When we remain mindful to the world and others, we stumble upon people and things to love. Once we find it, we carry it carefully as a bright cup of water and a loaf of bread.
Moya Cannon suggested that being mindful keeps us open to what might be overlooked. We find the extraordinary in the ordinary, the unexpected places and times. We learn to become mindful and attentive over time, knowing we cannot always be mindful.
The commonplace waits for us to notice its extraordinary beauty and sensuousness. We find it in the sweet taste of the water and the inviting smell of freshly baked bread. Those seemingly ordinary people and things become the purse of gold.
Some of what we love
we stumble upon —
a purse of gold thrown on the road,
a poem, a friend, a great song.
And more
discloses itself to us —
a well among green hazels,
a nut thicket —
when we are worn out searching
for something quite different.
And more
comes to us, carried
as carefully
as a bright cup of water,
as new bread.
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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 
It’s those little surprises along life’s way that make each day special – a violet in the grass, a cardinal outside the window, a letter from a friend.
Yes, it is all those little things. We don’t get cardinals this far north, but we get blue jays sitting on the deck railings right outside the kitchen window.
Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
SOMETHING…SOMEBODY…SOME NEW IDEAS…TOCHEW THEREON!
Thank you for the re-blog and comment Jonathan.
VERY SIMILAR…AT LEAST IN DIRECTION…AS MY MOST RECENT POEM! A NICE SERENDIPITY!
It is so nice when serendipity happens.
Sure is! 🙂
A beautiful reminder Thankyou. 🌸
You are welcome and thank you.
Simply beautiful
Thank you.
Nice poem! 🙂
It is lovely.
Love this Ivon. Thank you 💛
You are welcome Val.
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Mindfulness … Once we find it, we carry it carefully as a bright cup of water and a new loaf of bread.
A lovely post from Ivon at Teacher as Transformer 💛
What a delightful reminder, Ivon. There is so much beauty to discover and cherish in the ordinary.
There is. Thank you for the lovely comment.