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Final Signatures Tallied for Dear Colleague Letters
Two Dear Colleague letters, the Mikulski Dear Colleague letter in the U.S. Senate and the Miller-Van Hollen Dear Colleague letter in the U.S. House of Representatives, were recently circulated to increase funding for professional development programs in the FY …
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Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) sent out a Dear Colleague letter in the U.S. Senate asking members to support increasing the Title II set-aside for national professional development programs, including the National Writing Project, to 5 percent.
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Why is this campaign important to you?
Being able to express yourself on paper or on a word program is important in how other people see you. It touches everything here - getting a job, being clear in relationships.
…More importantly to me, being able to put your troubles on paper OBJECTIFIES them. It gets them out of your brain's anguish center and laid out in front of you. This, in my opinion, is worth many visits to a psychologist. If you can SEE your problem, you can begin to get a handle on it. It may not fix it, but...
Being able to express yourself on paper or on a word program is important in how other people see you. It touches everything here - getting a job, being clear in relationships.
More importantly to me, being able to put your troubles on paper OBJECTIFIES them. It gets them out of your brain's anguish center and laid out in front of you. This, in my opinion, is worth many visits to a psychologist. If you can SEE your problem, you can begin to get a handle on it. It may not fix it, but it will be the first step in your fixing it. If you can then imagine it into a story and give the problem to a made-up character, whoa! You will be amazed: that character might take on a life and solve your problem for you!
Also, writing fiction, and especially poetry, is offering other people an incredibly holy (that's the only word here!) chance to experience your own soul's expression. In ways we are like people floating in space, in little space bubbles. We gravitate to those who smell right (!) and we think we know them. But, really, we never know another's thoughts: except through those instances when we 'get' the poetic expression of another being.
Yes, we need science and math and computer smarts. But without music and word they have no soul.