ordinary gateway.
This is another post that I tucked away some time ago. The image is intriguing. Bert took a picture of a mushroom from underneath which is not where we look at things from quite often. Here, we find an ordinary gateway where the Sun lets us see things differently shining through the mushroom’s folds.
Martin Heidegger, a brilliant philosopher and not so great person, wrote that we can only see the face of an object unless we change our place in relationship to the object gaining a new perspective and insight.
When we change our point-of-view, it is like a new gateway into something we have not experienced. As well, when we go to the backside and underneath, perhaps there is an un-experienced silence. It is like driving past a mountain on a busy highway with its busyness that does not exist on the other sides. When we find those quiet spaces, the silence speaks to us from the object’s essence and something new reveals itself.
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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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I think that is true too.
Leslie
What interesting observations! Sometimes when I take a step back from a situation then I find a new way to reach a resolution for it.
I like the idea of changing perspective. And the photo of the mushroom was quite beautiful.
Excellent thoughts and I love the way you brought Heideggerยดs into the spotlight.
Very accurate!. All the best to you. Aquilean a:D
I had forgotten about the poetry, I still remember the mushroom. Went to that (partially flooded) forest today to make another set of pictures … anouncing spring … ๐
Thanks for reminder and the link.
Thank you Bert and you are most welcome.
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very true indeed.
Thank you for the comment Francina.
So true will think about it next time see mushrooms
It gives us pause to think about those ordinary things we walk past or eat.
Interesting. Wisdom prevails.
Well said. Remembering the I-Thou relationship is always centering.
It is. Thank you Amanda.