Poetry and Trees

Posted on October 2, 2013 by ivonprefontaine

They are also home to squirrels. Yesterday, as I walked back from the library, I saw a young man chasing a squirrel. I seemed the squirrel saw it as a game. It was almost like a dog and boy playing as they went around the tree first one way and then the other. Finally, the squirrel went up the tree far enough that he could not be reached and looked back down.

GYA today

October is national poetry month in Great Britain. Other countries celebrate in different months. Let’s share this one throughout the world with a whimsical poem from an American poet who lost his life in France during World War I.

Join me, please, in celebrating harmony …in poets, people, and countries.

Enjoy!

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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.

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  1. Julia | October 2, 2013 at 4:58 pm

    Yes, squirrels are delightful. They have consistenly eaten up any tomatoes I’ve grown, so I gave up on that. But watching their energy and ingenuity has more than compensated for the irritation of having them chew through whatever interests them!

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    • ivonprefontaine | October 3, 2013 at 12:34 am

      My mother-in-law used to complain about the deer in her garden. Despite all the complaining, she never put up a fence. A fence would have eliminated their visits and she did not want that.

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  2. Julia | October 2, 2013 at 4:59 pm

    Yes, squirrels are delightful. They have consistenly eaten up any tomatoes I’ve grown, so I gave up on that. But watching their energy and ingenuity has more than compensated for the irritation of having them chew through whatever interests them!

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  4. melanielynngriffin | October 6, 2013 at 10:12 pm

    Thank God – My frame of mind is such that I thought the squirrel was going to run out in the road and get run over! Wow. This morning I noticed that the most popular topic on my blog lately is death …. when I investigated, I found that half of my posts lately deal with it.
    Time for me to read some Winnie-the-Pooh.
    Nice to discover your blog – I am considering taking up teaching college writing here in the U.S. as a second career.
    Blessings-

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    • ivonprefontaine | October 7, 2013 at 4:35 pm

      I think we go through periods where different themes emerge. Sometimes it runs below the radar and it takes something to surface them. I am looking forward to following your reflections on Winnie the Pooh.

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