Beginning well or beginning poorly, what is important is simply to begin, but the ability to make a good beginning is also an art form. Like picking up a new and unfamiliar musical instrument, the first necessary step involves taking the time to get a simple clear note, usually the simple clear note of forgiveness that comes in allowing yourself the right, at this stage, not to know anything at all. Beginning anything well involves a clearing away of the confusing, the cluttered and the complicated to find the beautiful, often hidden lineaments of the essential and the necessary.
David Whyte from 'Beginning' in Consolations
"To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom." - Oliver Sachs
Trees, Zadie Smith, poetry, James Baldwin, science, Mary Shelley, love, Viktor Frankl, depression, Walt Whitman, creativity, Octavia Butler – the best of Brain Pickings this year, in one place: https://t.co/moChVTzKnf
Last week, our student well-being committee hosted representatives from 22 Canterbury schools to participate in an appreciative inquiry about well-being in the current global context. You can read about the process here: https://t.co/xWpBmnXZgN