What Fills Your World?.
There was no re-blog capacity on the site so I went with pressing it. The Inuit song/poem is a great piece and speaks to the smallness of our troubles and the awareness we need to recognize the small gifts we overlook which make life so extraordinary.
The Swedish proverb speaks to the song as in sharing we find more joy and less sorrow. Someone and something is always present with us even when they are not there physically.
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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 and its anticipatory relationship with the future, and hope as an essential element in learning.
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Teacher as Transformer 
Many thanks for sharing this Inuit song/poem and the proverb with your readers, Ivon. I dug deep into the bowels of the dashboard and enabled the re-blog setting, I think. Smiles!
You are welcome. I enjoyed the post immensely. The Swedish proverb had come through my Twitter feed several times so I figured it was speaking to me.
It speaks its simple wisdom.
I was just reading an article in Sierra magazine about how humans have largely lost their night vision due to so rarely having occasion to use it. I think about that article now, as I wander outside to admire the billions of stars in the heavens. To miss out on the rhythms of nature, from sunrise to sunset and beyond into the night – is to miss the value of living on earth, in my opinion.
I enjoy being outside the urban setting where the night sky lights up. One sees and hears things very differently when we are quiet.
Yes, for sure.