You express yourself very beautifully. In fact, many of the things you talk about I have thought about many times, but you have said it so much better than I could.
Indeed, "school" is all wrong. Among indigenous people, LIFE itself was learning, an odyssey. I think we would do well to return to that in whatever ways we can.
Thank you, Jamie. YES LIVING THE QUESTIONS! Thank you for being you, too! I re-read my own piece (I edit after I publish because it's easier to see my mistakes without getting caught up in them that way for me) and I as I re-read, I realized, "Living the Questions" would actually be a better title for the piece and thought of you.🩷
Yes! Apprenticeships need to be pushed again and remove the stigma that they are a second tier option. So many, who should have gone down a more practical route, were sold the University lie that it was the only path.
Thinking again on what you say about school, I was reminded of an old poem I wrote in my twenties, especially this part of it,
"Come with me...
and we will build a new city inside this city
We will build it upon love and kindness and generosity
We will use the rays of the sun for stones
And for mortar, the fragrance of flowers
There is no sense in trying to leave the city
Because its highways cover the whole face of the earth
But we can build inside the city...
We will build schools for our children out of the wind
And the waves of the ocean will be their writing tablets"
twrichards.mystrikingly.com/blog/select-poems
Ooooo....LOVE
Incredible!!! YES.
You express yourself very beautifully. In fact, many of the things you talk about I have thought about many times, but you have said it so much better than I could.
Indeed, "school" is all wrong. Among indigenous people, LIFE itself was learning, an odyssey. I think we would do well to return to that in whatever ways we can.
Thanks for sharing. Living into the questions. Thanks for being you. 🙏❤️
Thank you, Jamie. YES LIVING THE QUESTIONS! Thank you for being you, too! I re-read my own piece (I edit after I publish because it's easier to see my mistakes without getting caught up in them that way for me) and I as I re-read, I realized, "Living the Questions" would actually be a better title for the piece and thought of you.🩷
Yes! Apprenticeships need to be pushed again and remove the stigma that they are a second tier option. So many, who should have gone down a more practical route, were sold the University lie that it was the only path.
Agree!