Sunday, September 24, 2006

Draft one for Our Heritage of Growth, opening reading

Our Heritage of Growth

Some things are as old as the dirt.
Some things have been here forever.
Some things will never change.

The heart has always yearned for love and acceptance.
The mind has always sought to make connections with what it has known before.
The hands have always itched to create what we need and what we admire.

What is new to us now, will become old.
What has been here forever can disappear.
What has always been, can change, and then change again.

Bring your heart to this place, and share it in the spirit of love and acceptance.
Speak your mind in this place, and listen for the connections it can make here.
Use your hands here, to work and create a home for our visions and our dreams.

Some things are as old as the dirt,
the dirt that nourishes and gives way to new growth,
to new connections, new visions, and new dreams.
What has always been, can be here, in this place.

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Bookshelf

Shannon's currently-reading book montage

The Complete Poems
Collected Poems
Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011
Anti-Bias Education for young children and ourselves
I Laugh So I Won't cry: kenya's Women Tell the Stories of Their Lives
How to Be Compassionate: a Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World
Children
The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach Advanced Reflections
The Secret Garden


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Shannon's read-in-2012 book montage

Rethinking Early Childhood Education
Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children
Safari Animals
Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic: Implications of Piaget's theory (early childhood education series
Total Learning: Developmental Curriculum for the Young Child
Clinical Supervision and Teacher Development


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