Raison d’être
My raison d’etre for being in this blogging start-up, my rationalization for whittling time away from reading student writing, scribbling fragments of poems, and wrestling with my 18 month old in order to participate in this blogging adventure is this: I want more. I want more structure and context to my thinking, I want more depth and breadth to my professional conversations, I want more ways to connect and be connected to the world of thought. I want to be part of an intellectual feedback loop, the kind of active dialogue I hope to inspire in my students. I trust my blog-knowledgeable colleagues when they assure me that “plugging in” will bring me all of this, and more.
October 19th, 2007 at 9:09 am
And I am blown away to be in the company of
such interesting, intellectually apt, and collegial
folks….
We don’t really have the time to get to know
each other in school…sometimes teachers are so
busy they do not get to visit the other rooms in their
lives……we should all try to visit those rooms, every day.
(This idea is from Rumer Godden…a foreword to her autobiography, which I highly recommend.)
“[one’s] life is like a house with four rooms….”
edit this on 19 Oct 2007 at 7:33 am4 marshc
everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person”.