How have you found the places and purposes where you flourish? How have you cultivated and grown others? Let’s see how you as a professional — newbie, veteran, everything in between — relate to the following story. I was a first-year French and Spanish teacher. Hadn’t majored in languages. Hadn’t planned on going into education.ContinueContinue reading “Affirm, Engage, Invite”
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“I’m glad because you are aware of me.”
I was touched to receive this comment today from the child in Central America when I wrote a personal note to ask about his days and share a bit of my own. “I just want to be seen,” we hear from those who can feel invisible: newcomers to our communities, adults doing essential but oftenContinueContinue reading ““I’m glad because you are aware of me.””
Through Language We Name Our Worth
Without the words to understand and accept ourselves and others, we spiral into despair and conflict.
Language Down Deep
Memory loss is no match for the power of sharing the language of one’s childhood and youth.
OK, I Can’t Resist: Love
The very sound of the word love, like the human experience, has remained as steady as the human need over millennia.
Focus
How language warns us to find the true focus of our lives & society, in urgent times. Are we distracted by the blurry parts of the picture?
Tuna Challenge Response
A delightful response to my Tuna Salad Challenge from Parthena Draggett prompts more insights for us all.
Tuna Salad Challenge
Here’s an invitation to a tuna salad challenge – lets’ help a world on stand-off mode understand the nature and promise of diversity and culture.
Let’s Talk Birdseed
Let’s use language to scatter nourishing birdseed for all (and not work so hard trying to get our proverbial ducks in rows.)