Dear John
My literacy sponsors would be my family.My parents taught me a very valuable lesson which is to acknowledge and feel your feelings.
Avoiding your negative emotion may feel like an effective way to handle things but in fact it is not, all it’s doing is postponing your failure. Ignoring your emotions is like running away from something that’s on your shoulder. The only way to be truly free is to face the music and let it
consume you.I am very grateful for my family and hope they will never leave my side.
That is such a smart comment! I sometimes think one of the things that’s wrong with our society is that we don’t deal with our emotions well; either we blow up for no reason or we hold things inside. Your post is very smart, very insightful. Hurray for your family for helping with that.
–Prof Blain