I was sitting in the library this afternoon and this began to form first in my head then on the screen. Usually, there is an intermediate phase and I jot something down. This was more spontaneous than normal and I think it is a bit rough around the edges, but I liked it when I re-read it.
The week end–
Sabbath arrives;
I disconnect–
I find new rhythm;
Here, I am soul full–
Here, my soul retrieves me.
It’s a mystery–
Reveals undefinable spaciousness;
Sans mots–
Without sound, it rescues me;
Yet, I hear its voice–
It offers refuge;
It guides me home.
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 
Profound & beautiful!
Thank you.
it has real movement. It sweeps you up right away.
Thank you for the lovely comment.
Nice~ They say the more you write, the easier it comes- seems like it’s paying off nicely in the ease you say it came with…
That may have been the case. I had just finished a couple of writing assignments so my mind may have opened up a bit.
Hello, Yvon. I discovered your blog this weekend and it’s been a pleasure to read you.
You’re resourceful and inspiring, a real ‘transformer’. To celebrate LIFE is the main purpose of a thoughtful mind.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the kind words. I look forward to following your blog. It will help the French part of me.
Beautiful.
Thank you Lvsrao. I am enjoying your recent posts. It is nice to be reading your thoughts again.
Very kind of you, sir.
Inspiration flow rampart in the library. Good piece.
Thank you.
I have nominated you for the Sunshine Award & The Reader Appreciation Award.
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Thank you for your kindness. It is appreciated.
I love the poem! Particularly the last four lines are truly profound.
Thank you.