Noticing Matters
a place of pause and consideration for matters of noticing
essays by Melissa A. Butler
What began with essays of how and why noticing matters (in value and relevance) has grown into an exploration of expanded notions of matter. No separation of physical-spiritual, real-imagined, us-them, memory-dream. This moment calls us into new ways of sculpting with matters we are learning to see and feel and be again.
It’s all matter. And it all matters.
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To find my essays for the Fred Rogers Institute on teaching and learning connected to Fred Rogers and Mister Rogers Neighborhood…
your curriculum
Everything is currency—condition of flowing—in and out, give and receive.
Everything flows—the course of our days, the currents of our exchanges, the breath of our presence, the paths of our learning, the discernment of our listening.
How we attune to this is our curriculum.
How resonant is the curriculum you’re living now?
Do your days unfold with the breath of your surroundings? Or does it feel like you’re pushing against a current inviting you somewhere else?
What about the children in your life? Does the curriculum of their learning let them listen to themselves? Does it flow with their light and joy and dreams?
Our curriculum lives inside us.
