hi julie - congratulations from me too...and it's lovely to read your thoughts again after a couple-month pause...
chris > From: Michael Herman <[email protected]> > Organization: Michael Herman Associates > Reply-To: OSLIST <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:15:02 -0600 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Here you go... Soul Mates! > > executive director! ...sounds like you're gonna be *in charge* julie! > congrats! and the montessori regional conference winter last year ran in > open space. proceedings were posted in wiki at > http://www.globalchicago.net/ams maybe something of interest there. best > of luck in the new gig. <grin> m > > > > Julie Smith wrote: > >> Thank you for this beautiful quote, Anne. I was recently hired as >> Executive Director of a Montessori school, and almost immediately felt >> compelled to post a quote of the day as a way of revealing my soul to >> my new community. This quote from Clarissa Pinkola Estes is a >> beautiful description of the insistent internal nudging that I >> experienced, and that compelled me to reveal myself in this way. >> >> It took me a bit of soul searching to submit to my internal nudging >> because revealing myself made me feel vulnerable to criticism from my >> new community. As I was working my way through these feelings, I >> couldn t shake the idea that posting these quotes was another way of >> walking the circle, of providing a focal point for slowing down >> externally and raising awareness internally. Every day as I take one >> quote down and tack another to the bulletin board, I m walking the >> circle with my community. The wisdom that flows through the words >> flows through me, reminding me to walk slowly, slowly, gracefully, >> mindfully, holding safe and open space for everything and everyone, >> whispering greetings of namaste in my heart to everyone I meet. Just >> as when I walk a circle, I can already see faces and bodies begin to >> relax. Already, I ve seen conversations begin to open, and rifts begin >> to heal. Already, I feel the sprouting of seeds of right-relationship, >> of self-empowerment and self-determination, of mutual respect and >> trust. It s really quite an exhilarating experience. >> >> Julie * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
