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<\/a>Among the two or three hundred substitute teachers that Pueblo welcomes every school year, very few can boast that they have published a book, attended the legendary Woodstock Music Festival in 1969 and dress better than most of our contract teachers.<\/p>\nMs. Diane Donato is definitely difficult to miss. She loves fashion\u2014her <\/strong>fashion\u2014and she wears it well.<\/p>\n \u201cThe way you dress truly represents yourself to the world,\u201d Donato said. \u201cWhen you look better, you feel better.\u201d<\/p>\n Donato feels so strongly about clothing and fashion that she based her published book, Clothes Encounters of the Divine Kind<\/em><\/a>, on the premise that what she wears has made\u2014and continues to make\u2014a colossal difference in her own spiritual awakening and that her attire has helped her to \u201cheal\u201d from a series of personal tragedies in her past.<\/p>\n Raised in Waterbury, Conn., Donato said that she grew up \u201ca free spirit\u201d. After graduating high school in 1967, she attended college and was among the millions of young people protesting the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n \u201cI wanted to help the world become a better place,\u201d Donato said. \u201cI still would love to help save the world.\u201d<\/p>\n She added that she \u201ctook a break\u201d in the middle of her college years in August 1969 to attend the Woodstock Music and Art Festival in upstate New York\u2014known today as simply \u201cWoodstock\u201d\u2014where nearly half a million people rejoiced in their generation\u2019s greatest musical artists.<\/p>\n \u201cI definitely identified with much of the music from that era,\u201d Donato said. \u201cOne of that era\u2019s greatest songs was John Lennon\u2019s \u2018Give Peace A Chance\u2019, which is still as relevant today as it was nearly 40 years ago. I\u2019m all about world peace.\u201d<\/p>\n After a lot of cold winters and expensive real estate, Donato ventured to Arizona at age 65, a few years after she retired.<\/p>\n \u201cI really want to be a motivational speaker,\u201d she said. \u201cI have a lot to say to a lot of people. One thing I would like to tell all young people is that they should take risks and follow their passions.\u201d<\/p>\n Donato\u2019s book, Clothes Encounters of the Divine Kind<\/em>, is available at Barnes and Noble or online at Amazon<\/em> in both soft and hard covers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Jessica Prado Among the two or three hundred substitute teachers that Pueblo welcomes every school year, very few can boast that they have published a book, attended the legendary Woodstock Music Festival in 1969 and dress better than most of our contract teachers. Ms. Diane Donato is definitely difficult to miss. She loves fashion\u2014her … Continue reading Sub Speaks Out, Encourages Students To Take Risks, Dress For Success<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,208],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pA2u4-LA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2953,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions\/2953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n