Kathy and I were in British Columbia, visiting family, for a week. We stop at Mount Robson on our way to Prince George, which is where we first met and lived after we were married.
Mount Robson is highest point in the Canadian Rockies and we have driven by it many times on our way to and from Prince George. We take pictures of it at every opportunity and stop to bask in its majesty and richness.
Toni Morrison provided this wonderful quote about mountains and leaders:
“Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can’t even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, because the clouds let him; they don’t wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him.”
Here are two pictures I took of Mount Robson with a little cloud cover circling and loving the mountain at the top, letting its head poke through.
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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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Beautiful place!😉😘❤🌸👏👏
It is beautiful and we continue to explore its beauty.
Lovely post, Ivon. What a beautiful mountain and I love the Toni Morrison quote. Very nice.
Thank you Carrie. It is beautiful. Unlike the other mountains around it, it stands out and does not share space with the other mountains.
Gorgeous.
Thank you Laleh.
My pleasure.
Wow! Just magnificent! 🙂
(No Satchquatch in sight!)
No, there were none, but we saw bear–grizzly and black.
A very lovely post, Ivan. And those are beautiful pictures.
Thank you Cynthia.
Ivon, not Ivan! Please correct for me.
Stunning!
Thank you Bela.
Beautiful!
Thank you David.
Thanks for sharing
You are welcome Roy.
What a lovely analogy of the love of the mountains and the clouds! ❤
Thank you Mia.
Good post
Thank you.
You are always welcome