Thanks Mike,
WOW, yes, we are all works in progress, though some of us feel the need
for more 'editing" I deeply appreciate your response, perhaps poetry
school was a good pre-requisite for many things.
And the places where we confront our fragility and humanity are good
schools too, whether they be the classroom, 5th dimension, the seniors
facility, mental health, and so on.
I guess it also comes down to the kinds of questions we ask - that elicit
certain unanswerables that keep us going
I have been blessed with great teachers in my life and, according to my
irish genotype, enough heartbreak too.
kathryn
>Those of us still living are all works in progress from 1987, but what a
>difficult and interesting set of pathways you have taken. I visit an old
>folks home periodically where, it seems, the people are mostly drugged/
>ignored/abused in large and small ways. And its a fancy facility. And
>a great reminder of what it means to avoid that kind of isolation and
>pain as one's last experiences of life.
>
>de Castells is of course another intersecting common thread in our
>discussions.
>
>radical adult/feminist educator sounds like a good job description.
>mike
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Kathryn Alexander,
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