Comments on: September Ho‘ohana; Lifelong Learning

By: Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching

Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:15:23 +0000

Joyful, Jubilant Learning: 64 ways and counting

Are you ready for this? It’s unbelievably dazzling. The powerful synergy of a learning community, of you. This is what you’ve taught me about Lifelong Learning this month. These are in no particular order; the numbers are the links to

By: Virtualosophy

Virtualosophy — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:35:29 +0000

Sax!

A few weeks ago, Dawn was telling me that her oldest, Kathryn, was going to be learning to play the clarinet.I mentioned that, as a child, I played the flute, but that I’d always found the sax to be a

By: Susanne Nyrop

Susanne Nyrop — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:06:57 +0000

Lifelong learning? yes, that’s me, too!
I’ve often felt that I was wasting part of my many school years, and that I could have made a stronger effort back then, but what did a wild teenager care about getting grades and doing homework? When I graduated, there was a translocation ceremony where some of us received a modest book prize, given “for good work done outside the clasroom”. That was right up my alley – we were three girls who had spent about a hundred hours, restoring the old school library, earning a neat sum of extra pocket money. We were a handful of students hwo arranged an art exhibit with student oeuvres; mine were a group of prints created last minute, the evening before. We had worked backstage with decorations and costumes for the yearly drama play, we started a film club and a book club, wrote articles for the student paper and the year book – but sometimes we were too exhausted by all these extracurricular activities to do our homework!
And, by then we did not have the internet…
Today, I find that I’m taking sort of a revenge; I cannot get tired of learning new things, so many that I sometimes feel I could stay awake for days without a need to stop!
Somehow I have lost sight of this month’s Ho’oana, and I still feel I would like to read Rosa’s MWA once more before I start writing my personal review of the book. MY reason for coming back just tonight was that I needed to refer a friend to MWA and see how to catch up. So good to know that this enlightening conversation will stay, and I can get back reading more next time I have nothing urgent to do. Hm. Oh – and for the homework part? I’m actually procrastinating because I’ve a deadline!
So I guess I’d better get offline and just write what needs to get written!
yours
Sus

By: Dick Richards

Dick Richards — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:47:55 +0000

Thank you Rosa for the prod about “haunting.” I meant it in the sense that Norman Maclean uses it in the last line of “A River Runs Through It” (one of my all time favorites). The line is, “I am haunted by waters.”
In that sense you are quite right to call it energizing and challenging. The question haunts me in that way — it calls rather than spooks.

By: Rothacker Reviews

Rothacker Reviews — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 23:18:12 +0000

Observing is Learning

Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird , says, Writing is about learning to pay attention and to communicate what is going on. In a school sense, learning never came easy to me. The effort put forth to obtain grades

By: Rosa

Rosa — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 03:02:58 +0000

Yes Yvonne, I would absolutely agree with you; especially when I consider the connection to aloha and our sharing of “the breath of life,” for I do believe we learn best via the connections we have with other people: those we share our lives with become our best mentors and teachers.
Do you suppose that’s why contemplation can be tougher at times, or if not tougher, take longer, because we tend to do that alone, with only the walls of our own brains to echo back at us? Positive feedback loops are so much more fulfilling with others.
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Aloha Tim, so good to hear from you! I was thinking of you when I was in Prescott with my son, imagining what the start of the school year looked and felt like for you in your neck of the woods. At ERAU I had the stimulating good fortune to meet the officers of their Student Government Assn in what they called a “Straight Talk” session. Seeing how these students so naturally and confidently assume what they see as their responsibility for leadership was both inspiring and comforting: They truly gave me the impression that they will be equipped to deal with whatever future we have hurled at them.
I have never before put the words “lifelong” and “leaders” together, and yet seeing you do so here, makes me wonder why not, for it really does open up an entirely new realm of thought: it raises the bar.
Thank you both for such great comments; I am looking forward to the great writing/ sharing/ learning I KNOW you both have coming! Rosa

By: studentl.inc

studentl.inc — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 01:08:48 +0000

Focus On Learning

September is traditionally the time when students head back to school. In my own house, my kids are showing off their new school supplies, new school clothes, and talking about their new teachers. While there is great excitement to get

By: timage

timage — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 00:35:48 +0000

Rosa – What a great theme for the “back to school” season. I have been reflecting on my own learning and the process that I am going..err…growing through. As you know, I work with student leaders. It is a fine balance to encourage them to lead, as well as, to learn. I believe that one can learn without having to lead, but one cannot lead without being a learner. Lifelong leaders are also lifelong learners.
As a leader, I learned a long time ago that a person must PLAN for their own growth. It doesn’t happen automatically. So I join you in your quest to encourage myself and others to become “students” in our own learning environments.

By: Yvonne DiVita

Yvonne DiVita — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 21:49:06 +0000

Learning is fundamental to breathing, don’t you think, Rosa? I always learn so much from you, from your writing and from the so marvelous interaction of your growing community. You’ve given me something to contemplate…I will give this careful thought before writing. As usual, you challenge us (me!) to reflect on what’s happening to the inner me, as opposed to the outer me.
Interesting…

By: Rothacker Reviews

Rothacker Reviews — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:10:25 +0000

Taco Bell: New Tampa

You don’t even want to think of going in there! It took us fifteen minutes to get a cup of cheese. I nervously smiled at the teenage couple as they walked by and shook their heads with one of those,