This is a wonderful image and quote from Plato. We each become a poet when we touch the world with love.
At the touch of love
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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 ResearchGate15 responses »
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Lovely, thanks for a smile to start the day!
Thank you and you are welcome.
How lovely..
It is.
Absolutely because poetry brings out the best of imagination from a human mind and brain. The essence of poetry gives rise to unrequited love because of beautiful words and wonderful imaery.
Thank you for a wonderful comment Swati.
Plato has written a great deal about love.
The photo is magnificent!
It is. It must have taken considerable patience to catch the butterflies like that.
Lovely
Thank you Vicki.
What a beautiful nature photo. I used to like to take up close nature photos with my “fancy” film camera. Now, I cannot show them off, and don’t use the camera much. My knowledge of how to operate my digital has not (and perhaps never will) reach that level. It makes me especially appreciate the work you do-and share. Best wishes, beebee
Beebee, I took pictures of butterflies and dragonflies last summer. It took many shots. I admire photographers, such as yourself, who have that patience and capture nature for us.
Charming shot. Those who fly, and those who creep…
It is beautiful and would take extreme patience I suspect.