Open your eyes
Plant two feet on the ground
In all that you do
Learning is found
Limitless pathways
Infinitely evolving
A challenge that calls you
With a need for resolving
Experience awaits you
At the edge of a choice
Let the heart guide you
Follow its voice
To learn is to “be”
Not confined to one space
Beyond a single classroom
Always finding a place
To learn is to “be”
Consistently deployed
Finding yourself
In the things you enjoy
A seeker
A dreamer
An artist
A keeper
A grounded purpose
Promotes learning that’s deeper
Driven by choice
No universal prescription
Better defined
With individual description
Assessing yourself
It does not have to match
A prepackaged benchmark
That you did not hatch
Dulled down when siloed
Or attached to control
Reborn in acceptance
Of what naturally pulls
To learn is to “be”
Fluid and reflective
Iterating and refining
Based on new perspective
Redefined rituals
A boundary in question
Gifts found in failure
Although not the intention
Follow the threads
To the emotions inside
The body may answer
Why a feeling resides
There’s a beauty in the pain
Of learning something new
Mending and restoring
When reparations are due
An infant
A child
A sibling
A friend
A parent
A neighbor
An identity blend
Zooming out to collaborate
Gaining insight from others
Community inspired
New systems discovered
Converging constellations
Shaped by the stars
Lessons of the past
Tell stories of who we are
Ahead and behind
All around and within you
At the light of each morning
Our learning continues
To learn is to “be”
Its an offer of connection
Humans evolving
And adjusting directions
A critical hope
Depositing Donations
To build better worlds
For future generations
Zoom back in to examine
The parts that you play
“How have you changed?”
“Who are you today?”
To learn is to “be”
A shared truth to uncover
Humanize learning
To find ourselves in one another.
