When I write and post, I do not know where I go. Each step is its own process without rehearsal. Life is much the same, a process. We continuously transform: shedding cells, body parts atrophy, slow down, etc. Of course, children go in the other direction in some of these processes as they become quicker and more stable with time.
We often treat change as if it is something we can control. The truth is change always happens in overlooked and taken-for-granted ways. Living and writing are complex processes. The adventure is in the unpredictability of living and writing, not in unattainable certainty. We do not know what will emerge in the adventure.
Step at a time;
Moment by moment–
Without realizing,
Change happens.
Changing ever so gradually;
Gracefully–
Imperceptible,
Seeking no material reward.
This dancing,
Unrehearsable–
Hearing unheard music;
But, no sleight of hand.
Light radiating;
Illuminating this step–
This present,
A gift.
I took this picture in Quebec City several years ago. We saw Les Chutes de Montmorency during the summer, as well. What the picture does not reveal in summer or winter is a few hundred metres of the waterfalls the water appears calm and flows into the St. Lawrence River. I say calm, because we cannot see below the surface and know what is happening. Change acts this way. There is always something below the surface.
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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.
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Teacher as Transformer 
I like the analogy you drew between the calm of the water and that of imlerceltible changes. I wrote something in a similar tone in my About too, about people always going through changes. Change is the only constant. ❤
*imperceptible
Thank you Shruba. Yes, we can count on change. It is always happening in life’s current.
Yeap, always some thing below the surface that reveals itself in its own good time… In the form of change.
Love this!!
Pat
Thank you Pat
Life is an adventure filled with change and constants. As we hold onto the constants, change becomes easier to accept. Actually, without change life would be rather boring.
It would be. Life with change brings surprise and adventure.
The line “This dancing,
Unrehearsable–
Hearing unheard music;“ I could visualize exactly what that would look like.
Yes, we need to dance to our music as opposed to the music others play for us. Satchel Paige, the African-American baseball great, was supposed to have said, “Dance like no one is watching.”
Yes. This is definitely a mantra for us these days.
This was such an enjoyable read, Ivon.
I love your use of the written word – so descriptive and profound.
Thank you for the kind words Carolyn.