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<strong>Harsens Island Bluegrass Festival slated for Mid August</strong></span></span></div></strong></span></span><div style="color: #5a5a50; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #5a5a50; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>On Harsens Island they'll be celebrating summer old school -- literally.</strong></span></div><div style="color: #5a5a50; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div> </div></div><div style="color: #5a5a50; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>The playground of the historic former two-room Harsens Island Schoolhouse will come alive with the sounds of traditional and contemporary bluegrass music and the aroma of smoky barbecue on Sunday, Aug. 15 when the island hosts its first-ever <em>Harsens Island Bluegrass Festival.</em></strong><strong><div> </div><div>The <em>Harsens Island Bluegrass Festival</em> will play out at the Schoolhouse Grille, 2669 Columbine on Harsens Island from noon to 9 p.m. Tickets are $20, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Harsens Island Lions Club Family Emergency Fund. (See box below for ticket sales locations). Traveling to Harsens Island, which is about an hour from Detroit and many other Metro Detroit and Port Huron area cities, includes a $7 ferry ride (in your car!) on the Champion Auto Ferry. </div></strong></span></div><div style="color: #5a5a50; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><div> </div></strong></span></div><div style="color: #5a5a50; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"></span></div><span style="color: black;"><div><strong>For festival producer Kate Hart, the event on the Lake Saint Clair island is about hearkening back to simpler times when families took leisurely Sunday drives, enjoyed picnics and barbecues and listened to roots music in a beautiful setting.</strong></div><div> </div><div>"There are few places as beautiful as Harsens Island," <strong>said Hart, who fell in love with the island and moved there two years ago.</strong> "When we planned this festival we chose Bluegrass because it is lively and fun and steeped in American tradition. </div><div> </div><div>"I believe people truly want to get back to basics. This festival allows them to visit a beautiful place, enjoy some of the best bluegrass bands in the region, share each other's company, and feast on mouth-watering, slow-cooked barbecue."</div><div><br />
Organizers made a concerted effort to seek regional vendors specializing in natural, organic, handmade crafts. Nearly 50 artists and vendors will display their work and goods at the first-time island festival.</div><div> </div><div>Even some of the sponsors fit the natural theme. Sponsor and event beer provider, Patrick Hool, microbrews his beer in St. Clair adjacent to Sue's Coffee House, a mom and pop operation. Cooper's Canine of Algonac, another sponsor, sells all natural pet products. Preferred Charters, of Port Huron, will provide old-time trolley rides to festival goers for a small fee, bringing them on a brief tour from offsite parking locations such as Sunset Harbor Marina, Brown's Field and the Lion's Hall.</div><div> </div><div>Between the island beauty, the art and goods and the fabulous fare, festival goers will be kept plenty entertained. But Hart -- a Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter who spent the better part of 40 years on the road singing with some of the best in blues -- knew that having the best regional entertainers in bluegrass was vital to a great experience.</div><div> </div><div>"I think we've found some incredible groups for our festival," Hart said. "With headliners Lonesome County we'll have great bluegrass traditions and outstanding musical talent. Skin and Bones leans toward Country and will bring some really interesting elements, including a drummer who plays an amplified 1940s tweed suitcase. Each group has a special quality that people should really enjoy. And at the end of the evening, Deepwater Bluegrass will lead everyone in campfire songs."</div><div><br />
<strong>Tickets are $20 and are on sale now</strong>. For information on where and how to purchase them, see the box directly below.</div><div> </div><div><strong>The musical lineup to date is: Lonesome County, Company of Strangers, Skin and Bones, Balduck Mountain Ramblers, Catfish Mafia and Deepwater Bluegrass. For more information about the bands and to hear their music see "The Lineup!" below and click the links. WYCD and WPON Talk Show Host Sheldon Kay will be the event emcee. </strong></div></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544898023046990236.post-86879610636509951272010-06-13T10:09:00.000-04:002010-06-13T10:09:29.048-04:00Ready Set Action.........<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7BV65BTdBjcpvWeX2ziyI1OaS5rDLV6XyYqsbOZwXspkWZ5zqAYcX2TmaNx6bAqpjX6Rr7r6_qEL0qxHYROc2XEnvWZUg5pJCGlqQeXpPRNJJyn7WZuH85faW-0Zdb6ZeyIYibQG1KrE/s1600/Schoolhouse+Grille.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7BV65BTdBjcpvWeX2ziyI1OaS5rDLV6XyYqsbOZwXspkWZ5zqAYcX2TmaNx6bAqpjX6Rr7r6_qEL0qxHYROc2XEnvWZUg5pJCGlqQeXpPRNJJyn7WZuH85faW-0Zdb6ZeyIYibQG1KrE/s320/Schoolhouse+Grille.jpg" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544898023046990236.post-3909349115890794262010-06-12T12:13:00.002-04:002010-06-12T12:16:58.845-04:00Meeting: Schoolhouse Grille (Kristen Bane) June 11, 2010 3:00PM<a href="http://www.schoolhousegrille.com/">http://www.schoolhousegrille.com</a>JimBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11675329554550730818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544898023046990236.post-43422188200035797202010-06-10T14:02:00.000-04:002010-06-10T14:02:14.989-04:00Meeting: Stewart Farm (Bob Williams) June 11, 2010 1:00PMUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544898023046990236.post-22195129983293606472010-02-24T05:25:00.000-05:002010-02-24T05:25:09.897-05:00Could not find the Video<span class="maintitle" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">BREAKING THE ICE</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">To visualize the conse quences of a 9-mile long ice jam in the St. Clair River, try a quick visit to the Mc Machen Boating Center along North River Road in Harrison Township: The building, which straddles the land and river, is visibly slanted toward the ab normally low water.<br />
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Turn the handle on the front door, and gravity quick ly takes over, slamming it open.<br />
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“Usually we’re sitting straight,” said Bill Mc Ma chen, whose son, Mark Mc Machen, owns the busi ness.<br />
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The jam is causing floods to the north and low water levels to the south.<br />
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The U.S. Coast Guard is ex pected to begin a joint mission today with the Canadian coast guard that should eliminate the ice jam this week, U.S. Rep. Candice Miller said Sun day.<br />
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The jam, considered the worst of its kind since 1984, can be traced to a single week of pleasant weather in late January.<br />
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That spell of mid-40-de gree delight softened the ice that had formed atop Lake Huron.<br />
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Then came some wind from the north, and the ice broke apart, headed south in chunks toward the river’s mouth, got carried away by the current, and bottlenecked in the narrower waterway of the river, said Bryan Tilley, a</span></span><span class="abody" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> meteorologist with the Na tional Weather Service in White Lake Township.<br />
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“Once things loosened up in January, it wasn’t able to solidify back into ice,” said Tilley.<br />
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Along the river south of Al gonac, the water dips low enough to expose unpainted portions of seawalls. In some areas, the river bottom is vis ible through the ice.<br />
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And although swans swim ming upstream might be stealthy enough to dodge the problem, some boats haven’t been so lucky: Every day this month, the Coast Guard has had to rescue ships that ma neuvered into the thick of the ice, only to find they had no way out.<br />
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Don Chase, a controller with the U.S. Coast Guard Command Center in Detroit, said icebreaking cutters have helped free local lakers, freight ships and tankers ever since the first ice jam was re ported about three weeks ago. “It’s our job, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to keep that river moving for flood relief and commercial traffic,” Chase said.<br />
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The ice chunks are slam ming into docks along the way, wreaking havoc on mari nas such as Mac Ray Harbor in Harrison Township, where Gerry and Diane Prainito house their 33-foot Four Winns power boat.<br />
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Diane Prainito is worried</span><span class="abody" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> that low water levels and dock repairs will delay the start of the boating season.<br />
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“You can see the ground, the water’s so low,” said Prai nito, who took pictures Sun day of the ice jam along M-29, just north of the Russell Is land ferry.<br />
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The U.S. cutters — the Neah Bay from Cleveland; the Mobile Bay from Sturgeon Bay, Wis., and the Mackinaw from Cheboygan — will be joined by the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Samuel Risley from Parry Sound, Ontario.<br />
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The ferry service to Har sens Island will be suspended until the icebreakers com plete their mission, Miller said.</span><span class="abody" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em;"><br />
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<div class="main-photo"><img alt=""We knew the downturn was coming. ... we knew we were going to run out of work by the end of the first quarter of 2009." John Holcomb, general manager of MasTech's Manistee facility, who had an idea to save the supplier. (ROMAIN BLANQUART/DFP)" border="0" src="http://cmsimg.freep.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=C4&Date=20091213&Category=SPECIAL04&ArtNo=312130004&Ref=AR&Profile=1318&MaxH=361&MaxW=480&Q=75" title=""We knew the downturn was coming. ... we knew we were going to run out of work by the end of the first quarter of 2009." John Holcomb, general manager of MasTech's Manistee facility, who had an idea to save the supplier. (ROMAIN BLANQUART/DFP)" /><br />
"We knew the downturn was coming. ... we knew we were going to run out of work by the end of the first quarter of 2009." John Holcomb, general manager of MasTech's Manistee facility, who had an idea to save the supplier. (ROMAIN BLANQUART/DFP)<br />
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<b>BY KATHLEEN GRAY</b><br />
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FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER<br />
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<i>John Holcomb felt the cold winds blowing through the auto industry as early as 2006. But it took him three years and a dream to come up with a survival plan in which wind would play a big part.</i><br />
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<i>As general manager of the Manistee factory of Sterling Heights-based MasTech, Holcomb had made a good living for three years supervising the production of machines and assembly lines for auto manufacturers. But <a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20091213/SPECIAL04/312130001/1318">he saw trouble coming</a> in September 2006, when Ford announced plans to close 16 plants, cut 44,000 jobs and revamp its product lines with an eye on becoming profitable again by 2009.</i><br />
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<i>Why, Holcomb wondered, weren't the other struggling auto companies embarking on similar plans?</i><br />
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"I saw Ford go out and secure funding for new, more economical models, and the rest of them weren't doing that," Holcomb said. "Changes weren't being made that would make them competitive on a broad enough scale. That was my first inkling that something was going to happen to the automotive industry."<br />
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His plans began to take shape a year later -- during a dream-induced conversation with his father and grandfather, both long dead, as Holcomb lay hospitalized in critical condition with a ruptured colon.<br />
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"I asked my dad and grandpa if I could go fishing with them and they said, 'No, it's not your time,' " he recalled. "At that point, I decided I had to do something to make a difference in a positive way."<br />
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So Holcomb hit upon alternative energy as a way to make a contribution to cleaning up the environment and keep a thriving business going in Manistee.<br />
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He went to Manistee's newly formed Alliance for Economic Success and pitched his idea: It was time for the group to aggressively recruit alternative energy businesses to the Lake Michigan shoreline community as a way to stave off the devastation that would come from an implosion of the auto industry.<br />
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"We knew the downturn was coming because all of the quote requests dried up, and then all the purchase orders dried up," Holcomb said. "We knew we were going to run out of work by the end of the first quarter of 2009."<br />
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As the alliance was hunting for alternative energy companies that also needed the machining expertise available in Manistee, Mariah Power of Reno, Nev., was looking for a place to build Windspires, residential wind turbines that were smaller and more compact than traditional windmills.<br />
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In October 2008, as auto sales were plunging and the Detroit Three were shutting plants and shedding thousands of employees, MasTech's Manistee operation began transforming from an auto industry supplier into a wind turbine factory.<br />
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Last January, the plant sent out its last automotive job -- an assembly line for a BMW plant in Spartanburg, S.C.<br />
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"I've been doing automotive all my life, and there's a certain sadness in getting out of that business," Holcomb said. "But it's also been refreshing to step away from the unwritten rules and regulations of the auto industry. So often, they didn't reward innovation."<br />
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The joint venture between Mariah and MasTech shipped its first Windspire on April 20 and has since built hundreds. Optimistic initial estimates called for production of 75 to 100 units a week, but the overall economic downturn has forced Holcomb to scale back to 100 a month.<br />
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"We're trying to continue to get the American people to spend some money. And we've had a hard time getting traction for sales because of zoning issues," Holcomb said. "Right now, I'm talking to as many zoning boards as salespeople."<br />
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From a high of 43 employees, MasTech is down to 35, many of whom worked in the auto industry. That's a steady level of employment from about 40 as an auto supplier.<br />
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"I worked in the automotive industry for 15 years, and now I'm doing the complete turnaround," said Sean Jacobs, 39, a machinist from Manistee.<br />
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Adam Morris, 37, of Ludington had been working in an auto die stamping plant in Grand Rapids but jumped at the chance to move to MasTech.<br />
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"I wanted to be in a business that was more secure," he said.<br />
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The company has plans for expansion.<br />
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This fall, it began producing a Windspire that is large enough to store wind-created energy in a battery for future residential or vehicle use. MasTech expects to begin construction on another production facility in mid-2010 to meet expected demand from overseas.<br />
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"We have some really huge orders pending overseas. We thought we'd sell more domestically right off the bat," Holcomb said. "But it turns out there's more interest right now in Europe, Asia and north Africa than in Iowa."<br />
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And, thanks in part to a dream, MasTech's Manistee plant will deliver.<br />
<i>Contact KATHLEEN GRAY: 313-223-4407 or <a href="mailto:kgray99@freepress.com">kgray99@freepress.com</a></i><br />
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November 19, 2009 <br />
What Adele Diamond is learning about the brain challenges basic assumptions in modern education. Her work is scientifically illustrating the educational power of things like play, sports, music, memorization and reflection. What nourishes the human spirit, the whole person, it turns out, also hones our minds. <br />
I listened to Adele Diamond's interview and you can too. There is a podcast on the link posted above. Adele is a Nuero scientist whose studies confirm the absolute necessity of maintaining a holistic learning/living environment to engage and maintain a child's cognitive development.<br />
As we know, the nourished Mind and Spirit are inseperable and along with a nourished body will allow for all children to grow into responsible creative individuals who are capable of solving the challenges facing them and life on this planet.<br />
I would challenge you to listen to the podcast and comment on how we can get together to create and expand the kinds of learning communities that would foster these opportunities for all children.JimBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11675329554550730818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544898023046990236.post-26088835329534015482009-11-19T05:28:00.001-05:002009-11-19T05:28:58.643-05:00"Fly Me to the Moon!"<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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Detroit Metro Airport may soon gain two new features: lottery games and small wind turbines.<br />
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On Nov. 17, the Wayne County Airport Authority board is likely to approve a licensing agreement with the Michigan Bureau of State Lot tery that would enable travel ers at Metro to play a number of state lottery games, such as instant tickets, Mega Millions and Club Keno.<br />
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The games would be avail able at gates, baggage claim</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;"> areas, sit-down bars and other locations throughout the Mc Namara and North Terminals, with staffed lottery redemption points of service provided by selected airport retailers.<br />
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Airport officials estimate the lottery agreement will gen erate $360,000 annually or $1.8 million over the initial 5 year contract term, as well as revenues for the state. Lottery games are already offered by a few other airports, including Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta In ternational Airport.<br />
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Metro could also soon start generating its own wind power.<br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">Airport officials are seeking approval from the authority board to purchase five Windspire wind turbines.<br />
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Three of the 30-foot-tall turbines would be installed at the airport’s north entrance, near the intersection of Rogell Drive and Burton Drive.<br />
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Two others would be at the airport’s south entrance, near the south cell phone lot off of Eureka Road.<br />
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The small turbines, which are made in Manistee by Mas Tech Manufacturing, would not violate Metro’s airspace regulations.</span></span><br />
</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544898023046990236.post-59678612680369329242009-10-23T08:19:00.001-04:002009-10-23T08:19:40.127-04:00Mid-Course SUMMARY of OUR Conversations and Intentions (The VALUE of the Self-Examined Life!)<h1 class="documentFirstHeading"><span id="parent-fieldname-title"> <span style="color: red;">Parker Palmer: Know Yourself, Change Your World </span> </span> </h1><div class="articleSubheadline"><span id="parent-fieldname-subheadline"> <b>In the work you do each day, how do you distinguish truth from fraud, build community, and speak up for what’s right? </b></span><br />
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</div>Why do bankers make unethical investments, and what makes teachers burn out after a year on the job? Acclaimed educator and author Parker J. Palmer says most of us lack an understanding of our inner lives. If we learned in school how to navigate the inner landscapes of our lives, we might gain the tools to make it through difficult times, and clarify and act on our deepest values. Palmer is the author of <i>A Hidden Wholeness</i>, <i>Let Your Life Speak</i>, and <i>The Courage to Teach</i>, and a founder of the Center for Courage and Renewal. YES! Executive Editor Sarah van Gelder spoke with him about why “reflection” should be the fourth “R” of education. <b><br />
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</div></div></dd></dl><b>Sarah:</b> Why does learning about the inner life make you a better teacher, or doctor, or carpenter, or citizen?<br />
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<b>Parker:</b> Every line of work is deepened by bringing all of our human capacities to bear on whatever we are doing, and that includes our inner sensibilities as well as our externally oriented knowledge and skill.<br />
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Doctors who are acquainted with their inner landscapes are better able to help their patients draw on the healing power of their own psyches and spirits. The relation between a doctor’s emotional self-awareness and a patient’s well-being is so well-grounded in clinical evidence that many medical schools are now making doctor-patient relationships a regular part of a physician’s preparation.<br />
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<b>Sarah:</b> What exactly do you mean by the inner life?<br />
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<b>Parker:</b> The inner landscape has at least three dimensions: a cognitive and intellectual dimension; an emotional, psychological dimension; and a spiritual dimension. My definition of spiritual is that it involves the eternal human yearning to be connected with something larger than my own ego.<br />
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</div><div class="pullquote">Engaging the inner life also makes for a more ethical professional practice. As we look around the professions today—not least in the world of business and accounting—we see why we need people who have an examined inner life to strengthen the ethics of those professions.<br />
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So, for example, if you’re a great historian, you may be seeking to be connected with the massive story of human development over time, which rescues you from the smallness of your own story. An astronomer or a physicist may likewise find meaning and purpose in the larger story of their discipline’s contribution to human knowledge. If you’re a seeker on a more traditional religious path, you may find that larger connection beyond your own ego in Allah or Yahweh or God or in the void, in the Godhead, the Buddha, and so on.<br />
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My definition of spirituality doesn’t prescribe any particular path. Instead, it opens up an inquiry. We need such an inquiry in education because sometimes the answer people come up with in response to their spiritual yearning is the Third Reich, Aryan supremacy, or some other form of racism, sexism, or homophobia. We have all kinds of ways of saying, “My group is superior to your group,” and that’s the pathological way we get connected to something larger than our own egos.<br />
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So putting these questions on the table educationally is not only acceptable, it’s critical. When we leave them unexamined, we get a lot of darkness in the world as people fail to examine their underlying spiritual dynamics in relation to their work and other responsibilities.<br />
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You mentioned carpenters. My grandfather was a master carpenter. He had a sixth-grade education, but he had Einstein in his fingertips. His inner guidance was so strong that he could build a circular staircase in the middle of a house without using a miter box to cut the complex angles required. He’d cut them freehand and perfectly join that wood in a spiral.<br />
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My grandfather’s feeling for wood was parallel to the way geneticist Barbara McClintock worked with the biotic materials that led her to breakthrough discoveries in genetic transposition more than 50 years ago, long before we had the scientific instrumentation we have today. Of course, she had all the logical and observational powers you need to win a Nobel Prize in medicine. But she also had a relationship with the maize she studied that she called “a feeling for the organism.”<br />
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<a class="internal-link" href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/working-for-life/now-i-become-myself" title="Now I Become Myself">When we bring our inner lives into our work</a>, whatever we’re working with ceases to be an object to be manipulated and becomes instead a partner to co-create with. That’s what good teachers do with students, good doctors do with patients, good writers do with words, good potters do with clay.<br />
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<b>Sarah:</b> What role does an inner practice have in educational settings?<br />
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<b>Parker:</b> For starters, if we helped would-be teachers understand their inner lives, we’d have less teacher burnout. Fifty percent of those who enter public school teaching will be gone at the end of five years. Schools are too often places that don’t sustain human growth and development. And if you’re not supporting that growth in teachers, then you’re not doing that for students, because adults who don’t develop their own inner lives can’t pass those capacities on to the young.<br />
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If you want evidence of the importance of the inner life in institutional reform, look at the study of school reform in Chicago in the 1990s, done by Anthony Bryk and Barbara Schneider. [<a href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/learn-as-you-go/know-yourself-change-your-world/#trust-in-schools-a" title="Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement, Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 2004,...">1</a>]<br />
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The study asked why some schools do better than others at teaching reading, writing, and math. They found that none of the “usual suspects” made much of a difference in improving kids’ learning: not money, models of governance, state-of-the-art curriculum, in-service training, or technology.<br />
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But one variable made a huge difference, a variable the researchers called “relational trust.” If your school had high levels of relational trust—among teachers and between teachers and administrators, and teachers and parents—and/or a leadership team that cared about trust, then over 10 years, your chance of raising student performance in basic skills was five out of seven. If not, your chances dropped to two out of seven.<br />
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So, what goes into relational trust? I’d argue that it relies on the capacity to do inner work, to go beyond the ego into something larger—in this case, into the shared desire to help children grow up in a way that will give them a chance at good lives.<br />
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Doing inner work means grappling with questions such as, “How do I get my own ego out of the way enough to regard you as a collaborator rather than as a competitor? If you step on my toes, how can I forgive you and move on? And if I step on your toes, how do I forgive myself and ask for your forgiveness so we can move on together?”<br />
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Engaging the inner life also makes for a more ethical professional practice. As we look around the professions today—not least in the world of business and accounting—we see why we need people who have an examined inner life to strengthen the ethics of those professions.<br />
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Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” I’d add, if you choose to live an unexamined life, please do not take a job that involves other people! You’re likely to cause real damage if you do.<br />
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<b>Sarah:</b> When people get clear on their values, don’t they tend to change the institutions they work with?<br />
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<b>Parker:</b> Yes, the inner life is subversive! When you develop an awareness of your inner life, you became aware of the disparity between your integrity and the way the institutions around you operate. And you may become aware that you are part of the problem—that you live a divided life, that the actions your institutions demand of you conflict with your inner values.<br />
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</div><div class="pullquote">Institutions are projections of our own inner lives. Yes, they appear to have superhuman powers. But we can call them back to some semblance of humanity by reinventing them, because we invented them in the first place.<br />
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For example, a doctor at one of our Center for Courage and Renewal retreats said that the HMO where he works has him on the edge of violating his Hippocratic Oath two or three times a week. And under No Child Left Behind, <a class="internal-link" href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/learn-as-you-go/take-back-your-education" title="Take Back Your Education">many teachers are struggling with the demands of a testing system</a> that threatens their commitment to serve the best interests of kids.<br />
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At that point, you have to reach deep and ask yourself, “Am I going to continue to live a divided life? Am I going to tuck this under the rug and pretend that I don’t know what’s going on? Or am I going to become a moral change agent within my institution and rally like-minded people around me, coalescing our power to bring about institutional change?”<br />
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Part of our problem is that our major institutions are often so complex that outsiders who want to hold them accountable have little access. <a class="internal-link" href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/path-to-a-new-economy/3236" title="Don't Fix Wall Street, Replace It">Wall Street is a horrific example</a>. We all know what happened when so very few insiders were willing to say what they knew—that our markets and financial system had become a house of cards. We need people within these institutions to act as moral agents, watching out for the best interests of those who are supposed to be served and of society at large.<br />
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In <a class="external-link" href="http://www.changemag.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/November-December%202007/full-new-professional.html">a recent article I wrote for <i>Change Magazine</i></a> [<a href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/learn-as-you-go/know-yourself-change-your-world/#change-the-magazine-of" title="Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, November-December 2007, www.changemag.org. Read the article here.">2</a>], I argued that professional education must include the competencies individuals need to work toward change in our very dysfunctional institutions. In other words, all professionals ought to have some of the skills of a community organizer.<br />
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<b>Sarah:</b> In the new edition of your book, <i>The Courage to Teach</i>, you talk about debunking the myth that institutions possess autonomous power over our lives.<br />
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<b>Parker:</b> I tell a true story in <i>The Courage to Teach</i> about a medical resident who was given an impossible load of critical care patients to look after all by herself. She was unable to cope, and one of her patients died.<br />
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What do medical schools teach would-be doctors about their responsibilities and powers when they are asked to participate in wrongdoing? Do they teach them to blow the whistle on a system that puts them in an impossible situation? Or do they condition them to avoid getting crosswise with their superiors, and to just hope they make it through the day without anyone dying?<br />
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Institutions are projections of our own inner lives. Yes, they get large and complicated and appear to have superhuman powers. But we can call them back to some semblance of humanity by reinventing them, because we invented them in the first place. I think students don’t understand this. They believe that institutions have slots that you must fit into. But those slots are malleable, and those institutions can be rearranged. We have to help <a class="internal-link" href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/education-for-life/universal-education" title="Universal Education">empower students to learn how to do that</a>.<br />
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<b>Sarah:</b> Successful students are often the ones who did fit themselves into the slots within the educational institution that they graduated from.<br />
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<b>Parker:</b> That’s an important point. For generations, our schools have replicated the problems of our institutions. If you drive around small towns that haven’t rebuilt their high schools for the last 80 or 90 years, you see schools that were built to look like the factories that their graduates were going to work in. A lot of them look like those deadening assembly plant buildings that General Motors used to have, because the whole idea was to condition people to live and work under those circumstances.<br />
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But clearly that’s not education. Education was meant to be <i>liberating</i> for free men and women, which is where the name “liberal education” comes from.<br />
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<b>Sarah:</b> In <i>Change Magazine</i>, you proposed that we teach students how to “mine their emotions for knowledge.” What does that mean?<br />
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<b>Parker:</b> <a class="internal-link" href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/climate-solutions/the-greatest-danger" title="The Greatest Danger">Fear can be like the canary in the mine</a>. It’s trying to tell us that danger is coming and we need to do something about it. But people need help discerning their emotions, just as they need help discerning facts. We need to help students understand that some emotions come out of neurotic fears that can and must be overcome. But other emotions are pointing them toward external problems that they need to confront.<br />
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<a class="internal-link" href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/working-for-life/now-i-become-myself" title="Now I Become Myself">Now I Become Myself </a></b><br />
How do you find the right work, the work that you alone are called to do? The first step is to ask a different question... <br />
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<a class="internal-link" href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/education-for-life/796" title="Integral Life, Integral Teacher"><b>Integral Life, Integral Teacher </b></a><br />
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We do our best discernment in community, where many eyes, ears, sets of experiences, and voices can sort out the wheat from the chaff. That’s how every mode of human knowing proceeds, including science. All of us together are smarter than any one of us alone—especially if we listen to the dissenters and to the people raising critical questions.<br />
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When students work together, they can learn how to move toward provisional conclusions about what’s true and false, what’s right and wrong, which leads are worth following, and which of them can be laid down and forgotten. If our schools would do that, we would have more community in our lives, better results in the world of work, and deeper discernment by citizens in our political life.<br />
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Likewise, institutional change doesn’t come about simply through the actions of courageous whistle-blowers. It happens through the formation of communities of people who have a shared moral concern and who can provide encouragement, resources, and protection for each other. That way, the whistle-blower isn’t so easily picked off and hung out to dry.<br />
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I don’t know of any great movement that hasn’t depended on base communities to sustain individuals in the demanding work of social change.<br />
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<b>Sarah:</b> You ended your new edition of <i>The Courage to Teach</i> by saying, “Let us resist the temptation to respond with a fearful ‘no’ or an elusive ‘maybe,’ and allow our lives to speak a clear and heartfelt ‘yes.’” What does it mean to do that in the times we’re in today?<br />
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<b>Parker:</b> For the past eight years, we had political leaders who lied to us. They pumped up our fear of terrorism to persuade us to agree to subverting our Constitution and disempowering citizens—strategies that we’ve seen before in fascist and totalitarian societies.<br />
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Now, of course, we have the fear that the American economy has been, and continues to be, a house of cards. A lot of people are suffering, and there is more suffering to come.<br />
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Rebuilding is going to require lots of Americans to re-envision what abundance means. I experienced more abundance in the Quaker community called Pendle Hill—where I spent 11 years living on $2,400 a year (beginning in 1975) plus room and board—than I have at many other times of my life. This abundance comes from knowing that we’re there for one another. If the bottom falls out of my life, I have <a class="internal-link" href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/stand-up-to-corporate-power/in-review-personal-safety-nets" title="In Review :: Personal Safety Nets">a support net</a>, and if the bottom falls out of your life, I can be part of the support net for you. That’s abundance.<br />
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There are not many Americans who live in that kind of milieu, so we’re surrounded by fear. And yet, I don’t think there’s any more important time than this to say a heartfelt “yes” to the human possibility. That sense of possibility disappears when we say “no” or “If I can’t have my illusions about the economy and about America’s inherent greatness, then I’ll give up. I’ll hunker down, get what I can for me and my kind, and let the devil take the hindmost.” That can very quickly become a self-fulfilling prophecy.<br />
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So, we need to make “yes” a self-fulfilling prophecy. But it has to be a “yes” tempered by a clear-eyed knowledge of both what is going on and what we know to be possible.<br />
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The challenge is to stand and act in what I call “<a class="internal-link" href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/multimedia/yes-video/the-tragic-gap" title="The Tragic Gap">the tragic gap</a>.” This is the gap between the hard facts that surround us and what we know to be possible—not our dreams or fantasies, but what we know to be possible because we’ve seen the evidence with our own eyes, just as I saw evidence of communal abundance during my years at Pendle Hill.<br />
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It’s an ongoing journey <a class="internal-link" href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/power-of-one/find-a-place-to-stand" title="Find a Place To Stand">to stand in the tragic gap</a> and keep acting in hopeful ways, holding the tension between what is and what could be. It’s so easy to flip out either into cynicism—because the latest wave of bad news has just washed over you—or into a kind of idealism, because something has gone well and you allow yourself to imagine that it will be this way forever. A good example might be the people who thought Barack Obama would get everything right, who are now tempted to drop out of the political process as Obama proves to have feet of clay, the kind that come with being human.<br />
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When I think of the great leaders whom I admire—whether it’s Nelson Mandela, or Dorothy Day, who started the Catholic worker movement, or Martin Luther King, Jr., or Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar—I think of people who stood in the tragic gap for a long, long time, people who kept moving forward saying “yes” in full awareness of the hard realities around them while never abandoning their vision of possibility.<br />
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If more and more of us can hold that tension and keep moving forward by saying “yes, yes, yes” to each incremental step toward the possible, no matter how small, then I think all kinds of good things can happen.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544898023046990236.post-30451113376072439402009-09-26T08:25:00.001-04:002009-09-26T08:25:10.582-04:00Warren Consolidated Schools (Windspire Project) / Macomb, Math, Science & Technology Center (MMSTC-Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony 9-23-2009)<script type="text/javascript" src="http://wanimoto.clearspring.com/o/46928cc51133af17/4aba6574c9095b7c/46928cc51133af17/c61c5265/-cpid/6a03ba37f50703bc/-EMH/240/-EMW/432/widget.js"></script>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544898023046990236.post-4861178283619592932009-08-30T17:58:00.002-04:002009-08-30T19:11:15.117-04:00Harsens Island Schoolhouse Grille (Did Someone Mention a SCHOOLHOUSE & GREAT FOOD)<script type="text/javascript" src="http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/46928cc51133af17/4a9b067450bc8284/46928cc51133af17/3221d5c8/-cpid/dcf2ad1ec070d5fe/-/-/-EMH/240/-EMW/432/widget.js"></script><br />
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