Current shares the same etymological roots as curriculum: currere.
How we make meaning of living is like the spaces between words in a poem. It is in silence that meaning emerges. It flows between the words and stanzas.
We need silence in our lives to find meaning. It is standing on the edge of a mountain lake without others. There is a peace there.
“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home.” Aboriginal Proverb
Living is a text,
Traveling through time and space,
Leaving others to ponder meaning;
A meaning that is never whole.
Engulfed in silence,
Emerging from a peace(ful) moment,
One’s inner voice speaks;
As if an other speaks.
Wrapped in meditative moments
When silence is a poem,
Bringing the text to life;
Sending it on its way again.
This is a small lake we walked to in Glacier National Park.
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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.
Beautiful post…and deeply resonant.
Thank you Carrie.
The pictured lake looked like the perfect place to stop and ponder.
It was. I spent about an hour writing and sitting. We missed a moose by a few minutes.
I like the metaphor of the text passing through life touching some and bringing meaning.
I am glad you enjoyed that.
I really did!
A really nice poem, corresponding to the image, as was it written there. Thx. Have a nice weekend. 😉 Michael
Thank you Michael. Take care and enjoy.
Thank you. Have a nice weekend. 😉 Michael
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Wonderful poem, Ivon! The silence between words in poems has a mystical quality….anything can emerge.
Thank you.
Just like silence between words of a poem is meaningful; the silence between notes of musical composition is meaningful when used properly. Thoughtful poem!
Yes, that is where the rhythm appears in music and gives meaning to the composer’s work. Thank you.
You are a member of the intelligentsia, that is one of the things I like about you.
Thank you. I don’t think of myself that way.
‘One’s inner voice speaks as another one.’ How true !