Musings..
…9 days to go, and never has the world been in sharper relief. It is so hard to leave and yet I know it’s the right decision. It’s time to let others take the reins and move in new directions–and my own sense of wanderlust has kicked in. I need to explore the rest that the world has to offer in the time I have left; to grow and change in ways that I don’t yet know. I know that I will not leave education, or educational technology, behind. It is too much a part of me. The first step, however, will be to commit to posting here regularly….and certainly a lot of postings in the upcoming days.
Wednesday morning, however, all that I am leaving hit very hard; an amazing group of people who’s dedication and inventiveness, honesty and willingness to challenge the status quo will be much missed. These are my friends who I care very deeply about. I can only hope that they know how difficult a decision this was. On some level I feel as if I am abandoning people I care very much about as they enter a challenging time; an opposite view, however, is that, no longer tied to the strings of our OLSS, I will be free to provide them with a much broader range of support.
Over the years I have learned a lot about change processes…it’s still fascinating to reflect on those processes as you go through them yourself and to attempt to view them with almost a clinical eye (but it doesn’t make it easier). I am so lucky, however, to be able to say that I am choosing my path and leaving while I LOVE my job. I can put it no better than Robert Frost:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both…