via How Quotations Ennoble Us
I love quotes. They make me reflect about meanings that are not clear. They raise eloquent questions that have no pat answers. They inspire me. Balroop provided three quotes that underscore these points.
Poetry is like quotes and I find many quotes from poems and poets. There are spaces between words, lines, and stanzas I can stand in and wonder.
I leave you with quotes that inspire me to think deeply and ask questions about the meaning of my life.
The first two are from Mary Oliver.
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
“Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.”
The following is from Wendell Berry.
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound…
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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Yes! Greetings and thanks Ivon.
You are welcome. Take care and enjoy.
Such beautiful and poignant quotes. They always cause me to reflect. I love all of these. Thank you.
You are welcome Carrie.
Beautiful reflections! 🙏🏻🍁🌿
Thank you Karen.
I am a huge fan of quotes
They say so much with few words.
Great choices Ivon. Thank you 🙏
Thank you Val.
Thanks for the mention. The quotes you have selected are profoundly meaningful.
You are welcome and thank you Balroop.
Know and love this Berry quote. ❤
Like Mary Oliver, I find his writing profound on many levels.
Beautiful quotes. Mary Oliver’s writing is always inspiring. 🙂
Thank you. She always is. I find something new in her writing each time I read something by her.
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