Levels of Communication 2 交际面面观 showing pictures of your kids, and exchanging personal history. 秀你孩子们的照片，和概括性的自我介绍。 Factual communication is relatively safe and most do this well. 事实沟通是相对安...
Levels of Communication 3 交际面面观 Evaluative communication: Offering opinions, ideas and judgments to others. 评价交流：告诉别人自己的观点，主意和评价。 This is risky business because the odds are that others will give th...
Levels of Communication 4 交际面面观 Emotional communication: involves sharing our emotions and feelings with another. We are sharing our inner-self when we allow others to know our heart. This is risky business! Societies place constraints upon...
A Harder, Better Goodbye 更难却更好的永别 Mother complained of a pain in her ribs. 我母亲曾抱怨她的肋骨疼。 She was a yoga lover, an ocean swimmer, a woman who at 72 looked ten years younger. 她是瑜伽爱好者，海洋游泳运动...
Use swabs to wet her mouth, the nurse told me. Hold her hand. 护士告诉我用棉签蘸水湿润她的嘴唇，举起她的手。 Her senses are dimming, but hearing will linger. Tell her you love her. 她的意识逐渐消退，但是还能够听见...
Lying to a Loved One 情人的谎言 What are the benefits of lying to a loved one? Whether we like it or not, our relationships are held together, not only by telling the truth, but also by knowing how and when to lie. And if the truth be told, our...
The Road to Success 成功之道 It is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of t...
One Girl Changed My Life 一位女孩改变了我的生活 My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, a ceaseless quest for expression, skill, and experience. School was only a background to the supreme delight of lessons in mus...
Always Changing 人生处处是转角 Please excuse me if Im a little pensive today. 如果我今天有点郁郁寡欢,请原谅我。 Mark is leaving, and Im feeling kind of sad. 马克要走了,我感到有点难过。 You probably dont know Mark,...
A Tribute to the Dog 写给忠诚的狗 The best friend a man has in the world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those who...
An Hour before Sunrise 日出前的一小时 An hour before sunrise in the city there is all air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets, which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the qui...
Freedom parrot 呼喊自由的鹦鹉 A man, a great man, a fighter for freedom was traveling in the mountains. He stayed in a caravans for the night. He was amazed that in the caravans there was a beautiful parrot in a golden cage, continually repeat...
The first snow 初雪 The first snow came.How beautiful it was, falling so silently, all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead! 初雪来了。她是多么美丽。一整天，...
The Language of Music 音乐的语言 A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilitie...
The story goes that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. 话说两个好朋友正在穿越一个沙漠。途中他们忽然争吵了起来，...
