Nurture Sage

  Thank You, COVID19! A Love Letter to the deadliest virus since the Spanish Flu October 31st, 2020 11.27 pm Dear COVID19, Thank you for showing us homo sapiens that we aren't invincible.  That we suck at work-life balance.  That we're toxic to nature - rivers, animals and birds thrive and come out to play without us. That we're toxic to ourselves - we lower our own immune systems by our lifestyle choices, leading to pre-existing conditions, and we actually live and spend money so our medication can help us get away with it. We shouldn't get away with it. Many of us haven't, because of you. We should live properly. Eat properly. Exercise properly. Rest properly. Commune with family properly. Wash our hands properly, and regularly. Be careful how we cough and sneeze, and if we can't, wear masks because others don't deserve to catch the germs WE harbour. You came and reminded us of that. You reminded us that too much of what we do for a living is actually quit...

Greetings from Nurture Sage My name is N zinga S ibongile Job. Welcome to N urture S age, my educator blog. I became an official teacher of music on September 15th 2008, at the age of 27, on the island of Tobago in the Caribbean.  I started teaching as a little girl, younger than age 10, with a toy blackboard and chalk.  I am a born expresser - a throat-chakra-dominant person. I wrote my first poem aged 6, directed my first play adaptation aged 8, and now I'm a 39 year-old singer/songwriter/music educator. I have spent my life dreaming about - and, until recently, getting bitter about my limitations in - gaining mastery in all the main modes of expression - drawing, painting, sculpting, writing, composing, acting, dancing, arranging, directing, orating.  I originally felt driven to learn to teach well, because it's the only job giving you any hands-on parenting training; after all, parenting is basically teaching children what they need to know to survive and thrive, and...