New beginnings can be scary. I remember so many first days of school, both as a student and particularly as an educator, and how the unknown factors of what would eventually come together to be a class, was incredibly frightening. As a teacher, you are the facilitator, the one who makes things go smoothly, and hopefully the one who creates an encouraging, open, safe learning environment. I also remember the new beginnings of life in my belly. Being pregnant is such an awesome experience there are hardly words to describe it. Eventually though, the experience grows old and you can’t wait to give birth. After the excruciating pain of a natural child birth, you are presented with a most precious gift, a new human being and almost right away this experience, at least for me, generates intense feelings of love. I had this immense pleasure four times and find that within my children’s lives there are constant new beginnings that make their lives a...
The virtual studio of author and artist Stephanie Rose Bird brings together artistic process and reflection with the literary arts, in a manner that is designed to be instructive and inspirational.