It's been a lovely late winter week, full of meetings, campfires, and good, steady progress. Here are the highlights: Yesterday, Seminar happened in the woods and it was unseasonably warm. We made a fire anyway but no hot chocolate, as previously planned. Plans have to change sometimes. It’s a good week to remember the importance of slowing down, reflection, the simplicity of centering in nature, and the progress that can happen when we notice. Here is a poem on the theme: Beside the Point The sky has never won a prize. The clouds have no careers. The rainbow doesn't say my work, thank goodness. The rock in the creek's not so productive. The mud on the bank's not too pragmatic. There's nothing useful in the noise the wind makes in the leaves. Buck up now, my fellow superfluity, and let's both be of that worthless ilk, self-indulgent as shooting stars, self-absorbed as sunsets. Who cares if we're inconsequential? At least we can revel, two good-for-nothings, in our irrelevance; at least come and make no difference with me. - Stephen Cushman Next Monday, students will present another set of deliverables, showing some progress that has happened over the last three weeks. Long research essays are happening: the history and problems of policing in America, flat earth theory, and the impacts of growing up in a rural community. Some shorter essays are happening too, like celebrating and attacking the Meditations of Descartes. Paintings and drawings and silicon molds and novels are being written and reproductive justice is being understood and films are being made. In the next two weeks, Cole is going to make a fire whirl. We’re being productive. We’re learning to Take Care of Business: take care of yourself. take care of your work. take care of each other. Repeat. Two Pilot alumni are acting as mentors this year and it’s lovely. Izzy and Noah were both in Pilot for three years from 10-12th grade and now they are four and five years out of high school and college. It is so amazing to experience this program over time in these ways. The richness is expansive and we just keep growing. The sun again is feeling warm. Soon the leaves will be waking up. What parts of ourselves do we need to wake up this spring? Are we leaving room for growth? Enjoy the melting snow and the running sap. Be well, amyK
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