Dear Avalon family,
Today’s Take Heart comes to you as a riddle! Are you ready to solve the riddle?!!
What does it mean when I say Betty is serving milk and cookies?
Clue #1
Here is one of my favorite excerpts from a simple book called, “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” by Robert Fulgrum. It is such a sweet way to look at life. I especially love the line that suggests it would be a different world if we all sat down and had cookies and milk around 3pm every day. How I wish that we could all live this way.
All I Really Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten
Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain but there in the sandbox at nursery school.
These are the things I learned:
Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess.
Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup – they all die. So do we.
And then, remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and sane living.
Think of what a better world it would be if we all – the whole world – had cookies and milk at 3 o’clock every afternoon and then, lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
Clue #2
It then occurred to me that I can live this way when I choose. I got to thinking that at Avalon, we help people hear the best they can for life…their life now and for years to come. You might say that we adopt you!
We help people reconnect to what matters most to them in life. Avalon is a relationship-based, hearing healthcare practice committed to educating people about their unique hearing loss and how best to treat it.
Clue #3
These days, you can buy hearing aids just about anywhere. Buying hearing aids is not the answer to treating hearing loss. Yes. You read that correctly. Buying hearing aids is not the answer to treating hearing loss. It is part of the answer but not the entire answer.
So, what’s the other part of treating your hearing loss? I’ll give you a clue! It has to do with your relationships. The best hearing aids in the world, fitted by the most competent and caring hearing healthcare provider can fail miserably if your loved ones don’t understand your unique hearing loss. And if they don’t understand their part in making communication easier for both of you.
Let’s put the three sort-of-clues together
Had milk and cookies around 3pm
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Committed to educating people
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It has to do with your relationships
What do you think I am trying to tell you?
If you guessed that I am holding regular classes where I will educate you and your loved ones, you got it!
Sign up for my Masterclass
This masterclass on How to Live Happily Ever After with Hearing Loss is designed for a person who wears hearing aids AND their loved one (husband, wife, son or daughter, or close friend).
Imagine if you and your loved one could STOP coping with hearing loss and actually START connecting more easily and more playfully in spite of hearing loss! Imagine if we created a time and place where you could do all of this AND be served cookies and milk! (Or coffee and tea.) And imagine that we could do this in the spirit of being in kindergarten again. Everyone eager to learn and try out new things. Playful. Informative. Fun.
If you and a loved one are ready to transcend just COPING with hearing loss, call (916) 235-9771 and book your seats at the upcoming Masterclass on Friday January 26th at 1:30pm – 3:00pm, just in time for milk and cookies!!!
Hugs,
💙 Betty Vosters-Kemp, BC-HIS
Owner, Avalon Hearing Aid Centers, Inc.
Board Certified Hearing Instrument Specialist
P.S. This Masterclass is limited to 20 people so call to reserve your seat now. If you can’t make January 26th, book yourself into my February 23rd class, now.