8-26-08
Dear Sarah:
Although presently I am immersed in my dissertation study in Camden, New
Jersey for the next school year 08-09, I think your idea about organizing
something around "web-based technology in enabling practitioner research" is
super. I wish I could help out. What timeline were you thinking for such a
venture?
Meanwhile, concerning the bad experiences you have had in research, thank
you for sharing. What came to mind when I read your situation was "The
Politics of Research" (Ann, Kaplan, Levine & Levine, 1997). I have found
sometimes conflict arises in our lives so we can grow more as individuals or so
others surrounding us can grow. You may have read M. Williamson's (1996)
poem "Our Greatest Fear" often said to have been quoted in a speech by
Nelson Mandela. Sometimes our fear of adequacy is greater than our fear of
inadequacy.
Keep the faith.....
Sincerely,
Cynthia Cozette Lee
"It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others."
Poem by Marianne Williamson (1996)
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