Grace Holmes wrote this poem. I was unable to find a link to the poet, but wanted to share the poem. If someone has a link, I will edit and add it.
The poem reminded me of Alfred North Whitehead‘s thinking. He suggested we only need to look at nature and find general patterns for life. Nature reveals patterns when we take time and observe living in nature.
There’s a secret with these rugged hills, whose slender tops are gray;
There’s a secret with the wild flowers that bloom along the way;
There’s a secret with the roaming clouds that change the changeful sky
A secret have the busy winds, that chant and moan and sigh:
A secret has the moonlight, that touches land and sea,
A secret is between the stars that blink and you and me.
Ah the secrets! can you count them? so numerous are they!
Ah the secrets! can you find them out? can you find them out, I say?
I knew that some sweet secret ‘twixt my garden flowers grew.
But I said, I know, I feel, it is not for me, or you.
I felt there was a secret with the wondrous charming sea,
But again I shook my head and said, that secret’s not for me.
Yea, every where I turn my eyes on nature living show,
I feel there is a secret that ’tis not for me know.
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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 and its anticipatory relationship with the future, and hope as an essential element in learning.
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How lovely!
Thank you.
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Spectacular share Ivon. Another poem you’ve introduced me to that I’ve now added to my long list of faves. Truly inspiring. Thank you!! Gina
You are welcome Gina. I am glad to help out in any small way.
There are patterns in all things, I believe, especially in nature. This was very sweet. 🙂
Thank you Jackie.