Week 3 Reading Reflexion "How Fascinating!"-Benjamin Zanders
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Photograph taken by: Vivian Tejedor, collecting seeds from, heliconia bloom. |
Lighting a spark, as I struggle with the thought of sometimes taking myself too seriously. I can’t help but feel sad for the opportunities I might have missed to light a spark in my students when caught in a downward spiral to cover a lesson or worried about classroom management. I keep repeating to myself, try not to miss another opportunity to light a spark, I imagine a burning coal in my pocket, hoping I won’t forget.
As I finish this week reading, I realized that what I call my escape to a lush exuberant nature is not an escape but my passion. I never called it a passion before because it has always been a special space for me to get lost. The space I am talking about is a heliconia farm, my father and I have been conduits to its transformation. We have collected and nursed seeds from every place possible to the point of risking malaria. In this space I allow myself to apply all the habits proposed by the authors’ in the art of possibilities without a second thought. This is the space where I am most at peace. I still find myself resistant to apply the habits proposed by the authors’ in the art of possibilities outside of my safe space. I propose, to myself, I am going to stop taking myself so seriously outside of my safe space. I know I will fail from time to time, well “How fascinating!”
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