I started out with Hole in the Doughnut as a title for this poem. That had played in the recesses of my mind off and on all day. But as the poem wrote itself, I realized that might too trite even if it seemed accurate. Who has eaten a doughnut without a hole? The hole completes the doughnut. Without the hole the doughnut is a bagel.
Busy trying to fill a hole–
Plug a gap
But to no avail–
So futile;
Go dig a hole in the ocean.
Hole and whole indivisible;
Not just a play on words–
Are complete only together
Beauty in paradoxical relationship.
It invites
Calls to us
Embraces fully
Adds welcome tension–
The rhythm of life lived.
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 
<<<likes doughnuts even the ones without holes lol
It brought back memories of my grandmother making doughnuts. We called them beignes in French and she let us sugar them. It was pretty special. She used the dough from the holes to make small round doughnut without holes.
Insight expression. Well said .
Thank you for the kind words Ivsrao.
I LIKE it. Thought-provoking and fun. I’ve got to sign off now to take care of a commitment, but I’ve promised myself a much longer visit real soon!
Russ
Thank you Russ for this visit and the future one.
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