I am off for my Sabbath and perhaps an extra day. Kathy and I are going to British Columbia via Jasper National Park and Mount Robson Provincial Park. I suspect there will be some pictures forthcoming. My mother celebrates her 88th birthday and it is an important event each year. She is the last of her generation in our family.
Fireweed is a common plant which grows in temperate areas of North America. It is hardy and is often planted in areas which are disturbed i.e. fire or oil spills. I am using it to carry me into my Sabbath and help heal the spirit.
It’s common enough
Beside paths I traverse
Lights the path homeward.
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
Teacher as Transformer 
Great photo Ivon. Enjoy your trip. No doubt that you’ll have great shots….
Enjoy Ivon! An important trip indeed…
Ivon, I have nominated you for an award… I’d be pleased were you to accept…
http://abcofspiritalk.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/big-thank-you/
Carolyn, thank you. As soon as I get into a spot where I have a few hours to work on this I will follow through. We are on the road for the next day or two.
Take care,
Ivon
Yes, I appreciate that Ivon. Enjoy your travels…
Fireweed! I’ve often wondered what that plant was called. 🙂
Elizabeth, it is called Rosebay Willowherb in Britain and in some parts of North America it is called Great Willow-Herb.
I checked on that when I posted. I thought it might be we called it that locally and it was called something else, but it is widely known as Fireweed in North America.
Ivon
“Lights the path homeward.” I love the sound and image of that! Thank you for your post, Ivon!
Russ