This morning, at Year of Reading, Mary Lee posted the thinking behind her Common Uncommon Month of Poetry. In that post, she shared her four rules for collaboration:
- Share ideas
- Create with joy
- Work together
- Don't destroy
"ABC's of Collaboration"
Avail yourself of every opportunity
Because you never know when
Coming together could lead to creation.
Delight in differences
Engage
in each other’s possibilities
Feel free to make mistakes.
Give up the need to be right and
Humble yourself to
others’
Intelligence and imagination.
Just be ready for surprises.
Know that there will be conflict
Laugh a lot.
Make miracles together
Never quit listening asking sharing believing
Open your eyes and your heart
Plan a little, play more.
Quiet the inner doubter
Resist the need to be right
Stay open to surprises
Take time to
laugh.
Up the ante.
View the world through new eyes
Wonder at what
might be possible
Excite yourself
about others’ ideas
You never know when yourzeal might reap rewards.
3 comments:
It most certainly IS a poem! WOW! This is going to be made into a poster for my classroom -- our motto for the month!!
And I was thinking this morning while I walked about what happens when a person says they'll write a poem a day...GOES PUBLIC with the proclamation that they'll write a poem a day. 1. Some are not so great. 2. Some are brilliant. And it's those ones that are brilliant that feed your fire and keep you going. It's a little like chocolate, but with no calories!!
So perfectly composed, Carol...and, like Mary Lee , I am going to make this into a poster for my classroom...thank you!
I think I'm just going to echo Mary Lee-it is a poem for sure, & beautifully said too, Carol! I think your poet-ness has been hiding under a bushel, or what ever that saying is! Remember William Stafford (when asked how he wrote a poem every day) said that he "lowered his standards"). I don't think you're doing that at all, but just in support, a poem a day is huge! Love that you're doing!
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