Some quick notes before it is time to get ready for work. Today is a day where I'm likely to spend more time sitting--a contrast to yesterday where I managed to walk over 17,000 steps in a day.
--Let me remember what a good idea a scavenger hunt is in terms of Orientation. I wonder if I could do something similar with my college students. Would I send them to various departments? Would I send them to find things (poems or books or other objects) that I had pre-hidden? Have them find different kinds of trees? Have them work in groups to find items of interest and have them provide a tour? I like this idea best. And then we could talk about the different kinds of writing that might flow from the experience.
--Yesterday I looked through the classic Stages of Faith by James Fowler. I remember reading it in college, trying to determine which stage I was in. Now I look at the charts in the back, and none of it seems to fit my faith journey. Those ideas, rooted in Piaget and Kohlberg, make even less sense to me now than they did when I was in college and read Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice, a response to the work of Piaget and Kohlberg, a contrast.
--Those books were both published in the early 80's just before I went to college. Now they are classics, and once they were cutting edge.
--In yesterday's library rummaging, I also found a copy of Sarah Ban Breathnach's Simple Abundance, another book that changed my life in so many ways. Here, too, the book doesn't seem so revolutionary, and some of the suggestions almost reactionary (handkerchiefs scented with lilac water? really?). But there's no denying the power of a gratitude journal, that daily noticing that helps reorient one's outlook.
--Juneteenth has only been a holiday for a few years, and I have it off tomorrow. I am looking forward to it, while also dreading the dentist appointment that I rescheduled.
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