As I reflect on my blogging, I note a significant change in tone, voice, and content. When I began, I did it for the wrong reasons, driven from ego. Transformation is about one’s self.
Thich Nhat Hanh shared the following about the miracle of being alive:
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”
Transforming is not the same as change. Change is always happening, often running below the radar. When something or someone transforms, I bear witness to it or that human. I am pulled up short and take a second look, perhaps more. I become aware of the remarkable change, which is part of a larger, less visible cycle. I am aware of the remarkableness of the world and its inhabitants.
Experiencing metamorphosis is about seeing one’s life in its simplicity and ordinary elements, in the extraordinary. In this way, living is the miracle. Just being aware of what surrounds me and what I encounter is the mindfulness that makes life a miracle.
I took this picture of a butterfly. I was aware of its beauty and how it made life fuller.
Merely changing,
Occupies my idle mind.
Denying, silencing–
Another self.
Questioning–
One’s inner terrain.
Who is this self?
What life is this self living?
Maturing,
Emerging,
A chrysalis–
Thoughtful gift.
Flourishing beyond rhetoric,
Journeying with others,
Appreciating–
Valorizing.
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Teacher as Transformer 