Find Your ilene

You must find someone who inspires you, who believes in all your wild ideas, who isn't afraid of dreaming and does a good deal of it themselves. Beware those who give advice out of fear and/or anger. Check their words (and yours--we are our own worst critic ofttimes). These are some of my "Ilenes":

Biking through the poppy and wheat fields of Normandie, France.

Catching the Bus on the Isle of Wight

Paris, bridge over the Seine.

Lost and Losing our minds in France!

Scotland

 

St. Andrews, Scotland

Glamis Castle in Scotland

Bebe Ms. Walker, 2012, student teaching

student teaching, AFHS

Beeson is my Guru

 

The Brewers

Sue

 

Sufjan Stevens, "It's not so impossible"

What the Bleep am I doing with my life?

John Green, folks: on becoming an adult, and how to figure out what you're supposed to Do with your whole life. . .

COME ALIVE

"DON'T ASK WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS. ASK WHAT MAKES YOU COME ALIVE, AND GO DO IT. BECAUSE WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS IS PEOPLE WHO HAVE 

COME ALIVE." 

-Howard Thurman, theologian

What does it mean to be Human?

I received this message when I posted a comment. And it got me thinking. How do I really know I’m human? Maybe I am a robot. We could be robots. “I know I’m human because...”

Bob Dylan, Isle of Wight, and Failure

"You fail only when you let death creep in and take over a part of your life that should be alive." -Bob Dylan

"If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure." -Bob Dylan

What is failure?
        ((What does it look like? Feel like?))



Do you believe in failure?

If you could change our schools

What does he say about school that you believe is true? Why?
What does he say about school that you disagree with? Why?

What is the purpose of school in your opinion?
What would your "dream" school day look like? Why?

conviviality will heal us all

“Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.
(pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

con·viv·i·al·i·ty

kənˌvivēˈalədē/

noun

noun: conviviality

the quality of being friendly and lively; friendliness.

"the conviviality of the evening"

synonyms:

friendliness, geniality, affability, amiability, bonhomie, congeniality, cordiality, warmth, good nature, sociability, gregariousness, cheerfulness, good cheer, joviality, jollity, gaiety, liveliness "the staff at the inn got an excellent rating for their helpfulness and conviviality"