I keep blurry pictures. They remind me life is not always in sharp focus and there are times to step back, pause, and reflect.
The spirit wearies
A voice from within speaks
Seeks reflective time.
Quietly turn inward
Listen to an inner voice
Seek counsel and wisdom.
Pay homage and celebrate
While pain reveals character
New paths carved into wilderness.
Cherish each moment’s gift
Arrival and departure
Grateful for life.
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 
You have a sharp focus on one of the branches of that tree on the left… I like the poem.
Thank you Shimon
Beautiful pen Ivon
Beautiful poem Ivon
Thank you David.
Lovely poem expressing life… It (life) sure is a mixture…!
It is a lovely mix of the good and not-so-good. Thank you Carolyn.
i like blurry pictures very nice poem as well!
Thoughtful and beautiful, great insight Ivon 🙂
Thank you Judy.
Love the poem, and the idea… life is often a blur, I feel…..
It is a blur. Thank you for the kind comments Valerie.
Very good effort! 🙂
Thank you for taking time to read.
Love the reflective notes in this. 🙂
Thank you.
I love your poem.
Thank you for stopping and commenting.
Lovely poem and photographs!
Thank you Elisa.