So…I have been sooooo bad about blogging lately. Lots of really bad reasons I won’t share or make up, so let’s begin again.
Too often I think, “Why in the world would anybody care about what I feel like pontificating about?” Heck my own wife doesn’t read this blog. And as for my kids (16, 15, 13, 12), I am happy they still like me. Though I am entering into a flash mob phase of ‘my parents are dorks’, so why set myself up for them telling me I have business all wrong. Any ways…I do have about a dozen topics I am going to write about over next few weeks. Then tonight, while sitting our rental in Culver, IN, after watching our 15 year old play lacrosse for his Boarding School (lots to share there…oy vey) I received this email from one of our Associate/Authors, Tom Hierck. Really nice guy who is writing a book for Solution Tree with one of my favorite human beings, Ken Williams. Ken and I share a thing for good watches and classic Lincolns. I’ll write about my ’65 convertible some day soon. Their book is going to be great, but I promise not to kick into sales mode here.
“Why” is a big deal to me. But you knew that. Here is another indicator as to why Why is a big deal in schools, and really in all that we are or want to be. Thanks Tom and Ken.
Tom Hierck Ken Williams
Hey Pal,
Love the bit from Tom and Ken — it’s fantastic. Had dinner with Tom when he was in Raleigh a few weeks ago.
Wanted to push against something you wrote, though. You said:
Too often I think, “Why in the world would anybody care about what I feel like pontificating about?”
Let me ask you a reflection question: Has blogging made YOU more reflective? Do you catch yourself thinking about how to put your core values and beliefs into words more often now than before? Has the challenge of putting your ideas into words forced you to refine and polish your core beliefs?
Because if so, then it doesn’t matter whether anyone EVER reads what you write. You win either way.
I don’t blog for anyone other than me. I’m not pontificating, I’m reflecting and thinking and polishing what I know — about me, about teaching, about education. I’m just letting other people see that reflection in action.
GLAD to see you in this space — and proud of your persistence! I would have never guessed that you’d have written as much as you have in the last year.
#goodwork
Bill