I spent a great day on Sunday. I read, had a major nap which caused me to struggle sleeping last night, and spent time with friends doing pizza. I was completely disconnected. It is in these moments I find my voice.
I’m tired
I’m whipped
too dumb to quit
too smart
to let life go by
I’m working hard
to find truth
in my own backyard
I’ve done everything
but die
Took the long way around
on a short ride to town
found a pass
where few have been
Gained a love
lost a friend
scraped my knees
learning to please
started out
with no choice
somewhere
somehow
found my
voice.
It is a journey; not a destination. Take care and have a great 17th of July.
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, nonviolence and its anticipatory relationship with the future, as essential elements to teaching and learning.
Academic publications can be found at Ivon Gile Prefontaine on ResearchGate
ivonprefontaine
Teacher as Transformer 
Great Lines ! True inner voice ! Amazingly written with sweet natural flow of thoughts carrying beautiful words !
Yes, this poem resonated with me. At the end of the day, it is the overcoming that gives us voice and challenges us to find our calling or vocation. Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate the many times you haves stopped by.
Ivon