OPINIONS
Do you remember your life?
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Slow down and observe
A big part of being a college
student is the ability to hurry. In
these trying days of “got to read
chapter 14, got to write a
report, got to get to work,” it’s
difficult to find time to do
anything except study.
One solution to this problem
is to extend the days to at least
30 hours. Unfortunately, sur
viving 24 hours is bad enough.
If you’ve taken the time to read
this article then ask yourself
these questions.
are you feeling these days? How
are your classes going this
term?”
2.1isten to a problem? Be
careful on this one. Listening
and hearing can be easily con
fused. Listening is where you
actually sit down with a person
and keep your mind on what
they’re saying. Hearing, on the
other hand, means to sit with a
person and worry about how
you did on your last test.
3. hug a child, pet an animal,
stop to notice the scenery? If
you are a parent it is especially
important to show some affec
tion. A squeeze on the shoulder
and a quick “’Bye honey.
Mommy’s got to study” just
won’t do the trick. Petting an
animal can be a relaxing and
much needed temporary distrac
tion. In case you haven’t notic
ed lately, we live in one of the
most beautiful states in the U.S.
Although looking at flowers
and trees won’t do a lot for your
grades, it may help save your
sanity.
4. tell someone you love
him/her? Whether it’s Mom,
Dad, spouse or lover, everyone
needs to feel wanted.
5. eat a decent meal? One
sure sign that you are overdoing
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the fast food run is when you
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know all the people in Burger
King’s drive-thru by their first
Are you too busy to:
names.
l.talk to a friend? Not just
Think about the four points
say “Hi. How are you? Got to
above. If you see yourself in any
get to class!” but a serious
of them, then maybe it’s time to
CONVERSATION, (remember
re-evaluate your schedule.
that word?). If it’s been a long
Remember, no high GPA is
time since that event occurred in
worth losing friends and family
your life, then here is a sample
over.
to get you started. “Hello! How
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Clackamas Community College
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June 1,1988
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Just another of those days
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Today was one of those days
that make a person wonder if
there are any real rewards to
parenting. My daughter dawdl
ed over her breakfast, making it
too late for her to go to the
babysitter’s. So I ended up
toting her and her cabbage
patch doll all over campus with
me. The highlight of her day
was being allowed to eat lunch
in the school cafeteria. By the
time she had made up her mind
about what she was going to eat
my nerves were frayed. It also
didn’t help my state of mind
when she only ate two bites of
her lunch.
When I finally got her home
this afternoon, she was a little
bear. Tired and exhausted,
nothing suited her quite right. I
finally sent her outside to play. I
had just shut the door behind
me when she set up an awful
wail. Running outside I
discovered she had fallen on the
cement stairs and skinned her
knee. Back in the house we went
to wash the wound and, of
course, I had to apply a ban
dage to stop the flow of tears.
Then she decided she no longer
wanted to play outside.
At wit’s end, I sent her to her
bedroom to rest. She laid there
almost an hour and still hadn’t
fallen asleep. It seemed to my
frayed nerves that she was pur
posely trying to stay awake. In
all reality it was too hot in our
apartment to get even the least
bit of sleep. So I let her get up.
By now all I had accomplish
ed was getting the laundry
started and here it was, time to
fix dinner. It didn’t look like I
was going to get much studying
done tonight. After dinner I
tripped over a crack in the
sidewalk. As she was falling she
grabbed the laundry basket to
steady herself. Down she went
with my clean laundry strung all
around her. Fighting back the
tears, I picked her up and tried
' to comfort her. I wasn’t angry,
just very discouraged.
“Mommy,” she cried, “I was
just going to show you this pret
ty rock.” And she held up a lit
tle stone all covered with mud.
“It’s okay, Shelly,” I said
tiredly. “That is a beautiful
rock. Now run and play and do
try to be more careful.”
“Mommy, I’ll help you pick
up the clothes,” she said
repentently. And before I could
stop her she’d grabbed a pile of
fresh linen in her muddy little
hands and threw it into the
basket. Inwardley praying for
strength, I. gathered up my soil
ed laundry. Through tear-
dimmed eyes, I watched her trip
off to play.
I stole about twenty minutes
to gather myself together before
I called her into bed. Now as I
sit alone in the silence of my liv
ing room, the house seems to be
too still; almost lonely in fact. I
get up and steal to my
daughter’s bedside. Her eyes are
by Tammy
closed in sleep. As I stoop to
kiss her tiny mouth, the soft
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smell of Care Bears bubble bath
She usually loves to fold the reaches out to embrace me. Sen
wash cloths, but not today. She sing my presence, her eyelids
suddenly decided she wanted to flutter open sleepily. “I love
play outside. Okay, fine! you, Mama,” she says. Then
Anything to get her out of my rolling over she drifts back to
hair. I was making my way back dreamland. Once again my eyes
to my apartment with my basket fill with tears, but this time it’s
of folded laundry, when I saw tears of love. It suddenly dawns
my daughter running toward on me that this is the reward of
me. Just as she got to me, she parenting.
decided that she must go outside
to play. But, oh my, now she
wanted to watch TV. Now she
really was being perverse. I
think she could tell that Mom
my’s resistance to her demands
was wearing quite thin. But this
was the final straw. She knows
!she is not allowed to watch TV
unless there’s something very
special on. (In the last ten weeks
that has amounted to exactly
one hour of television.) Now
here she was 'demanding to
Iwatch TV^ror ho apparent
reason .other than to try my pa
tience. Having settled the mat
ter with a firm “no,” I took her
to the laundry room with me to
help me fold the clothes.
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Heart disease, stroke and related
All I ever needed to know
My good friend Jack handed
me an article he had cut out of
the Kansas City Times, written
by Robert Fulghum. It occurred
to me that it would help get life
into a proper perspective by
sharing this piece of wisdom
with the students of Clackamas
Community college.
Thé title is, “All I Ever Need
ed to know, I Learned in
Kindergarten.”
“Most of what I really need
to know about how to live, and
what to do, and how to be, I
learned in Kindergarten.”
“Wisdom was not at the top
of graduaté school mountain,
but there in the sandbox at the
nursery.”
“These are the things I learn
ed...
“Share everything. Play fair.
Don’t hit people. Put things
back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess. Doift
take things that aren’t yours.
“Say you’re sorry when you
hurt someone. Wash your
hands before you eat.
“Flush.
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■ “Warm cookies and cold
milk are good for you. Live a
balanced life. Learn some and
think some and draw and paint
and sing and dance and play
and work every day some.
y “Be aware of wonder,
remember the little seed in the
plastic cup. The roots go down
and the plant goes up and
nobody really knows how or
why, but we are all like that.
“Goldfish and hamsters and
white mice and even the little
® seed in the plastic cup...they all
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“So do we.
“And then remember the
book about Dick and Jane and
the first word you learned, the
biggest word of all: LOOK.
“Think of what a better
world it would be if we all, the
whole world, had cookies and
milk about 3 o’clock every
afternoon and then lay down
with our blankets for a nap.
“Or if we had a basic policy
in our nation and other nations
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to always put things back where
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we found them and clean up our
own messes.
“And it is still true, no matter
“Take a nap every afternoon. how old you are, when you go
“When you go out into the out into the world it is best to
world, watch for traffic, hold hold hands and stick together.’’
hands and stick together.
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Heart disease
can
put vou in
a grave
situation.
disorders pose a very grave
threat. In fact, they kill nearly as
many Americans as all other
causes combined. At the American
Heart Association, we
have some simple suggestions that
could reduce your risk of car
diovascular disease. Don’t smoke.
Reduce the fat and cholesterol
in your diet. And keep high blood
pressure under control. To do
otherwise could be a very grave
mistake.
t American Heart
Association
call our Oregon office
at 1-800-452-9445
FOREVER YOUNG
Most pf us don't think about dying,
It seems like we'lLstay young forever.
And some of us do: drinking and
driving is the number one killer of
people under 25.
But if the thought of dying doesn’t
stop you from drinking and driving,
think about losing your license
instead. Because you will.
Oregon has tough drinking and
driving laws. And they just keep
getting tougher. You'll lose your
license for at least 90 days,
Automatically. Immediately,
It will seem like forever.
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If you drink and drive, the least you’ll lose is your license. Guaranteed. °