Perspective...I hope since reading my last entry you've turned some maps up-side-down, or at least sat under a globe for a while, even quietly in your own mind.
A poem... to change your perspective "If the Earth were only a Few Feet in Diameter"
If the earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating a few feet above a field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it. People would walk around it, marveling at its big pools of water, its little pools and the water flowing between the pools. People would marvel at the bumps on it, and the holes in it, and they would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding it and the water suspended in the gas. The people would marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of the ball, and at the creatures in the water. The people would declare it precious because it was the only one, and they would protect it so that it would not be hurt. The ball would be the greatest wonder known, and people would come to behold it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know beauty and to wonder how it could be. People would love it, and defend it with their lives, because they would somehow know that their lives, their own roundness, could be nothing without it. If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter.
author unknown, printed inside Paul Winter's "Earth" CD
Look at these faces.
Betsy Wilkening of Tuscon, Arizona modeling the moose hands.
Each one is a teacher embarking upon a journey to a pole.
Simone Welch of Washington D.C. keeping her coffee warm?
Their perspectives are changing minute by minute for themselves, their families, their students and YOU. Follow along with one or all of them.
Past PolarTREC teacher Lolly Garay of Houston, Texas backing up Lindsay Knippenberg of St. Clair Shores, Michigan.
See the world through their eyes, their humor, and love.
Tim Martin of Greensboro, North Carolina and Barney Peterson of Everett, Washington just grinning.
Engage with them through www.polartrec.com by asking them questions. I'll be there asking, learning, expanding, and changing my perspective.
Join me as we travel to the poles together!!!!
Gary