Change the world

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
--Nelson Mandela

Transformative Relationships

Relationships built on reciprocity, equality, and valuation transform and enrich. Transactional relationships treat people -- and the relationship itself -- as a tool for self-enrichment at the cost of being taken from. Seeing a relationship as a trade-off with costs and balance sheets is reductive and dehumanizing. Participating in partnership opens transformative opportunities for everyone involved.

[T]here are two kinds of relationships, the transactional relationships and the transformational relationships. One is out of necessity and the other is out of desire. One has a clear demand and request with an expectation of return and the other is open-ended with no expectation other than to give. One of the key catalyzers to my personal growth and development has been to limit my transactional relationships and add depth and breath to my transformational relationships.

The First Football Game of 2009-2010 Season

Ethan and Graeme and I had a wonderful time at the first ball game. Just at the end, he decided to show his brother the *awesome* vantage point he had found and ended up clothselining himself into a cervical collar and an ambulance ride. He was fine, and quite lucky. And all the high school cheerleaders came to make sure he was ok.

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