Just about a generation ago, literally, I was wandering around the text driven rooms of the ACSU BBS. It felt so out there . . . and I felt so . . . on the edge of the bubble. Like today, the wandering and exploring was with the high ground of learning as the peak in the clouds.
The journey continues . . . the landscape changes, some partners have fallen off, some stayed, and others have joined . . . and the high ground remains the high ground.
The journey also has become tied to a lovely story about the walkabout in Australia. The story of the Stone Circle. When the adolescent aboriginal boy heads out on his walkabout - his vision quest - he is followed (unknowingly) by elders of his clan. At night, the youth sets a stone circle around himself, meant to metaphorically be protection from "what is out in the darkness". Out in the darkness, the elders have formed a true protective circle around the youth. They also make a sound that the boy has been taught means "death is near".
The elders know that the young man needs to complete his vision quest on his own, and are creating the safe (metaphysical) space in which he can endure his struggle.
The Stone Circle.
All we do . . . is to create the Stone Circle . . . for our students and colleagues. And perhaps they can help create the Stone Circle for us.
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