Reclaiming Education

Reclaiming Education

I have been pondering Education of late. As an Educator, I am reminded of the words of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who said… “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character...
Heed the Watcher

Heed the Watcher

Winter is the planet’s way of saying time to rest and reset. I think Sir Ken spoke to it well. Creating and recreating; rest and reset. In Honor Your Spirit, I opened with “Our lives matter; and we need Honor them.” Our body is a powerful messenger...
Honor Your Spirit

Honor Your Spirit

Our lives matter; and we need Honor them. In Let It Go, I wrote “I seek nothing than to be my best Barry Unit. My full on wholehearted intent is to be The Barry Unit, the 900 pound Gorilla, and BEARfox. Other expectations be damned. And, with that, as I finish...
Let It Go

Let It Go

First, if you have not seen it, watch this. Second, I am thinking on letting it go today. Third, that thinking is born of thoughts in and around these recent posts on pursuing excellence, and introducing AuKwords and my favourite book revisited. Fourth, let me explore...
Pursuing Excellence

Pursuing Excellence

LP Jacks said, “The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply...