Spring and Ideas: Birth and Creation
Well,
Week 24.
I
read this essay again this morning, with new eyes. Eyes after the Parkland
shootings, which occurred 20 miles from where my sister and brother-in-law
live. Where soccer teammates of my great-niece go to school.
I’m
going to post the entire essay from Dear Teachers here today for everyone, because I think it fits today.
Please share it if you wish! I wanted this piece to be a confession about, and reminder against, giving up. I
look at the drive of students like Emma
Gonzalez and David Hogg and
am inspired. Reminded. Feeling validated in what I’ve been pushing hard the last 18
months: we’re stronger together. Being together helps keep those "half-shaped blobs" of solutions and change alive.
We
each have circles of influence. Let’s use them. Let’s not slack off. I’m
talking to teachers right now- preaching to the choir a bit. Perhaps, simply be
less silent? Share your reality with some people (young and old) you normally
wouldn’t. Not in negative ways. Just in honest ways. It can be daunting, but, we need it. You need it. Our youth need it. There are beautiful eggs out there
that need warmth.
February- Week 24- Birth and Creation
Ideas hatch.
In spring, we have the best opportunity to
remind ourselves of this fact. Life is being born everywhere we turn as nature joyfully
celebrates the end of want and burgeoning abundance.
Being human, we have the luxury of not having
to wait until spring to give birth to new and wonderful things. Look at all
that our students have created and achieved since Day 1 and where we have come
since our first day on the job. New ideas, hopes, dreams and aspirations can
arise anywhere and at any time.
The downside is, we may very easily leave
things in an incomplete stage. What’s the impetus for us to take those
half-shaped blobs in our heads, hearts, workbenches or hard drives and turn
them into something whole? There’s the real chance of it sliding to “It’ll
never…”
Eggs need to be both laid and nested upon to
hatch. We must remind ourselves to keep going after those first pieces come
together.
Make a commitment. Write it down. Dream a dream
and then figure out a way to make it happen. Day by day and bit by bit we can
get places. If we share our ideas with people and open ourselves to honest
review, we can get closer to the fulfillment of our ambitions. Our students
will be inspired to follow our lead if they see us taking these more difficult
steps.
Who knows what brilliance we might then hatch?
My ideas to hatch:
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