Today I appreciated having the opportunity to discuss the first half of the book we're reading this quarter, Happiness is a Choice You Make. It left me with a mixture of emotions, and I listed the questions that came to my mind while I was reading as the discussion questions. The book made me think a lot about ethics, personal values and beliefs. I could only answer these questions with hypothetical situations, so I greatly appreciate my peers sharing personal anecdotes about family members and loved ones. I know for many of them, this discussion was very personal and emotional, and I just want to say that I appreciate and respect their decision to be vulnerable and open with the class for the sake of our learning. It takes a lot of courage to share and disclose what many of them contributed, and I am forever grateful. Meanwhile, we have been making slow but steady progress on our HAP, Recipes for Life. We shared with the class that we would love for them to reach out to their EP's and ask for them to contribute, so I hope those recipes will be rolling in soon. In the meantime, I have been trying to collect recipes via asking friends who I know are close to older folks to help me out with this project. It has been working decently well so far as I have gotten two responses in the past week, so fingers crossed for more responses and further success! One concern that Andrew and I came across for our HAP is providing a photo of the completed dish for each recipe. I previously thought that we could simply find a photo online, but Andrew reminded me that there would be copyright issues tied to doing that. Currently, we are pushing folks to submit photos of the dish along with their recipe, but I think our backup plan is to prepare the dish ourselves and then take pictures of it. This definitely sounds like a time-consuming and expensive process, so I'm hoping we won't have to resort to that.
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