For a long time, I stayed in the closet about The Secret. In fact, when I was studying for my fancy, ivy league Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) degree, The Secret had just come out on film and it was a dirty word amongst my colleagues and professors, especially. Many were afraid (ahem...
Snow, even in April. (6 months since the first snow fall, but who's counting and on what measures?) The intricacies of a flower; no man created that and the blessings of montezuma's revenge to cleanse and heal as we really welcome spring to be experienced as if for the first time with beginners' eyes really open hearts remembering to choose love minimizing judgment a p p r e c i a t i n g < embracing > simple joys....
This is a keynote presentation I gave last week in Oaxaca, Mexico at a conference that brings together social entrepreneurs from around the world working on cool ideas to solve the worlds' problems. Here's what I said (and my slides follow): This is my brother Todd (put up image of his picture and the year of his life 1971)—born 1971, probably a little taller than me – I wish you could hear his laugh --- a guy who knows pure joy and would get that ear to ear grin; lots of fun, handsome, confident, wise.…sooooo creative, a brilliant piano player, visual artist, a...
--perfectly me, perfectly imperfect, unfinished. ...
I wrote this paper during my Masters in the Foundations of Education -- a year or so before I had discovered positive psychology (or as I like to think sometimes: how positive psychology found me). It was before I thought the words "SOcial-eMOtional leadership" -- I had a vision for it. I sensed/intuited the need. Rereading it now gives my life such a re-membered sense of meaning & purpose. Thank you for sharing it with me. ********* Louis J. Alloro March 18, 2006 CURR 534 Change Paper It is unfortunate that we have trained to believe that change can not happen – or at the very...
I am honored to be included in this beautiful line up with Entheos -- International Day of Happiness. (Next year, we'll shoot for greater diversity!) ...
[caption id="attachment_1192" align="alignleft" width="150"] Me and my twin sister, Christine at age 3. Monkey heads![/caption] I've been looking through old photos lately -- pictures of Little Louis, a little monkey whose head was always slightly larger than his body -- until his body became larger than anything else. I was a fat kid. (That's largely my story.) I remember being age9 and not fitting in the GAP jeans mom wanted to buy me. I was devastated. We had to go to the "special store." Not long thereafter, I went to Weight Watcher meetings with my Aunt Mary Ann at the VFW in...
--no grass grew under my feet! [caption id="attachment_1186" align="alignleft" width="399"] Louis c. 1982[/caption] ...
My brother Todd (1971-1991) made this (c. 1989) on top of a canvas that I already painted. I love everything about it. ...
[caption id="attachment_1174" align="alignleft" width="300"] These are my most beautiful parents on the night of their 50th wedding anniversary party, August 2013[/caption] I am a (maybe 'the') suitability zealot in our family. On holidays, I'm the one to take out a second pail to recycle all of the wine and water bottles we go through. I'm often given a hard time by the "powers-that-be" that it's just too much work on a day with such hustle and bustle. "But look," I'd say, "It's really not. Look how easy this is," as I'd affix a sign on the one pail that says "recycle...