Steady my harried pace

Posted on August 12, 2013 by ivonprefontaine

What a great poem David posted. Take a moment and read it slowly.

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Wilferd Arlan Peterson (1900–95) was born in Whitehall, Michigan and lived most of his life in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was an American author who wrote for This Week magazine (a national Sunday supplement in newspapers distributed to 13,000,000 readers). For twenty-five years, he wrote a monthly column for Science of Mind magazine. He published nine books starting in 1949 with The Art of Getting Along: Inspiration for Triumphant Daily Living.” Peterson was regarded as “one of the best loved American writers of the 20th century, renowned for his inspirational wisdom and aphoristic wit” by the Independent Publishers Group. His influences include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Abraham Lincoln, among many others. His contemporaries include Norman Vincent Peale and Dale Carnegie, and current writers and philosophers such as Jack Canfield and Brian Tracy have referred to Peterson’s works. He was married to Ruth Irene Rector Peterson (1921-79)…

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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, 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

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  1. Catherine Johnson's avatar Catherine Johnson | August 12, 2013 at 5:36 pm

    Thanks for sharing this. Very wise words.

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  2. Perpetua's avatar seeker | August 13, 2013 at 3:10 am

    Thank you re-blogging the prayer I posted that David re-blogged.

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  3. maaffeld's avatar maaffeld | August 13, 2013 at 5:03 pm

    This would be me! 🙂 I wholeheartedly thoroughly appreciate the valuable reminder – often also echoed to me by my dear family and friends! Getting better at slowing my harried pace, believe it or not, in my advancing age! Priorities also becoming much clearer; ironic, as the sense of sight diminishes….. Thanks for the ever so insightful post, again, Ivon!

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  4. nodimlight's avatar nodimlight | August 31, 2013 at 12:44 pm

    Wonderful way to start my day! How many times have I felt guilty for pausing. In pausing you grow. you grow by rooting deep. a tree without roots cannot bear the weight of it’s own branches, nor can it produce good fruit because the source of living water cannot be obtained. Thank you for this!

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