Learn Every Day

One of the greatest things in life is that with every step, you learn. OK. God-willing, you learn.

I can’t imagine a day going by where I didn’t learn something. Whether that was the fact I didn’t like brussel sprouts, or that books are cheaper on-line, or that I love the way sunlight streams into my office around 10:00 AM, every day, I’ve learned something new.

Learning isn’t always about reading, or listening to professors or gurus. Often I’ve found that learning is about studying things. Observing. Watching and taking in life. Listening to yourself mostly among others.

Learning comes in all sorts of packages - from the policeman that gives you a parking ticket (oh! I didn’t know I couldn’t park here!), to the child that tells you pink is her favorite color because it’s the color of the inside of her puppy’s ear. Learning is delightful when you approach it in a simple way. And if you make it a part of every day, you feel good that you took in just one more piece of life and swallowed it whole.

Ilana M. Blumberg, author of Houses of Study, wrote in the preface of her book, “I believed that to learn was to live. To study and study and study was to become good, and possibly great, and, in any event, to do what one (what I) was born to do. Today I can see that this deeply held faith made me what I now am…”

I guess I feel the same way.

So today, you know that I think you can make every day a holiday by learning something new.

In this section, I’ll cover how-to’s, tips, and things that can help you in your everyday life. They are random, but hopefully, you’ll be able to rely on a place you can come if you feel you just haven’t really learned enough today.

And, as always, I’m always open to your suggestions. Leave your comments below, or, you can contact me at iMEDAH(@) gmail.com. (of course you can format that right, right?) I look forward to passing along learning and the love of it, here.

Tell me how you feel about learning?