Clever or Wise?.
I spent two days on a break of sorts. I intended to post something late Saturday afternoon, but spent the day and good portion of the evening being a minion to our 5 month old grandson.
He is getting to the age where he can play games i.e. peek-a-boo and he recalls that he has played the game with you. When I walked into the house on Sunday, he smiled and wanted to play.
Small things and children help us grow and become wise. We want to change our self because it is the best way to change the world we come in contact with. We blend the passion for life with compassion, because without the integration we are incomplete.
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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.
Teacher as Transformer 
Indeed!!
Yea, children help us to grow to wisdom and realize our flaws and how our parents feel when they care for us v
They care unconditionally.
And we learn to love them unconditionally too.
Beginners mind,,,,,,,
This is learning for us, mature set, watch, see another human being entirely wrapped up in this moment, empty of doubt or worry.
We strive to find this space as adults.
Babies are good for us that way. Monday night we watched as he played with the little boy in the mirror.
Definitely!
Don’t worry at all about what you intended to do. Sounds like what you ended up doing was perfect.
I think so. It was a lot of fun.
What absolute joy! A five month grandchild who wants to play pee-a-boo! You are blessed beyond measure! 🙂
We are. He is great. By the end of our time there, he got so excited when we walked in the house.
How wonderful to care for your grandchild! I’m not sure who benefits more, you or the child. God bless you both. ❤
I am sure I benefit more now. He provides a bounce in my step. It is wonderful to watch as he explores the world like laughing at the little boy in the mirror.