Hafez counsels me to look in to discover the hemispheres. I love lines where he calls on me to make a new water-mark on my excitement and love. When I turn in, it is possible to welcome new seasons and bloom in new unexpected ways that are a result of changing the rooms in my mind.
When I greet myself with kindness and the world with humility, I find my way home. An essential element of this journey is I am not alone, but with those who go with me and share with me the journey.
The journey of life is always made in the mindful and attentive of company of others inside and outside me as I let my senses and bodies stretch out in unfamiliar ways. I create the new in those moments and deepening of relationships with those gathered around the fire.
Leave the familiar for a while.
Let your senses and bodies stretch out
Like a welcomed season
Onto the meadows and shores and hills.
Open up to the Roof.
Make a new water-mark on your excitement
And love.
Like a blooming night flower,
Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness
And giving
Upon our intimate assembly.
Change rooms in your mind for a day.
All the hemispheres in existence
Lie beside an equator
In your heart.
Greet Yourself
In your thousand other forms
As you mount the hidden tide and travel
Back home.
All the hemispheres in heaven
Are sitting around a fire
Chatting
While stitching themselves together
Into the Great Circle inside of
You.
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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 really like the concept of changing rooms in my mind. And making a new water-mark on excitement and love is a worthy challenge to embrace. Thank you for this wonderful share, Ivon.
You are welcome Tiny. Thank you for a wonderful comment and bringing forward the metaphor.
such lovely words
They are.
I agree with Tiny. The metaphor of “changing the rooms in your mind” makes the idea of “change” user-friendly concerning how our minds work and how we can be in control of which room we want to be in. ❤
It is wonderful metaphor that speaks to what we are in control of.
Lovely share.Thank you. Hafiz is a great favorite of mine. Bless you, Tasha
Thank you Tasha and you are welcome.
I’m going to have to give this one a big WOW! There is positively too much to take it all fully in. I know he is saying (in better syntax) get out of the box that you are in and become the many you could be, (and probably), expecting more of yourself because there are so many aspects to become acquainted with? What significance is there of being in close proximity with the heart? Is that just a recognition, a knowing while unknowing? There is a lot of ambiguity or am I seeing it incorrectly? I am enjoying reading it over and over but not sure I have it yet.
I think one of the beautiful aspects of poetry like this (Sufi, Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, etc.) is the ambiguity. Each time I read poems that are deeply spiritual, I find new meaning. They are deep.
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