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Day 1: The Gift

Reblogged from the living notebook:

The power of creation is a gift, and the writer is a fool who thinks the gift comes from inside themselves alone.

Even the most selfish writer must admit that ideas come from outside the body---whether this means the people, places, and things that form the inspiration for a story; the existing works of art the writer loves; or the language in which their ideas find expression---an idea is never the exclusive property of the writer, but exists halfway between the writer and the world.

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Each day we set out, interact with our environment and its inhabitants, and write a story in some medium. We create and author our life's story in this fashion.

About ivonprefontaine

I have been an educator for almost 20 years. Prior to that, I worked in private industry for 15 years, then returned to university to earn my education degree. For the past 11 years, I have been a co-creator of learning in a unique, progressive, alternative educational school of choice. Currently, I am engaged in a doctoral program at Gonzaga University in Spokane. A main theme in my learning there has been the roles of systems thinking, complexity theory, and organizational theory, and how they apply to education generally and the learning environment I share with students, parents, and colleagues.

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  1. Amazing post, Ivon! Thanks for your generosity of sharing this to us!

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