In this poem, Alice Walker counselled us to think of life as a transforming event. Parker Palmer referred to the inner and outer movement as similar to a Möbius Strip with one side that is continuous.
We have to pause and be mindful, but it is not like we are separate from the world. We live in it and it lives in us. We act on it as it acts on us.
Living is about going beyond who we are. Trans means to go beyond. We are continuously moving beyond who we are at any given moment. It is inevitable and poetic. Living is poetry. We are always creating someone and something new, despite ourselves.
Poetry is leading us.
It never cares how we will
be held by lovers
or drive fast
or look good in the moment;
we are committed to movement
both inner and outer;
and devoted to transformation
and to change.
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Teacher as Transformer 