Wonderful stories. My take on the butterfly story is that it is easier to just close down and protect oneself from the negative energy of others than it is to let your inner light and joy shine, regardless. Because opening oneself up to ignoring the negative and focusing on the positive comes with a certain vulnerability. It means that those people may not respond to your light and still react negatively. It takes a certain amount of courage to shine your light.
Carol A. Hand
At the moment, I am dealing with the challenges that always accompany innovation. For the past two weeks, when I wasn’t working outside on gardens, I was developing a new research class that began yesterday. (This is the main reason why I haven’t had a chance to read and respond to many blogs lately.)
In the process of conceptualizing the class, I reflected on the knowledge and skills that would be helpful to students in the future. Most research is built on what worked in the past in narrow clinical settings with little thought about the current socio-political context or broader future implications. I decided to try my own research experiment by testing out an experiential approach for teaching research that engages students in exploring the impact of climate change for vulnerable populations and the effectiveness of responses to recent disasters. (Duluth is still dealing with the consequences of torrential…
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