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You're Not Alone in Life's Dark Places

Posted by Guest Blogger on May 16, 2012

Joel and Alissa

Raised in New England, educated in the northeast, midwest, Japan, Hawaii, and a long time resident of the Islands. After serving as a high school and college teacher and administrator, Joel later became an employee benefits specialist and insurance company marketing vice president.

Since 1990, he's provided consulting services (employee benefits, group insurance, human resource issues, and education) to individuals, schools and corporate clients. The focus of his community service is on organizations representing people with disabilities and their families and, recently, in gathering people interested in discussing end-of-life issues. The article below is about his daughter Alissa, who died at the age of 32. You're welcome to contact Joel directly.

Our most influential teachers might be people we never meet, never sit in their class. We know them through books, oral history, stories. Yet, the same mystery of teacher-student relationship exists—as the saying goes, "when you're ready, a teacher appears." The function of good teachers is to help us see things in new ways.

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