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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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 
best wishes for a happy new year Ivon, many warm greetings Greetje
Thank you Greetje. Have a wonderful 2017.
How true! best wishes for the new year!
Thank you. Take care and have wonderful 2017.
Best wishes for 2017
Thank you Carl. Take care and have a wonderful 2017.
Beautifully captured Ivan.
Wishing you a Happy and Health New Year 🎇
Thank you Val. Take care and have a wonderful 2017.
An interesting post and poem, Ivon. Wishing you a great 2016.
Thank you Cynthia. Have a wonderful 2017.
“Living is about going beyond who we are.” Certainly that is the hope. Sometimes I wonder, however. Aloha, Ivon.
I do too. Take care.
Inspiring post. Great sir.
Wishing You a very warm and Joyful 2017. May your journey always bring in many memorable times. With love and care.
Thank you. Take care and enjoy a wonderful year in 2017.
Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
SOUND AND GOOD WORDS THANK YOU FOR THESE THOUGHTS!
You are welcome Jonathan. Thank you for the re-blog.
You are very welcome, too!