feelings before facings

(pre-face*)

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Conceptions which are underlying for

our further understanding here - as such:

Ontologies are central if we’d more

relate in ways that grasp, but do not clutch.

The purpose of our grasping-well affects

the way we use and interact, and know.

The ways we interface and share reflect

the kinds of stuff appropriate to show

and tell within these times we learn & teach

and form each other, or deform stuff too.

Re-forming right relating here with each -

as much as it depends on me (& you).

Affecting our Epistemologies, 

our Pedagogy, Ethics will flow on..

Communities that practice truth will please

not power mongers, people who belong

to such communities that listen well, 

yet do not lose their voice by doing so;

in fact their service, fighting all the hell

that thoughtlessness does spawn, will go to show

and tell these stories, of the others here,

because we’re tuning in to their own speech

or lack of it. Acts make options appear,

creative, they make space for all & each.

And tuning in ourselves to deeper things

that colour all our acting, speech, and thought:

The "hidden wholeness" & imaginings

we wake up to brings more than what we brought.

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Footnote

e* - Reflecting on the Preface (entitled “Recovery of Community in Education”) to the Paperback Edition of Parker Palmer’s book “To know as we are known - Education as a spiritual journey”, which was first published in 1993.

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