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I have been absent for a bit. Sometimes I wonder how people can blog every day, tweet every 5 minutes and read everyone else’s articles to blog and tweet about too. I sigh and begin to compare. How do they do that? You’re not good enough, the voice I am familiar with so quickly jumps in. I compare myself. I compare myself to fellow teachers, to my peers, to other
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Sometimes I don’t see the good. I hear the wind and get scared more of our roof will blow away and take veggies with it. I hear the chickens at 6am going berserk and I run out with broccoli leaves bribing them to shut up so the neighbors don’t turn us in. But then I drive to work and see how the wind has carried the clouds and smog away.
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I’m starting a new series on change this month. Be sure to check out new thoughts each week as I wrestle with teaching this idea to my students and living it out in my own life. January (which I just spelled Janurary) is over. This also means a new semester is well under way. Seeing as my spelling is suffering, you might be able to tell that my head is
Knowing versus experiencing. One of the greatest debates stemming from centuries ago. Head vs. heart – intellect vs. senses – abstract vs. concrete. Yesterday in class we went back and forth between the two sides adding our own commentary to the legendary banter. The topic was Greek vs. Hebrew modes of learning and how that translates into leadership. We noticed society’s bent towards the head, the intellect, the abstract. Especially
My sister-in-law called me last night. She just returned from a trip and I started teaching, so we had a bit to catch up on. “How’s work going?” I inquire, because she talked about a promotion right before she left. “Good, but they might end up moving me to full time. I know you’re supposed to ‘climb the ladder’….” I cut her off, “Yeah, whose ladder though?” “I know right?
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