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Welcome to Honor Your Truth The “Is It True?” Series Episode Five “The world is flat” I just want to tell you here that I have no idea how it was discovered that the planet earth was indeed round……no idea. I don’t remember even having history at St. Michaels. However, I can’t imagine that we didn’t. After grade school, I attended a public high school which was classified “experimental”. It was the seventies. I don’t know if that explains anything. What I do know is there were hardly any walls in our school. We had big areas with a few orange colored partitions like large cubicles. Crossover between classes was a continuous issue. If one was out of control, they were all off the hook. Without separation to contain and maintain any level of sanity, it was often complete mayhem. The teachers couldn’t all talk at once, so we were on the “packet system”. Teachers handed out packets at the beginning of the quarter. We turned them in at the end and took a test. Other than that, we were pretty much on our own. They’d come around sometimes and check our progress, answer questions. Every now and then, they would throw a pop quiz at us. During finals, there was a class by class procession to a special testing area downstairs. I can picture the woman who monitored us. She never smiled, but it had to be a pretty boring job. I don't know how much I truly retained beyond turning in my pencil and handing over the test.This school eventually closed for many reasons, but I was already gone. They bussed kids to Central. All of this may or may not be the cause for my lack of knowledge concerning historical facts. I do care and I am curious, but in the interest of time, I choose to prioritize. I have good intentions but there are only so many hours in any given day. Now, I know the earth is round, but up until some point in time, people did not know this. They thought if you walked a little too far, you would fall off the edge. It was a process of courage, discovery, trust, acceptance and action. The courage to wonder, discovering the truth, trusting their perception, accepting how it affected them, and taking action based on this information. My life continues to revolve….evolve. My perception can and does change. If I gather new information or learn something new about myself, I can do things differently if I choose to. I have learned to trust my perception in the moment. I am also conscious enough to recognize when it has made a shift. In some instances, this may require humility. Truth is more important then pride. I feel weird otherwise and I don’t sleep well. It is kinder to both myself and other people, if I Honor My Truth! So, I am working on it, one day at a time. Debra Hadraba Honor Your Truth Inspiration+Action “The world is flat”

• Release Date

  Mar 12, 2009

• Runtime

  02:19