“What we pay attention to grows…what we put our attention on grows” I recently finished reading adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy and took note of these words (and many others). Since then I’ve been in an inquiry around transformation, and what it really means to live a life committed to growth, transformation, resilience and healing. […]
Month: December 2020
Uncharted Waters (Final Reflection Fall 2020)
Just over 10 months ago, I accepted a new position. Just over 9 months ago, the world, and with it the educational world that I had previously known, completely shifted. 6 months and 3 weeks ago, I started a new position. Just about 4 months ago, I began the fall semester, teaching courses I’ve never […]
Closer to Fine
2020 has been a year of so much heaviness, darkness, and isolation. It has been a year of missing so many people, missing proximity (even sometimes when you share a household with others), missing normalcy, missing boundaries to be embraced instead of set, missing escapes. It has been a very hard year. But, personally, there […]
The Presence of Grief
Another December 14th. The 8th since my brother called to tell me something had happened at my nephew’s school, since he texted me an hour later, saying that he had my nephew. Something that 20 families didn’t get to hear. I am well acquainted with grief. Collective and individual. With days that are remembered in […]
The Next Checkpoint
“We are almost there,” I keep telling myself, the students in my classes, my friends, the faculty in my program. But almost where? Yes, we’re nearly to the end of what has felt like the longest semester of my 20-year teaching career. But the end just leads to another beginning… Which will be more of […]