For The Ones Who Dream Of New Worlds

Above All, Just Let Her Be Kind.

WE WERE NEVER BORN 

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Jack Kerouac on Kindness, the Self Illusion, and the “Golden Eternity”

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“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realise you’re already in heaven now.”

It is easy to ignore the fiction in light of the "Diary of Anais Nin" and the Magnificence of her Life, but it was perhaps her most refined art of all. And during difficult times it is easy to ignore Art altogether, but this is Precisely when Art Sustains Us, when Art rises above the Chaos and Inspires us with Eternal Hope.

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Thank you to Stephanie, Yong, Valerie, Henry, Catherine, Peter, Madeleine and Mark for sharing your story and passion. And thank for reminding us all that each person in our learning communities is home to a life. It is as simple and complex as that. Born from the construct of love – of self, for place and the other.

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This. That Is All.

Dare To Lead, Rising Strong, Stay A Little Awkward, Brave Hard Conversations and Always Kind. Brene Brown Shares The Best Shift. Grounded Human Stories, Extensive Research Base and Heart Centred Living. Most Importantly, Brene Laughs Readily (at her self firstly) Is Wicked Wise and Totally Mischievous.

Om Ellie & Yogi Bear, Channelling Harriet & Brene

"This two-episode special is based on a course that Dr. Harriet Lerner and I did together on her groundbreaking book, “Why Won’t You Apologize?: Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts.” You can expect authentic, hard conversations (and one helluva role play) about making mistakes, healing hurts, and being brave. Harriet is a friend, mentor, and teacher. Her work has shaped my career and made my life better. During a time of deep uncertainty and anxiety – when many of us have struggled to be our best selves all of the time – apologizing has never been more important." ~ Brene Brown 

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I don’t know about you, but I’ve had to apologize A LOT over the past six weeks - which makes this the perfect time to lean into Dr. Harriet Lerner’s work on apologizing.⁣ ⁣ This two-episode podcast special is based on a course that @harriet_lerner and I did together on her groundbreaking book, "Why Won't You Apologize: Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts."⁣ ⁣ When you listen, you can expect authentic, hard conversations (and one helluva role play) about making mistakes, healing hurts, and being brave.⁣ ⁣ During a time of deep uncertainty and anxiety - when many of us have struggled to be our best selves all of the time - apologizing has never been more important.⁣ ⁣ Listen to the full episode at the link in profile!

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Reframing Learning, Lead Learners Are Actively Mentoring Self Directed Learners and Creative Learning. Farewell Passive Paradigms of Filling The Empty Vessel with "That's The way We've Always Done It", Schools, Education and Design Thinking, No More Excuses.

“Pandemics aren’t linear – they are exponential. When things get knocked off track, they don’t always come back to a steady state. We’re talking about complex systems.” The same goes for the environment, populism and, of course, the global economy. https://t.co/L9g7FpTEWf

— Tony Searl (@TonySearl) May 4, 2020

Michael Stevenson shares what human flourishing looks like and considers the purpose of education @learningcreates especially in an increasingly #artificialinteliigence world #learningcreatesaustralia pic.twitter.com/TiD16hJyy6

— Dr Charlotte Forwood (@talkinged19) May 4, 2020

Take a moment and be sensitive to your surroundings, have you created balance? Do you make conscious choices that make a positive difference in your environment?

— David Bennett (@DharmaTalks) May 4, 2020

.@RebeccaWinthrop talks about the 100 year gap between the poor & the rich if education continues as it is, observing there are great examples of excellent learning globally #learningcreatesaustralia proposes ‘secret sauce’ is to leverage parental engagement pic.twitter.com/8mqGB1rjUP

— Dr Charlotte Forwood (@talkinged19) May 4, 2020

To "internally learn how to learn" (verb, active)) or be "externally educated" (noun, passive) To Be of "intrinsic value" or "external success" Semantics matter as we invite more wonder? https://t.co/ErPiuh2vCF

— Tony Searl (@TonySearl) May 4, 2020

"Yes and ... Not Yes, but..." Expansive Opportunities For Educational Change. Fresh Education Makes So Much Sense. PISA Does NOT Matter. Never, Ever.

The FreshEd Podcast · FreshEd #197 – COVID-19 as an opportunity for educational change (Yong Zhao)

There’s an urban legend that Winston Churchill, near the end of World War II, once said “never let a good crisis go to waste.” President Obama’s chief of staff, Rahman Emanuel, certainly said similar words in 2009 after the Global Financial Crisis. Is the crisis in education today caused by the coronavirus an opportunity to make lasting and positive change? How can we be sure not to waste this moment by returning to normal?

Yong Zhao joins me to talk about educational change in the time of COVID-19. He argues that we must change the “yes, but” attitude to a “yes, and” collaborative approach. We must be innovative and work together to redesign education systems into something new. He’s hoping to see more self-directed learning emerge out of this crisis as well as a shift towards the humanities and philosophy.

Yong Zhao is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas. His newest book is entitled Teaching Students to Become Self-Determined Learners (ASCD, 2020).

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Pure Flow States. May The 4th Be With You!

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@austinkeen surfin’ with dolphins. Via @waketowaketc

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Purge All The Stuck Past Terms and Conditions. Allow, Surrender, Open Slow Down and Let Grace Find Us, Create Space For The Next Fresh Horizon, Make Peace With The Past, Let The Shift Happen as We Let What Is Not Meant For Us Go.

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We had to take classes. Read books. Get therapy. It’s not natural for a lot of us to know how to process and move things out of our body after we feel it. Seriously, get whatever help you need, because life gets a whole lot better when you learn to let things go after you feel it, and after you fight for it if you need to, but at some point, it needs to be released. -Maranda

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There is Always Hope In Human Kindness. So Many Tears of Joy as This Little One Came Back To Life

This pittie weighed 17 pounds when she was rescued — look at her now! pic.twitter.com/IcRvlcIVR8

— The Dodo (@dodo) May 3, 2020

"Words Exist Because of Meaning. Once You've Gotten The Meaning, You Can Forget The Words. ~ Where Can I find One Who Has Forgotten Words so I Can Talk With Her?" ~ Chuang Tzu, (Zhuangzi) A True Nature Witness

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Today's #SaturdaySentence comes from "Recollections of My Nonexistence," a memoir by the activist and author Rebecca Solnit about acquiring confidence as a woman and a writer. "For Solnit fans, her new memoir is a glimpse of all that was 'taking form out of sight,' providing a key to understanding much of her work to date. Yet simply as a coming-of-age narrative, it also has much to offer someone new to her writing," our reviewer, Jenny Odell, writes. “The stochastic nature of social change has been one of Solnit’s guiding concerns, and here it’s transposed to a personal register: How does a person change? We rarely know what something means when it happens to us. We may be finding out for the rest of our lives." | @vikingbooks

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An Antidote To Chaos. A Full Loving Life Worth Living, Now.

“No tree can grow to Heaven,” 

says Carl Gustav Jung, psychoanalyst extraordinaire, 

“unless its roots reach down to Hell.”

Spectrum & Spirals

Be Full Spectrum Alive ~ Creation, Feel It All ~  Be The Flow
The Most Alive Branches Spiral To Heaven as Real Roots Reach to Hell
Share Truth graciously, listen, weep, smile, speak of joys and sorrow,
Return To An Ever Widening Centre Channel,
Spectrum, Rest, Restore, Replenish,
Spiral, We Rise Again. 

What is your friend: the things you know, or the things you don't know?

First of all, there's a lot more things you don't know. 

And second, the things you don't know is the birthplace of all your new knowledge.

So if you make the things you don't know your friend, rather than the things you know, 

well then you're always on a quest in a sense. 

You're always looking for new information in the off chance that somebody who doesn't agree with you will tell you something you couldn't have figured out on your own

It's a completely different way of looking at the world. 

It's the antithesis of opinionated.

Intolerance of others’ views 

(no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) 

is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: 

it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.

Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. 

These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. 

Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. 

Take care with yourself. 

Define who you are. 

Refine your personality. 

Choose your destination and articulate your Being. 

As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, 

“He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.”

A Deck Life in Heavenly Paradise ~ This Morning Glory, Having Coffee, With Her.
A Gracious, Gorgeous, Home. The On Point Light House, Shining Love.

So surrender and accept, dive deeper for pearls as we see clearly Now, 

Life is suffering
Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated
Truth is the handmaiden of love
Dialogue is the pathway to truth
Humility is recognition of personal insufficiency and the willingness to learn
To learn is to die voluntarily and be born again, in great ways and small

So speech must be untrammelled

So that dialogue can take place
So that we can all humbly learn
So that truth can serve love
So that suffering can be ameliorated
So that we can all stumble forward to the Kingdom of God

That We All Are, already. 

And gently remember;

Hold Truth Ever So Lightly, 

Thinking Ideologies, the intellect

are not substitutes for true knowledge, a true surrender to creation's uncertainty. 

Thinking ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, 

because a simple-minded 

"I-know-it-all approach" 

"I have THE solution"

"I know THE Way Forward"

is no match for the simple complexity of infinite spontaneous creation.

So Instead,

Be In Awe, 

More. 

Look Up. 

Look Forward, 

Fresh Horizons, 

Simply wonder...? 

Our Simple, Soft, Centred, 

Absolute True Potent Nature is 

This Full Spectrum of Infinite Grounded Creation. 

The Paradox of Fully Living, 

Accepting Not Knowing, 

Accepting Each Moment, 

Embrace These Alive Breathing Spirals of Each Minute Moment of Now as The End. 

Embrace The Presence of Energy In Motion. 

Remember Who We Are. 

Remember who we Always Have Been. 

Remember who we always will Be. 

This Whole. As Creation. As Nature. No Waiting, 

Right Now. 

“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open.  

It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. 

It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. 

It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).” 

 

Jordan B. Peterson 

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos