Everyone desires and deserves a happy life. But in life, happiness doesn’t always come easy. One blemish in life is verbal abuse: negative words that influence how we feel about ourselves, feeling rejected and unacceptable. Words hurt if we allow them to. As a Fine Arts teacher, I saw children suffer abuse from their peers as I did as a child. I try to encourage them to endure by choosing to look above cruel words and search for the beauty …
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As defined in the dictionary, bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively dominate others. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. The different contexts are: Cyberbullying, disability bullying, gay bullying, legal bullying, military bullying, parental bullying, prison bullying, school bullying, sexual bullying, trans bullying, and workplace bullying. Innocence. Where has it gone? Does it feel as though it’s erased by insensitivity or killed by lack of compassion. Bullying is a vehicle of fear …
How many of you can visit a place and feel the strangeness of your surroundings? I remembered when I was on tour with my university’s acapella choir. We had different assigned places to stay. It was the first time I felt we, my assigned partner, were in an unsafe place. We only stayed there over night, but I remember my roommate turning to me and saying, “Were you feeling what I felt?” Then it was clear, that we both felt …
A native of Texas, Mary Diggs is a Christian, a wife, a mother, and holder of Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Vocal music with emphasis in art from Prairie View A&M University, and taught music, elementary art, and theatre arts in public school for years before retiring.