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The SEL Friendship Song That Starts With a Bench and No Words

There’s a bench at Bert Ambrose Elementary School in Fort St. John, BC that doesn’t look like much.

It sits on the playground. It has a name. And when a student sits down on it, every kid in that school knows what it means.

It means…I don’t have anyone to play with right now.

You don’t have to raise your hand. You don’t have to talk to a teacher. You don’t need words. Just be willing to be seen in on

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“The value of taking risks through all stages of life is constant...it's the excuses that change.”
Rik Leaf, Four Homeless Millionaires - How One Family Found Riches By Leaving Everything Behind

“For an artist, screams of adoration and praise is the reward for spilling your guts on the stage”
Rik Leaf

“The value of taking risks through all stages of life is constant...it's the excuses that change.”
Rik Leaf, Four Homeless Millionaires - How One Family Found Riches By Leaving Everything Behind

“For an artist, screams of adoration and praise is the reward for spilling your guts on the stage”
Rik Leaf

“Faith is not an anchor; it's a gnawing suspicion that things don’t have to be this way”
Rik Leaf, Four Homeless Millionaires - How One Family Found Riches By Leaving Everything Behind

“Gatekeepers hate change, change swaps the locks on the doors of opportunity and one day they wake up 

and find they no longer hold the keys”
Rik Leaf, Four Homeless Millionaires - How One Family Found Riches By Leaving Everything Behind

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