When I was a little kid my favorite person was my grandmother. Hands-down, no questions asked she was one of the coolest grandmas a kid could have. She did all the normal grandma stuff like read to me, she bought me toys, and she would always give me one or two more cookies then I was suppose to have… you know, grandma stuff. She also went above and beyond in a lot of ways.  From the moment I heard that we were going to do this assignment in class I knew that my Grandma was the one who should get my letter.

Lacey Graves  Activity # 3

Three blessings

Day 1

            1. I had a good conversation with my partner

Lacey Graves

Resilience factor response

2-25-08

            I really enjoyed this book. Had I read it six months ago I have a feeling that it would have been foreign and felt unreachable to me. Beginning in October I was taking 12 credits of class and living in my car in Olympia so that I could stay in school. I grew so much within the last 2 two months of fall quarter. As I was reading this book I could pin sown and put names on all of the changes that took place within myself, All of the factors of resilience seemed to shine through and guide my life in a calming and accepting way. For the first time I was truly able to see how negative circumstances can be used as an opportunity to learn and grow.

You know those commercials on TV, the ones for the exercise equipment that promises to give to rippling mussels if you work out for just five minutes a day. Whenever I see those commercials I always wonder, “do people actually buy into that?” I suppose some people must. I’m basing this assumption off the fact that every garage sale I have ever been to has had one of these “quick fix” exercise machines available for purchase. Sometimes I worry that a lot of the mood altering techniques we have read about in this class may be viewed by people in the same way as those exercise machine commercials.