Direction: Coming from and Going To* This part three of three. Parts One and Two deal with what happened last year. Yeah yeah ok...So this post was *meant* to have been completed aaaages ago. For some reason, for the past few years this post is delayed by a few months. I've been trying to 'get it right' and chooseContinue reading "The Beginning is the End is the Beginning 3 of 3: 2012: Clearing and Clarity"
JDS Insights: March 2012
Hard Sell This post is not *trying* to sell you anything. But I do acknowledge the self-indulgent nature of blogging and my own self-interest. So sometimes I will sell something: a book, an idea, a particular paradigm - whatever. But make no mistake - I am selling it. There are openings for action on myContinue reading "JDS Insights: March 2012"
JDS Insights: February 2012
Perhaps the fact I'm getting round to putting down what February was all about towards the end of March speaks to what a non-month February usually is. If January is post-apocalyptic, then February is the deadly silence that follows the post-apocalyptic trauma. And so it should be as we slowly emerge from Winter and moveContinue reading "JDS Insights: February 2012"
JDS Insights: January 2012
I think January of every year has a post-apocalyptic feel to it. It's as if we're emerging from the remains of something to create something else. The whirlwind of December meant my January felt relatively sedate: back to school; mock exams; marking...and well embracing how mundane life really is. It just feels like a l-o-o-o-o-n-gContinue reading "JDS Insights: January 2012"
The Beginning is the End is the Beginning 2 of 3: 2011
Part Two of the Trilogy... 6. House We moved in 2011. It was stressful and wonderful in equal measure (but probably more wonderful). Our house is now our home and I'm so grateful for all the help we had. Especially from Them and Them. I can't imagine going back to a one-bedroom flat. We've hardly needed/ wantedContinue reading "The Beginning is the End is the Beginning 2 of 3: 2011"
The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning 1 of 3: 2011
Another Year Ends Reality becomes a reflection of reality becoming real...or some such stuff. This time of year enables me to look back and forward at the same time. Last month was particularly reflective for me anyway but the purpose of writing this is to shed the skin of 2011. I've also been doing thisContinue reading "The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning 1 of 3: 2011"
JDS Insights: December 2011
My December threw up a lot.* I hope you get something from reading this (rather long) post. ----- December 3rd, very early in the morning, my Father-in-law passed away. I was there. It was something that was quick and slow at the same time. He'd been pretty ill for a number of years, including beingContinue reading "JDS Insights: December 2011"
JDS Insights: November 2011
Catching up slowly but surely! November had a four memorable areas: 1) school, 2) chocolate and exercise, 3) closure and clarity and 4) alcohol.* ----- 1) School Building on the book I read in October: I had some interesting feedback in November. My Sixth Form Pupils said comments like: "The lessons are much better becauseContinue reading "JDS Insights: November 2011"
JDS Insights: October 2011
I'm aware that it's Christmas Eve...and I'm posting about stuff that happened months ago. But a lot has happened in those months. Re-reading the insights for October and I'm instantly transported to my state of mind back then. The big thing was my birthday. This year on October 3rd I turned 35 years old. AtContinue reading "JDS Insights: October 2011"
JDS Insights: September 2011
It's been a while. September was back to school...for someone like me. Teachers approach the new school year in a variety of ways...but perhaps mostly with trepidation at the impending tiredness, late nights and the deeper appreciation of weekends. Since returning to school and listening to the grapevine I've got the impression that a fewContinue reading "JDS Insights: September 2011"
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