“We are looking to build a life that is conducive to family. In order to do this, we need to follow a Tribal or Agregarian model. When you do this, you’ll be doing less “stuff” at the right time to bolster educational results. We need to look at definite seasons. You may not live in a climate that is conducive to such, but all of us can pay attention.
If you need to plant, plant in the Spring for the Fall. If you plant erroneously or prematurely, you’ll deliver “summer goods.” Plant for Fall in the Spring, and generate excitement with your students by talking about it.
Spring is a time for new birth, new life, planting, concerts, plays, recitals, retreats, vision…” ~ Oliver DeMille
The Forum in Salt Lake City was GREAT!
I am still pinching myself that I was privileged enough to speak at such an incredible gathering of TJEd community.
Community, as I have said many times before, is vital.
It strengthens.
It provides clarity of purpose and opportunity for epiphany.
Even though there are hundreds present at this conference…
it is a definite “retreat.”
It lends opportunity for vision.
And clarity.
There are huge strengthening factors to experiencing so many like-minded individuals…
together where Leadership Education and its tenents are explored and discussed.
And the fellowship amongst friends, both old and new is amazing!
The weather can be a somewhat shocking adjustment…
this is MARCH, for goodness sake!
This kid LOOKS like he loves me…
as you will soon see…
looks can be deceiving!
A quick stop by George Wythe, so that traveling companion and friend, Joelle Mancuso…
can experience a tour…
and a quick perusal of the library to fuel the brain for the finer points of car colloquia.
With Son #3…
Who takes advantage of the snow and PEGS his mother.
PUNK!
Upon perusal of the Forum schedule…
a myriad of options and topics await you!
Not to mention the “after-hours” touring options that go well into the night!
Along with three snow falls in two days!
Wild weather for Southern Californians.
Meanwhile…
back at “The Ranch”…
“Nature…makes nothing in vain.” ~ Aristotle
Sons 1, 2, 4, and 5 are entertaining themselves in a Leadership Education fashion!
Son #1 has his girlfriend visiting our family from Arizona.
He and #2, decide to take everyone on a day hike to Ladder Canyon…
a nearby reserve.
It is beautiful there…
and the rains have produced some incredible flowers…
some of which only bloom once every seven years in the desert!
There is much to experience and see…
and even some time for personal contemplation in the great outdoors!
Great memories are made, responsibility is proven and shown…
Thought and events are filed away, to be retrieved at a later date.
Parents of CORE and Love of Learning phases…
Plant well, and they will lead from a place of strength and substance that reflects a strong family identity and amazing responsibility.
They serve…
from an equally strong place…
when their mother, who has been carousing a bit too much at the Forum…
draws a blank about 2 of the 8 Keys right before her talk begins!
They calmly and confidently reference the material for her…
from wherever they are, and text it to her!
They generally and most always think before they leap!
Thank God.
When what appears to be stable ground…
is in all actuality a sheer cliff on the other side!
Could come up later in life…
in a figurative form.
And when they encounter the unexpected…
And #5 fails rather miserably…
by running through the canyon screaming SNNNAAAKKKKEEE!
Again, #1 and #2 are fully capable of taking care of said “crisis”…
even though the snake is a rattler…
with S-E-V-E-N rattles…
because they have studied and prepared.
For years.
Every year.
At the Living Desert.
They step in and deal with it.
Modeling capable leadership to their younger siblings…
thus “saving the world.”
These are, indeed, the important things in life.
Reflect again upon Oliver’s quote.
What are you planting and when?
Do you need to adjust?
Correct your vision…
or possibly get a great one?
It’s Spring!
And Fall will be here before you know it.
So tell me…
What are you planning on planting, regardless of what phase you’re in?
How are you committing to renewed vision?
Retreat?
If you could create a phenomenal collaboration of community, and didn’t have to travel…
what would it contain?
I want to know!
Until Friday…
Recent Comments