i know admitting that is a huge faux pas around this neck of the woods, but sometimes they just get in the way. they kind of laugh at you like they know they are insurmountable. on days when i need a breather, sometimes they close in around me and i feel claustrophobic knowing that in an afternoon's time i will be unable to cross over the mountains and back.
this is why i love the ocean. you can stand in the sand and look out across the water imagining everything that falls beyond the horizon. when you look at the mountains, they are all there is to the horizon.
makes me wonder why so often we try to move mountains. maybe they are there to keep us contained. keep us from wildly escaping into an unknown abyss. should every wall fall, every mountain be moved? do boundaries and borders have their place in nature, life, education?
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Living a hurried moment wherein the speed at which change occurs is accelerating rapidly, I fear in an effort to assimilate to this new pace of life I may lose perspective. I may disconnect. This virtual space is meant to help me better pace my thoughts and meditate critically on action. In the field of education, this time is a luxury but necessary if we believe in maintaining connection to life and all things living thereby making us better learners and mentors.
i am allowing time to stand still on saturdays. this is my day to simply be...
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- Jamee
- I think in color and shape and intersecting, interwoven lines, story lines, bass lines. I dream in piano melodies, and I am moved by belief and humility. Water is my life's metronome, and connection keeps me breathing and alive. I believe no one person can truly grow in isolation.
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2 comments:
as we become increasingly visual people, perhaps the ability to see indefinitely across a barrier breaks that barrier down in our minds. the self-limitation of our eyes' ability exists alone to restrain us. when a barrier, however surmountable, blocks our view of the other side, it can seem permanent, absolute and impossible to cross, whether in body or mind or spirit.
maybe if we can see past our obstacles, we are more likely to overcome them.
hey there!
I posted a comment to this blog (http://louann-multiliteracies.blogspot.com/2007/09/major-mindset-shift-needed-in-schools.html)
- about your note regarding schoolspace - see my comments at the end...amazing coincidence. And I also happen to be a CSU alum (long time ago though - did my MSEE way back in 92).
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