“Creative solidarity is the necessary act of forward motion, in a collective movement. At this precise moment in our history it demands of us that we search for new and emerging structures of feeling, for languages and ideas for doing our work, for new ways of being with each other, for ways of forging newContinue reading “quote for the day”
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Robbing the Pillars
Today while visiting my mother-in-law, we somehow got on the conversation of her childhood growing up in Scranton PA during the 1950’s and 1960’s. She recalled how many people’s homes collapsed into sink holes because of the miles and miles of mining tunnels that had been dug underneath the town. According to her, the minersContinue reading “Robbing the Pillars”
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The Closing of the Creative Mind
Most people think of the “arts” as something they do once a week in a special class or that fun activity a teacher pulls out on a rainy Friday afternoon. But the importance of encouraging creativity and imagination through artistic or play based experiences (to name only two) goes well beyond Howard Gardner’s application ofContinue reading “The Closing of the Creative Mind”
Spiral of the Shell
This first entry is dedicated to an essay I wrote over ten years ago. One of my first ever as a doctoral student. The essay that awakened my alchemical self as writer, educator, and activist. Educational transformation, for the individual, and for us all as a collective whole, is like the spiral of the shell:Continue reading “Spiral of the Shell”
