When Accounting is Spelled, “Water…”

When Accounting is Spelled, “Water…”

      Lofty ideas and ideals need to have a landing place. Words and ideas need to become flesh if they are to have any value at all. I am an educator. But I am also an innovator. I guess that makes me an educational innovator? Strangely, that label...
Are You Sensing What I’m Sensing?

Are You Sensing What I’m Sensing?

For some time now, I have been noticing something. And, I am wondering if anyone else is seeing it. It’s not so much visible to the eyes as it is discerned by the heart. I sense there is a movement underway. There is a question which is surfacing, arising, emerging, I...

Warming Up to Writing…For the 2nd Time

It’s that time of year again.  Asked by Mark to write, I find myself forced to reflect on why I do what I do and clarify what exactly it is that I do.  Make sense? I know that an unexamined life is not worth living.  I believe it was Socrates who said this.  But the...
Robert Goulet and Aurora Borealis;  Only Connect

Robert Goulet and Aurora Borealis; Only Connect

Do you believe there is something germinal to our lives? Is there something planted in us, perhaps even before there was an us (imagine that one!), something of eternal weightiness, our uniqueness, the reason for OUR being here, OUR being human, which welcomes our...

From Captain Kirk to Gandalf the White; What’s An Educator To Do?

I grew up with a brother who was and is a Trekkie.  On a normal day, after school and football practice, he was found glued to the TV set watching the most recent episode of Star Trek.  Not only was he glued, but he ran with a crowd in our high school who were also...