Category: Inspiring the Imagination
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I have been on a journey learning how the qualities of childhood are the qualities of transformative educators, parents, social entrepreneurs, and all those in the global village of childhood. But also the qualities of play, creativity, risk taking, resilience, and collaboration are powerful in everyday moments and as a lifestyle. For example, I was…
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An Original Song-Poem by David Charles Metler First, push your ears closer to your beat feel the thunder of your pulse and the lightning that strikes with each step of your own feet Know that everyone you see has dreams given off the same heat With each breath there’s all this linking between what’s in…
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An Original Poem by David Charles Metler The picket line The lines between countries The line between you and where the rest of the world begins There may be no line more powerful of telling whether the future will be different than the present than watching kindergarteners line up. “Line up and be quiet” the…
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An Original Poem by David Charles Metler In marches, in milestones, and also in moments The times in which you feel you are enough your head eases into your pillow toes stretching out with certainty that children would be proud of you and your generation Those moments of integrity In marches, in milestones, and also…