I keep a daily journal and. As I wrote yesterday, this kept surfacing. I jotted the ideas down on Sticky Notes and let them percolate for the day. This is what dripped from the coffee pot.
Life is a prayer;
A mystery
It holds answers
And unshakeable questions.
In the oneness;
Alchemy loosens–
It transforms
In that mystery.
Prayer is listening;
It is an ordinary passage of time
It is the extraordinary voyage of life
Unpretentious, fully lived quest.
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 
Seems you should put that same coffee in the pot more often. Wonderful words dripped out.
Thank you. What is interesting is I don’t drink coffee. I am tea drinker but took a little poetic license.
You’re allowed.
Amen!
Thank you.
I haven’t seen you for a long time. Thank you for visiting my blog.
You are welcome. It is has been a bit busy and hectic so I have been less consistent.
Such a solemn and beautiful prayer!
“This is what dripped from the coffee pot.”
This reminds me of what the Hungarian Mathematician Paul Erdos famously said: Mathematicians take coffee as input and churn theorems as output. (I hope I understood your sentence correctly.)
Thank you Rex. You got all the spelling correct.
Excellent composition.
Thank you Lvsrao.
I loved the description ” dripping from the coffee pot” A beautiful and very poetic post! Thanks 🙂
Thank you and you are welcome. I think the comment might have been meant for someone else, but I gratefully accept all appreciation.
My mistake; I forgot I put the comment in the prose sectiom.
I understood this was a post you had written yourself hence the comment but if it was anothers which you had posted I thank you for that
You are welcome. I get a little confused some times so I am grateful when people are patient.
No problem, it happens to all of us, it’s not that easy to follow all the comments and our numerous posts 🙂