His current project, My Vital Lesson — It’s the people; it’s always the people, asks educators, “What is the most vital lesson you teach your students? What do they most need to learn?”

As the founder and president of The Kefi Foundation, Jaime works to promote the kefi spirit by providing disadvantaged children with the equipment and instruction they’ll need to both lose and find themselves in art, athletics, dance, drama, and/or music.

Jaime and his retired first-grade teacher wife, Norma, live in southern California in a house filled with books, surrounded by family. Daughter, Kyrra, owns the Malibu Dance Academy.

When he’s not with family, Jaime loves reconnecting with his former students.