It's Alive!!!!!

For those of us who are older, that expression can conjure up movie moments that include Frankenstein, or even a mummy.  Things that you would not expect to move and act do, and it can be very frightening for those who see the unexpected get up and walk around.  Especially if it seems that these entities are "out to get you".  Clearly, in a zombie movie, they are, so...better start running, eh?

However, it is spring, and things that have been lying dormant are now waking up, like tree buds and small insects.  I have to admit it was not fun playing catch with my son in the park, the other day, just due to the sheer number of gnats that I think I swallowed.  Extra protein, right?  Blech!

I am thinking about ideas, though, and how we plan for what is happening right now, in the classroom.  Yesterday, Dr. David Kroll came to speak to a large group of our students about Henrietta Lacks, and her still living cells.  This idea was hatched out awhile back, and the behind the scenes work is just now coming to life in many ways.  It's alive in the imagination and thought processes of our students.  Dr. Kroll was most impressed with their presence, as well as at the questions they asked.  This can only happen because this idea was allowed life, and was shared by the team that put it together.  Learning is a living entity, when done correctly.  

So, looking to the future, and making plans for what comes after, is really important.  Your life has a life, for lack of a better way of putting it.  Instead of sitting back, and letting life "happen" to you, take the initiative to make a plan that you can breathe life into, and see what comes from that!  It's important that you take the opportunity to bring your dreams out to share, and pretty soon, you will be able to say "It's Alive!", as well!