Thursday, February 28, 2013

Today

Today I saw this large heart shaped stone at the beach.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Good & Fruity Person


Dream

“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.” ― Miguel Ruiz

Grow

“Those who can adapt to change are those who will continue to grow.”

Justin Ramalho

The Force

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. ~Prabhat Ranjan Sarka

Japanese Fruits Fashion

Fruits

Fresh fruit & fruit juice mmmm

Moon walk

Moon walk (Bouncy Castle)

Steel drums

Letters

I started to write letters. I enjoy getting a letter in the mail and its cool to send one and receive a response

A Change

My favorite dinosaur got its name changed. Brontosaurus has a new name.

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=brontosaurus+name+change&oq=brontosaurus+name+change&gs_l=serp.3..0j0i30j0i5i30j0i8i30.778493.784572.5.784877.24.21.0.3.3.0.313.3352.0j17j3j1.21.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.4.psy-ab.PvRIjZGbGOc&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=8e8306cc6832c055&biw=1366&bih=611

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Relaxation

Peacock

Memories

Love is cool

The Tall Ship

At The Memorial middle school we went on a trip to go aboard a Tall Ship. It rained & it was pretty wild. At this school I went to my first and only dances. In high school I never went to any of the proms.At one dance I started to run around the dance floor in a circle around everyone. I was so happy.

The Atlantic Ocean

Walking

Today

Fashion

I Love it

Visit

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Gigi


I remember being little and watching Jeopardy & eating fruit cups with my uncle Gigi (George Welch) (Gigi pictured here with my cousin Timo)

Fun every day

In the spring

Happy


                             

writing

poetry

Fashion

Photography

Laughter

Organization

I enjoy organizing

Collages

Water

I want to go swimming right now but it is freezing outside. Spring is on its way and summer isnt far behind it :)

Love

My heart is full of love light and joy

Saved Myself

Thursday, February 21, 2013

We won



In 1999 I joined Hull Girls Softball. I played the outfield. I had a hard time hitting the ball in the beginning. Our Coach Mr Leeber taught me to aim for under the softball and I was able to hit after that. It was fun. Our team won that year. :)

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Sunday, February 17, 2013

LOVE

 

Wish

Tetris Anyone?

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_rn=3&gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=CuOiPlvlr2FGUBZLAX_6ug&pq=collaboration&cp=8&gs_id=7c&xhr=t&q=free+tetris&es_nrs=true&pf=p&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&oq=free+tet&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=5aad920d6efc462e&biw=1366&bih=611

Glow in the dark

glow in the dark stuff is cool.

Lite Brite

Lite Brite is awesome. I want one

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_rn=3&gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=tbOa9vHXZ5UtACrZbQX_BA&cp=6&gs_id=2o&xhr=t&q=lite+brite&es_nrs=true&pf=p&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&oq=lite+b&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&fp=5aad920d6efc462e&biw=1366&bih=611

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lite+brite&oq=lite+brite&gs_l=youtube.3..0l10.836.2580.0.2837.5.4.0.1.1.0.193.601.0j4.4.0...0.0...1ac.1.cTEJoONGbGg

Happy Moments

People should journal about their Happy Moments in the day. So they are focused on the positive and have  notebooks filled with happy moments.

Mints

Happy moments are mints. People should write about the happy moments they remember so they can reflect on a happy life

NIRVANA

In the 8th grade a band from the high school came to the middle school and performed smells like teen spirit by Nirvana. It was awesome

SOS MESSAGE OF LOVE

Message of Love

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

SOS Message of Love

                                                               
                               SOS: Save Our Selves / Save Our Students/ Save Our Societies

                                                                               *
                                                                 Message of Love

                                                       I Am introducing my idea for:
                                                       
           Emotional Awareness, Therapeutic Strategies & Mediation Solutions Programs

Creating a strong foundation to grow from is what I believe Emotional Awareness, Therapeutic Strategies & Mediation Solutions Programs for Preschool, Head Start, Kindergarten, Elementary School Systems & beyond will accomplish. These skills have the ability to benefit children though-out their entire lives. This type of program has the potential to be a helpful resource for children to have. Seeing emotions as a functional part in children's education & acknowledging the equal importance of educating & enriching the analytical & emotional aspects of learning.

Not all children express their pain.  Some internalize it. Some do not have outlets. With therapy seen as a stigmas in some eyes, some parents wont get help for themselves or their children. That is not healthy for all involved. Learning skills for healthy emotional balance, self expression  & communication can have high therapeutic value.

How do I ask the world to change without making them angry?  how do I teach a world to love people when they are willing to hurt, abuse, kill themselves and kill others with their hands with no empathy no second thought and enjoying it? How do I get people to look at themselves? How do I heal the sick of mind and body when people wont accept help or cant afford help? How can I heal their spirits with hope and love? How do I show them the good the are, the good in the world, the good that can be?  How do I make them feel understood accepted & loved? How do I create balance amongst all? How do I prevent their pain? How do I ask hate groups to stop hating when they represent their hate on purpose? How do I ask the rich to share with the poor so they don’t have to suffer? How do I ask people to stop having war when they keep picking scabs and or further wounding? How can I stop the unrest pain and hopelessness of many? How do I make them smile and go onward in a positive manner? How can I help them all?  I want everyone to be free to love life. For people to feel loving, happy, & peaceful. If you walk in love you walk with a purpose of making things better. All the good everyone does everywhere matters. All the love everyone gives matters. From giving a compliment to establishing treaties. It all matters. I would like people to achieve balance. I would like the weight of the past that has been on the shoulders of so many to be lifted. I want the fear in the hearts of many to stop. I want love to return to the hearts of everyone who has forgotten how to love. So much possibility and love can be created for so many with changes of heart.  There needs to be healing for many. Help for the sick of mind and body. If that could be achieved in every person it could create ripples for a balanced and loving world. Thinking these questions over and over I brainstormed and came up with the idea for Emotional Awareness, Therapeutic Strategies & Mediation Solutions Programs. I believe it will help. I have personally experienced good advice, compliments and help during different times in my life that has helped me. The right advice or a loving word at the right time has the potential to change someone’s life. Their mindset can change, effecting their mood, choices, and actions. It is powerful.

When most of us are young we learn things like:  playing nice, getting along with others, helping each other, sharing & that we should enjoy your childhood. The fact is we can all play nice, get along, help each other & enjoy our time.

This type of education has the ability to be a tool for the prevention of violence, stopping the creation or exacerbation of mental health conditions & opening up people's eyes that there are options for living a more harmonious & healthier life. The hope of this is that each person utilizing their ability to be a positive influence on each other. Teaching & learning how to heal themselves & others. It creates a strong current of  love energy. With people being good examples for children they will learn how they benefit from listening, speaking, learning information, creating from their minds and by their hands.

 Healthy methods of coping and creating outlets causes progress not derailment. Positive intent, focus, rumination & comforting yourself & others is important. Establishing a better environment for all people in their individual and shared collective experiences. Including the individual actions/ reactions and its effects on the relationship with self, all other relationships involved. People learning they have the ability to reestablish ownership with the choices they make can have a profound effect on what situations are formed . This style of education will help to control Triangulations on an individual basis, helping each person individually and the lives of all collectively by creating a flow of awareness and a neutralization of negative emotions. Learning how to deal with emotions in a constructive manner by channeling it into a creative activity, some form of exercise, education, healing arts  or other ventures could prove to be fruitful. The healing of self and working towards balance of & removing road blocks created by themselves or others.There are detours to use to get back on the path.

Everyone is intelligent. Believe you can learn, get better, and that you make a difference. Sharing the love you have is far more valuable than stuff. Love unlike stuff doesn't break, it can't be stolen & it is never wasted. Don't worry life has a way of working things out, regardless of situation there is always a way.  With an attitude of positivity, and choosing healthier reactions it can stop the poison of negative emotions from depleting peoples energy and breeding negativity. Nurturing the mental, physical  and emotional well being can be something everyone can do. Patience, forgiveness, not hurting yourself and or others, consideration & acceptance are helpful in maintaining peace.  Cultivating positive internal and external emotional reactions, developing coping strategies, adaptive qualities, & tuning into empathic understanding of self and others. The acknowledgement that everyone has emotional aspects of their existence that needs tending to would be a universal help.

 Respecting the lives of people here now would be a great for people to do.( ALSO: animals, nature & the people of the future). It would be better if people were remembered not for their pain they cause or were given, but for their love they gave and received. No one is 100 percent bad, regardless if people think that way or if thats what others think of them. Love has touched their lives and resides in them regardless of who rejects it. Love is everyone's true nature. The people who do bad things can stop doing bad things. They have the ability to change for the better. Love is everyone's true nature. They can find their way back.

So many people have pushed the boundaries of reality and were led by love, by intelligence, by streaming flowing energy of the water of creation that flows in all. Do you feel the flow? Do you feel the current? Calm your crashing seas. It is all energy. Every last bit of it. Empathy can be more intense for some people Learning to adjust regardless of what happens.For the good of one and all. Do you wrap yourself in a blanket of loving memories?  do you light your path with ideas? Do you concentrate on what you love and what you enjoy? Do you take an interest in learning? Do you acknowledge your ability to do amazing things?

Living in this reality I know its not just day dreams, dreams at night, thoughts, ideas, memories, prayers, hopes, goals, information, experiencing the senses, adaptation, evolution, simplification, accomplishment etc. It's not just mental, physical, spiritual or emotional. It is all of that and so much more. There is such good in the world. There is always more to be done & that is a good thing. Right now we are creating memories, remembering memories, having ideas, making plans & participating in actions that have the potential to make things better.

It is amazing how we can all create things from thin air like art, music & conversation. It is beautiful.

When someone grows a garden they bring different elements together. We do that in different aspect of our lives. Some of those elements are water ( emotional flow), sunlight (energy), seeds (ideas) , roots (communication), growth (physical, mental, emotional, analytical work) , & complimenting the processes ( take part, pitch in, create & celebrate.) This is what I want to see inspired by this program.

Enough people have suffered enough pain that we should know hurting and killing doesn't solve anything. Wouldn't it be nice if the people who create diseases and do negative things would have changes of heart and create cures for illnesses and heal people instead. They would be appreciated and remember for the good they do. Their actions reverberating out to others and echoing into the lives of everyone that follows forever in a good way.

 Life is like a kaleidoscope always new, always changing & it can be beautiful to behold.
 
 Education should be fun, enriching and helpful. Children who enjoy learning are more likely to be better in technology, science, math,  engineering, creative work, health, etc .Access to libraries, computer use and educational programing ( in school and at home) is important. Having the possibility of becoming more likely to be and stay interested in learning. This could make them more likely to enjoy school. Doing better & trying harder than they may have because they are stronger within themselves. This making them more likely to go to college, find a career where they get along with others and enjoy the lives they make . This could create more businesses because of people having learned abilities to better communicate with others. People would be more likely to choose careers in healing, education & information also. They will have the skills for empathy. With the existence of the mind body connection this program can help many people with emotional and physical illnesses to treat themselves better & making it more likely they have empathetic doctors. Health insurance would pay out less because of the health benefits of dealing with emotions in a healthy & constructive manner. Less people may end up abusing drugs, going to jail, prison, committing crimes & more.They can be helped. A program like this could create jobs for many fields including the mental health field. It can become be a proponent for peace & a way for us to unify in love.

We can unlearn & relearn.We can pull out the roots of negativity instead of  letting the hate grow with anger, frustration, hate or sadness.We can plant love in the gardens of everyone's minds, unlocking the doors of peoples hearts and preventing a lot of suffering. People can change by choice. Everyone has many choices. Habits can be broken, routines can be adjusted, schedules can be changed, and so can people. The time everyone has here is unpredictable, not always knowing what is next can be excited. You are living! So many people want to live & live happily. Do not fear. Be enthusiastic. Enjoy your time. The when, why, how, who, where, what and endless amount of detail from this world is all wrapped up in each individual projected experience that streams out of light and flows with sound.

Everyone learning how to debate peacefully and come up with conflict resolution in a healthy verbal manner would be helpful. Not allowing our bodies and minds to be projections or tools of hate but instruments for evolution, revolution, education, healing & advancement would be a catalyst for change.

Love is life. Each person is one & together we are one. There is a blossoming of the world at large.

My hopes is that The Governments, The School Systems and the field of Psychology can come together in manifesting the Emotional Awareness, Therapeutic Strategies & Mediation Solutions Programs to make a brighter future for everyone

With love always,

Michelle Cuccia

Collaboration

Anyone  interested in working with me on creative projects please email me at michellecuccia@gmail.com



Saturday, February 16, 2013

Journey

Family Matters

I remember going to The Boys & Girls Club in South Boston and trying to get raffle tickets to get an urkel doll. I didn't win the doll. I loved that place. I loved the arts and crafts the best.

 http://www.bgcb.org/

 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=family+matters+urkel&oq=family+matters+urkel&gs_l=youtube.3..0l10.23019.25049.0.25343.6.3.0.3.3.0.142.315.2j1.3.0...0.0...1ac.1.U1nZLJWcaJ0

 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=family+matters&oq=family+matters&gs_l=youtube.3..35i39l2j0l8.64634.65646.0.66726.6.3.0.0.0.0.252.552.1j0j2.3.0...0.0...1ac.1.O2x2pqxV6L0


The 3 Seths

Seth Myers
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=seth+meyers

Seth Green
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=seth+green&oq=seth+green&gs_l=youtube.3..0l10.16490.19169.0.19715.13.9.1.3.3.1.164.967.2j7.9.0...0.0...1ac.1.PsBotC-qQMg

Seth Mcfarlane
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=seth+macfarlane

That's golden

It would be cool if people said "tha'ts golden" instead of "that's sick".

Golden books are cool. I used to read them when I was little. I read a lot.

 https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_rn=3&gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=XCM6_LoTGPSnYITkcRZ30A&pq=michelle+remembers&cp=9&gs_id=20v&xhr=t&q=little+golden+books&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&biw=1366&bih=591&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=FOYfUaH3M6-00AH-7oDoDA

If your happy and you know it

clap your hands


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb75xwfzk2o

snowglobe

when i look out the window it looks like I am in a snowglobe

Back to the future

I love those movies

holograms

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=holograms&oq=holograms&gs_l=hp.3..0l4.244671.246917.4.247177.9.9.0.0.0.1.685.2436.0j2j5j1j0j1.9.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.3.psy-ab.zF6ixMUvEfI&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&fp=5aad920d6efc462e&biw=1366&bih=591

animatrons

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&spell=1&q=animatrons&sa=X&ei=wagfUa7dFuuJ0QGkkoCoAw&ved=0CC8QvwUoAA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&fp=5aad920d6efc462e&biw=1366&bih=591

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_kUbxxrh0s&feature=related

Simon Says

Simon says many things. Sweet, harsh & in between. It seems to me that he is testing people. He is testing them to see if the drive and passion are there regardless of what anyone thinks or says. He is harsh sometimes but he wants to see if negative comments matter more than their dreams do. It's like a psych out. His comments make some people upset & some cry. Some give up & then blame him. If they reacted in a way of "well that's one mans opinion I can keep going, work on my craft and still create. Maybe it wasn't the dream they really wanted. If it really is their dream they should try again & keep trying. Never stop trying.

"Dust yourself off & Try Again" - Aaliyah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcIvIladNnQ

 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=baseketball+psych+out&oq=baseketball+psych+out&gs_l=youtube-reduced.3..0l3.3564075.3569717.0.3569895.21.14.0.7.7.0.151.1623.2j12.14.0...0.0...1ac.1.SqkAl_pH3Bc

 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=simon+cowell&oq=simon+cowell&gs_l=youtube.3..0l10.32304.39799.0.55238.21.13.3.5.5.0.241.1432.2j9j1.12.0...0.0...1ac.1.MzRVoUSr8I8

 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=simon+cowell+american+idol&oq=simon+cowell+american+idol&gs_l=youtube.3..0l10.23580.26361.0.26910.14.6.0.8.8.0.210.768.2j3j1.6.0...0.0...1ac.1.mScrP3tpZBs

 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=simon+cowell+x+factor&oq=simon+cowell+x+factor&gs_l=youtube.3..0l10.14267.18543.0.18780.21.9.0.7.7.2.157.965.4j5.9.0...0.0...1ac.1.bcJ8Y8MJ4Yw

 https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=simon+game+free&oq=simon+game+free&gs_l=hp.3..0l2j0i30j0i5i30.1809.4781.0.4951.15.13.0.2.2.0.463.2390.0j10j2j0j1.13.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.3.psy-ab.qqk9owz02C4&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmg&fp=5aad920d6efc462e&biw=1366&bih=591

SMILE

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&spell=1&q=benefits+of+smiling&sa=X&ei=5ZAfUeKJF6et0AH45YH4CQ&ved=0CC8QvwUoAA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&fp=5aad920d6efc462e&biw=1366&bih=591

Unity

"Unify in love" - Michelle Cuccia

 https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=Unify+in+love&oq=Unify+in+love&gs_l=hp.3...8357.13764.5.15785.12.10.2.0.0.0.352.1956.0j7j2j1.10.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.3.psy-ab.4jOFtU6EVFM&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmg&fp=5aad920d6efc462e&biw=1366&bih=591

 https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&biw=1366&bih=591&sclient=psy-ab&q=Unify&oq=Unify&gs_l=hp.3..0l4.26885.29307.8.29929.6.5.1.0.0.2.264.920.0j4j1.5.0.les%3B..0.0...1c..3.psy-ab.hRyW-Isnjq8&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmg&fp=5aad920d6efc462e

 https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=unity&oq=unity&gs_l=hp.3..0l4.1454910.1456384.1.1457224.5.5.0.0.0.1.428.1420.0j1j2j1j1.5.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.3.psy-ab.6vlW9io_NQo&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&fp=5aad920d6efc462e&biw=1366&bih=591

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=love&oq=love&gs_l=hp.3..0l4.31284.33305.9.33733.4.3.0.1.1.0.159.457.0j3.3.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.3.psy-ab.qhEgVL5ZgeQ&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmg&fp=5aad920d6efc462e&biw=1366&bih=591

Friday, February 15, 2013

Good Manners


Good manners never go out of style

 http://wisdomformygrandchildren.blogspot.com/2012/06/good-manners-never-go-out-of-style.html

Travel

I will:  go to the coral castle in florida and see all the great work put into it. I'll visit Disney & see the castle.    I'll go to Universal Studios.
          dance as the colors do at the northern lights in canada.
          camp at the grand canyon in Arizona
          see Criss Angel in vegas
          go to hollywood and see shows (Ellen, The price is right,  Jimmy Kimmel Live etc), the walk of fame & dance many times in many places with a happy hear filled with love.

Nantasket Beach

Dream Machine

"We are all dream machines" - Michelle Cuccia



The Dream Machine in Hull, MA.
https://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&biw=1366&bih=591&q=dream%20machine%20hull%20%20ma&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw&ei=ET8eUcapKNHW0gHUiYHICw

"We are the music makers / and we are the dreamers of dreams" - Willy Wonka

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M0eMkcc91E

Thursday, February 14, 2013

King's Castle

When I was little my moms would take my brother & I to king's castle land

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=kings+castle+whitman%2C+ma&oq=kings+castle+whitman%2C+ma&gs_l=hp.3..0j0i8i30.449913.450717.1.451256.4.4.0.0.0.0.164.549.0j4.4.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.3.psy-ab.jLwZwsqJWMg&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&fp=5aad920d6efc462e&biw=1366&bih=591

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6s6gfA6Nkk

 http://profileengine.com/groups/profile/420832140/bring-back-kings-castleland-whitman-ma

Letter


 I was given this letter from my friend my 11th Grade Honors English Teacher Mr. Kevin Wolgemuth. It is one of the nicest things ever written to me. It meant a lot to me. Mr W. was a great teacher.

It reads:

Michelle,

So many people come into our lives taking but not giving or giving thanks.Twice this year you have shared with me the two most unused words in english "thank you" and twice this year you have made me feel stronger as a person and appreciated as a teacher.
I thank you. You are one of the kindest, most generous people I have had the pleasure of knowing. Your presence in class this year made my life better. Remain you.

-Kevin Wolgemuth

FASHION

I Love Fashion

Starchild

I am an adventure loving starchild

Try Again

"Dust Yourself Off & Try Again" - aaliyah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcIvIladNnQ

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6MtmkqPbps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nlOeqEIHXY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I2Aba-BYF8

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAM2-hg7xJs

Out of this world


Imagine

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

flying squirrels


https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=flying+squirrels

Celebrate

"Celebrate Yourselves, One another & Life" - Michelle Cuccia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X7RyGBq2E8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFloZbT99oE

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJO-SGeb7yE



Poem

https://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&q=joseph%20o%27sullivan%20ma%20teachers%20association&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42261806,d.dmQ&biw=1366&bih=591&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw&ei=d8sbUcnuGcHa0QH_koGwBA

Joseph O'Sullivan gave me a copy of this poem when we worked at EEI together. He was on the board of the Massachusetts Teachers Association.

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!

Have You?


Tuesday, February 12, 2013

 

Recommendation

 Mr. Kevin Wolgemuth was my 11th Grade Honors English teacher at Hull High. He wrote me this letter of recommendation when I tried to get into college a few years back. He is a good man.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Kevin Wolgemuth" <klwolgemuth@hotmail.com>
To: cunnibunni1@yahoo.com
Cc:
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:33:00 -0500
Subject: Rough Draft
Michelle -- Give this a read-through and let me know if it works for you.  Enjoy!



Dear Admissions Committee:

It is with great confidence that I recommend Michelle Cuccia to your school and community. In the years that I have known her, Michelle has demonstrated herself to be creative and courageous with a remarkable ability to bring a new perspective to those around her.

Michelle was a standout three years ago when she began my English 11 Humanities course at Hull High School.  Her green hair and eccentric outfit were certainly unique.  Unlike other students who mimed artistic expression, however, Michelle's appearance was a sincere expression from within, as was quickly affirmed by her writing and participation.  For her journals, essays, and creative pieces, I initially felt the need to keep focusing Michelle.  She seemed to lack control, as her writing was an explosion of insights and connections.  When she was allowed to determine the flow of her work, however, she revealed her writing's power.  Her classmates submitted hastily typed drafts, one each.  Michelle submitted four drafts, the first three covered in cutting lines, rewrites, write-ins, sketches, and arrows.  They were chaotic.  But the final draft was exactly what she needed to say. Michelle's in-class contributions were similarly creative and precise.  As capable a listener as she is a leader, she demonstrated fine balance in respecting others' opinions while providing her own.  Her additions to class were insightful and thought-provoking, raising the conversation as well as her and her classmates' education.  Her creativity isn't merely worn: it is the real thing.

Following that year, I spoke with Michelle while she still attended and I still taught at Hull High School.  She explained the difficulties of her family life and her new hardships in surviving on her own.  Alone, she faced obstacles many adults have the good fortune to never know.  She never complained or questioned why, instead focusing on how she was working to reach her goals.  Few students earn their teacher's respect as an adult; fewer still are those that the teacher looks up to as a model of courage, dedication, and unflinching grace and humor.
Michelle Cuccia is the strongest individual I have met while teaching, and yet she is also the most genuine and compassionate.  I recommend her to you with certainty and enthusiasm.  She will bring to your educational community wisdom, creativity, appreciation, and awareness that will invigorate the classroom and the lives of her classmates and instructors.



 http://www.sbrsd.org/pages/faculty-staff.directory.html
 exerpt below from website directly above these words.

 Kevin Wolgemuth teaches Grades 9-12 English Language Arts. He was awarded a BA in English and a BA in Psychology from the State University of New York, Buffalo. He has also earned Masters Degrees from Syracuse University in English and in Sociology, and from Maxwell School at Syracuse University in the area of Public Administration. Mr. Wolgemuth came to Mt. Everett in 2004. In 2005, the National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored his participation in a seminar entitled "Chaucer's Canterbury Comedies" in Canterbury England. Mr. Wolgemuth holds MA teaching certification in English, Grades 8-12.

Alien

We are on earth, a planet in this universe. I believe we aren't the only intelligent life in space. To aliens we are aliens. Making them & Us the same by being alien. The stars are beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otLOh7Nihz8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1tQFX_9ct0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Sd5c4o9UM

 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=et+movie&oq=et+movie&gs_l=youtube.3..0l10.2391.3509.0.3847.6.4.0.2.2.0.135.488.0j4.4.0...0.0...1ac.1.YlyZqjmKN2o

 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dude+where%27s+my+car+movie&oq=dude+where%27s+my+car+movie&gs_l=youtube.3..0l5.1263.2616.0.2841.6.3.0.3.3.0.151.312.1j2.3.0...0.0...1ac.1.prgvjboMjqY

3 Songs

Three songs I remember us singing in chorus at my Elementary school were The Yellow Submarine, Do you hear what I hear? & Singing Swahili. Singing swahili singing swa hi li!!!! (sounds like swa-heel-lee)

Hypnotized

Readings

 
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Monday, February 11, 2013

Do you hear what I hear?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20_eed97Lzw

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Build Yourselves Strong Foundations

Sometimes the foundation of a person need fixing just like a building would.
A Strong Foundation is important. (Thoughtful, healthy, happy, creative & loving)

Song Birds

WE are all SONG BIRDS

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yH0Ft22t1E

water babies

I had one of these dolls as a kid. It's cool they are making them for a new generation.

http://www.playmatestoys.com/brands/waterbabies

The Heart's Work


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Message of Love

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

SOS Message of Love

                                                               
                               SOS: Save Our Selves / Save Our Students/ Save Our Societies

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                                                                 Message of Love

                                                       I Am introducing my idea for:
                                                       
           Emotional Awareness, Therapeutic Strategies & Mediation Solutions Programs

Creating a strong foundation to grow from is what I believe Emotional Awareness, Therapeutic Strategies & Mediation Solutions Programs for Preschool, Head Start, Kindergarten, Elementary School Systems & beyond will accomplish. These skills have the ability to benefit children though-out their entire lives. This type of program has the potential to be a helpful resource for children to have. Seeing emotions as a functional part in children's education & acknowledging the equal importance of educating & enriching the analytical & emotional aspects of learning.

Not all children express their pain.  Some internalize it. Some do not have outlets. With therapy seen as a stigmas in some eyes, some parents wont get help for themselves or their children. That is not healthy for all involved. Learning skills for healthy emotional balance, self expression  & communication can have high therapeutic value.

How do I ask the world to change without making them angry?  how do I teach a world to love people when they are willing to hurt, abuse, kill themselves and kill others with their hands with no empathy no second thought and enjoying it? How do I get people to look at themselves? How do I heal the sick of mind and body when people wont accept help or cant afford help? How can I heal their spirits with hope and love? How do I show them the good the are, the good in the world, the good that can be?  How do I make them feel understood accepted & loved? How do I create balance amongst all? How do I prevent their pain? How do I ask hate groups to stop hating when they represent their hate on purpose? How do I ask the rich to share with the poor so they don’t have to suffer? How do I ask people to stop having war when they keep picking scabs and or further wounding? How can I stop the unrest pain and hopelessness of many? How do I make them smile and go onward in a positive manner? How can I help them all?  I want everyone to be free to love life. For people to feel loving, happy, & peaceful. If you walk in love you walk with a purpose of making things better. All the good everyone does everywhere matters. All the love everyone gives matters. From giving a compliment to establishing treaties. It all matters. I would like people to achieve balance. I would like the weight of the past that has been on the shoulders of so many to be lifted. I want the fear in the hearts of many to stop. I want love to return to the hearts of everyone who has forgotten how to love. So much possibility and love can be created for so many with changes of heart.  There needs to be healing for many. Help for the sick of mind and body. If that could be achieved in every person it could create ripples for a balanced and loving world. Thinking these questions over and over I brainstormed and came up with the idea for Emotional Awareness, Therapeutic Strategies & Mediation Solutions Programs. I believe it will help. I have personally experienced good advice, compliments and help during different times in my life that has helped me. The right advice or a loving word at the right time has the potential to change someone’s life. Their mindset can change, effecting their mood, choices, and actions. It is powerful.

When most of us are young we learn things like:  playing nice, getting along with others, helping each other, sharing & that we should enjoy your childhood. The fact is we can all play nice, get along, help each other & enjoy our time.

This type of education has the ability to be a tool for the prevention of violence, stopping the creation or exacerbation of mental health conditions & opening up people's eyes that there are options for living a more harmonious & healthier life. The hope of this is that each person utilizing their ability to be a positive influence on each other. Teaching & learning how to heal themselves & others. It creates a strong current of  love energy. With people being good examples for children they will learn how they benefit from listening, speaking, learning information, creating from their minds and by their hands.

 Healthy methods of coping and creating outlets causes progress not derailment. Positive intent, focus, rumination & comforting yourself & others is important. Establishing a better environment for all people in their individual and shared collective experiences. Including the individual actions/ reactions and its effects on the relationship with self, all other relationships involved. People learning they have the ability to reestablish ownership with the choices they make can have a profound effect on what situations are formed . This style of education will help to control Triangulations on an individual basis, helping each person individually and the lives of all collectively by creating a flow of awareness and a neutralization of negative emotions. Learning how to deal with emotions in a constructive manner by channeling it into a creative activity, some form of exercise, education, healing arts  or other ventures could prove to be fruitful. The healing of self and working towards balance of & removing road blocks created by themselves or others.There are detours to use to get back on the path.

Everyone is intelligent. Believe you can learn, get better, and that you make a difference. Sharing the love you have is far more valuable than stuff. Love unlike stuff doesn't break, it can't be stolen & it is never wasted. Don't worry life has a way of working things out, regardless of situation there is always a way.  With an attitude of positivity, and choosing healthier reactions it can stop the poison of negative emotions from depleting peoples energy and breeding negativity. Nurturing the mental, physical  and emotional well being can be something everyone can do. Patience, forgiveness, not hurting yourself and or others, consideration & acceptance are helpful in maintaining peace.  Cultivating positive internal and external emotional reactions, developing coping strategies, adaptive qualities, & tuning into empathic understanding of self and others. The acknowledgement that everyone has emotional aspects of their existence that needs tending to would be a universal help.

 Respecting the lives of people here now would be a great for people to do.( ALSO: animals, nature & the people of the future). It would be better if people were remembered not for their pain they cause or were given, but for their love they gave and received. No one is 100 percent bad, regardless if people think that way or if thats what others think of them. Love has touched their lives and resides in them regardless of who rejects it. Love is everyone's true nature. The people who do bad things can stop doing bad things. They have the ability to change for the better. Love is everyone's true nature. They can find their way back.

So many people have pushed the boundaries of reality and were led by love, by intelligence, by streaming flowing energy of the water of creation that flows in all. Do you feel the flow? Do you feel the current? Calm your crashing seas. It is all energy. Every last bit of it. Empathy can be more intense for some people Learning to adjust regardless of what happens.For the good of one and all. Do you wrap yourself in a blanket of loving memories?  do you light your path with ideas? Do you concentrate on what you love and what you enjoy? Do you take an interest in learning? Do you acknowledge your ability to do amazing things?

Living in this reality I know its not just day dreams, dreams at night, thoughts, ideas, memories, prayers, hopes, goals, information, experiencing the senses, adaptation, evolution, simplification, accomplishment etc. It's not just mental, physical, spiritual or emotional. It is all of that and so much more. There is such good in the world. There is always more to be done & that is a good thing. Right now we are creating memories, remembering memories, having ideas, making plans & participating in actions that have the potential to make things better.

It is amazing how we can all create things from thin air like art, music & conversation. It is beautiful.

When someone grows a garden they bring different elements together. We do that in different aspect of our lives. Some of those elements are water ( emotional flow), sunlight (energy), seeds (ideas) , roots (communication), growth (physical, mental, emotional, analytical work) , & complimenting the processes ( take part, pitch in, create & celebrate.) This is what I want to see inspired by this program.

Enough people have suffered enough pain that we should know hurting and killing doesn't solve anything. Wouldn't it be nice if the people who create diseases and do negative things would have changes of heart and create cures for illnesses and heal people instead. They would be appreciated and remember for the good they do. Their actions reverberating out to others and echoing into the lives of everyone that follows forever in a good way.

 Life is like a kaleidoscope always new, always changing & it can be beautiful to behold.
 
 Education should be fun, enriching and helpful. Children who enjoy learning are more likely to be better in technology, science, math,  engineering, creative work, health, etc .Access to libraries, computer use and educational programing ( in school and at home) is important. Having the possibility of becoming more likely to be and stay interested in learning. This could make them more likely to enjoy school. Doing better & trying harder than they may have because they are stronger within themselves. This making them more likely to go to college, find a career where they get along with others and enjoy the lives they make . This could create more businesses because of people having learned abilities to better communicate with others. People would be more likely to choose careers in healing, education & information also. They will have the skills for empathy. With the existence of the mind body connection this program can help many people with emotional and physical illnesses to treat themselves better & making it more likely they have empathetic doctors. Health insurance would pay out less because of the health benefits of dealing with emotions in a healthy & constructive manner. Less people may end up abusing drugs, going to jail, prison, committing crimes & more.They can be helped. A program like this could create jobs for many fields including the mental health field. It can become be a proponent for peace & a way for us to unify in love.

We can unlearn & relearn.We can pull out the roots of negativity instead of  letting the hate grow with anger, frustration, hate or sadness.We can plant love in the gardens of everyone's minds, unlocking the doors of peoples hearts and preventing a lot of suffering. People can change by choice. Everyone has many choices. Habits can be broken, routines can be adjusted, schedules can be changed, and so can people. The time everyone has here is unpredictable, not always knowing what is next can be excited. You are living! So many people want to live & live happily. Do not fear. Be enthusiastic. Enjoy your time. The when, why, how, who, where, what and endless amount of detail from this world is all wrapped up in each individual projected experience that streams out of light and flows with sound.

Everyone learning how to debate peacefully and come up with conflict resolution in a healthy verbal manner would be helpful. Not allowing our bodies and minds to be projections or tools of hate but instruments for evolution, revolution, education, healing & advancement would be a catalyst for change.

Love is life. Each person is one & together we are one. There is a blossoming of the world at large.

My hopes is that The Governments, The School Systems and the field of Psychology can come together in manifesting the Emotional Awareness, Therapeutic Strategies & Mediation Solutions Programs to make a brighter future for everyone

With love always,

Michelle Cuccia




Friday, February 8, 2013

Great

Quentin Tarantino should add Selma blair to one of his next movies. She is a great actress.

WISHING WELL

"I have a pocket full of change for the next wishing well i see" - Michelle Cuccia

The Magic Words



Johnny Lee Miller & Winona Ryder should star in a remake of Drop Dead Fred. Tim Burton should direct it & Danny Elfman should score it.

Just as Lizzie has to deal with an abusive parent, many children arent able to get help for abuse. Some people act as abusive parent to themselves. Kids shouldn't fear their parents.Love is so important. So is empathy.

  Elizabeth: [to Polly] I'm not afraid of you!
Fred: Finally, the magic words!

 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=drop+dead+fred&oq=drop+dead+fred&gs_l=youtube.3..0l10.1540.4960.0.6181.14.8.0.6.6.0.148.965.1j7.8.0...0.0...1ac.1.BHgAf1PNRwA

 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jonny+lee+miller&oq=johnny+lee+miller&gs_l=youtube.1.0.0i10l10.25845.31069.0.32415.17.15.0.2.2.0.176.1815.2j13.15.0...0.0...1ac.1.f1oWyNaYsz8

 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=selma+blair&oq=selma+blair&gs_l=youtube.3..0l10.23266.26415.0.27927.11.6.0.5.5.0.295.994.1j4j1.6.0...0.0...1ac.1.tDhSbDR-iAo

 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tim+burton&oq=tim+burton&gs_l=youtube.3..0l10.1121176.1123664.0.1124170.10.7.0.3.3.0.135.802.0j7.7.0...0.0...1ac.1.NisP63h-Az0

 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tim+burton+movies&oq=tim+burton+movies&gs_l=youtube.3..0l10.21813.25451.0.25642.17.16.0.1.1.1.227.1915.4j11j1.16.0...0.0...1ac.1.qYK7w8gt3A8

 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=danny+elfman&oq=danny+elfman&gs_l=youtube.3..35i39j0l9.20768.23856.0.24272.12.12.0.0.0.0.290.1624.1j9j2.12.0...0.0...1ac.1.6yIG9LV-SOU

 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=danny+elfman+music&oq=danny+elfman+music&gs_l=youtube.3..35i39j0l3j0i5l5.36759.40677.0.40884.18.18.0.0.0.0.244.2259.3j14j1.18.0...0.0...1ac.1.kwp7teOFpA8

 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=drop+dead+fred+music&oq=drop+dead+fred+music&gs_l=youtube.3..0.158358.159582.0.159860.6.4.0.2.2.0.133.453.1j3.4.0...0.0...1ac.1.tiC5lTMvdIk

KEEP GOING



 

HONEST


https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_rn=2&gs_ri=hp&tok=ud_sE8n5DAKribWKjna39w&cp=13&gs_id=86&xhr=t&q=honest+abe+lincoln&es_nrs=true&pf=p&tbo=d&biw=1366&bih=591&sclient=psy-ab&oq=honest+abe+li&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42080656,d.dmg&fp=a0091817c9b3c677