I ready for my Sabbath break. Yesterday morning, this Bizarro cartoon was in my blog reader. Todd’s posts are short and provocative, so the link is to his site for those who have not been there before. He gives me pause to think.
I shared this cartoon with a circle of acquaintance. We discussed the Most Interesting Man in the World advertisements for an adult beverage. I am an abstainer so the ads are humourous, but there is no chance I will buy the product.
What about a broader message? Instead of closing with “Stay Thirsty My Friends” or “Stay Filthy My Friend”, we could say, “Stay Human my Friends”?
Thich Nhat Hanh reminds me, “find the ordinary in the extraordinary.” I often miss those things which make me most alive and human. I find, in the ordinary so often missed, the extraordinary and live a mindful life.
Stay human my friends
Be one with the universe
Be compassionate.
About ivonprefontaine
In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms.
I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders.
I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs.
I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry.
I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry.
I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope and its anticipatory relationship with the future, and hope as an essential element in learning.
ivonprefontaine
Teacher as Transformer 
Such a simple phrase – but weighty!
It is interesting where we can draw some inspiration from.
Even the land of cartoons! 🙂
Stay human, it’s what binds us.
Absolutely, it is the glue.
The simple ones are the best.
I agree Alex.
Yes, ‘stay human, my friends’, sounds like a good blessing.
Now that you mention it, Shimon, it does. I thank you for that.
Brilliant!
And .. Join in..if you’d like, I think its fun..http://allaboutlemon.com/2012/11/10/for-the-love-of-haiku-10-men/
Thank you.
I wonder what we would say to pirates? Perhaps, “stay rebellious my friend”?
Interesting as always. Not quite the greeting one would expect from a dry cleaner, but then we are living in different times and would not be surprised to hear that one day.
Because your observations of this world provoke deep thought and inspiration, I wish to nominate you for “One Lovely Blog Award” Thank you for being a great teacher to all! xo
Bizarro is awesome. It’s one of two things I usually read in the paper! 😉
I see the cartoons as the education section of any newspaper.
😉