On Being Creative

  The word creativity has always made me squirm. That’s because I don’t think I am creative. Not in the sense of being an artist, which is how I had always defined the word. I can’t draw. Or paint. But last summer, I realized I had limited...

Hunting

Sometimes we really do live in different worlds. I was reading Eric Sheninger’s post about use of social media on the HuffPost Education blog this morning, and this comment jumped out at me: So often we view the world from our own perspective. But clearly,...

For the Elementary Teachers

Because I tend to focus on middle and high school students, I don’t often find as many resources for elementary teachers. However, in my role as Community Leader for our Australian community, I am finding all sorts of folks who share so willingly. And, wow, am I...

Being Aware

And the walls came tumbling down… industrial age institutions will continue to expand blindly, unaware of their part in a larger whole or of the consequences of their growth. Presence, Peter Senge At a recent church Vestry retreat, I spent time at Roslyn, a...