Comments on: Pearls need discomfort, right?

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:44:09 +0000

Thanks for the poem, Mike. We work with questions every day that have no right to go away, don’t we.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:42:49 +0000

I like that analogy, Michael. I often think about teachers as containers. We hold emotion – stress, nervousness, fear, happiness, sadness, glee – for our students in our rooms so that learning can happen. We hold the environment, atmosphere, so that they can ripen, mature, grow.

I don’t know if the oyster meat is eaten… ugh, that image affects the analogy somewhat, doesn’t it

By: Michael Doyle

Michael Doyle — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:41:45 +0000

It’s the oysters, not the pearls, that are discomforted, and that may be an even better analogy for teachers living on the edges.

(Do you know if the oyster meat is eaten once the pearl is removed? I am darkly amused by the idea that we throw away the part that’s useful to us–we’re all magpies.)
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By: mike

mike — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:55:38 +0000

Hi Tracy….hope this finds you well and extremely well said and so true!!

SOMETIMES

Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest

breathing
like the ones
in the old stories

who could cross
a shimmering bed of dry leaves
without a sound,

you come
to a place
whose only task

is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests

conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lead everywhere.

Requests to stop what
you are doing right now,
and

to stop what you
are becoming
while you do it,

questions
that can make
or unmake
a life,

questions
that have patiently
waited for you,

questions
that have no right
to go away.

~ David Whyte ~

(Everything is Waiting for You)

You ask and follow very deep questions……

be well…mike