A Teaching Life

Life Force

Aug 22, 2025 by Frank Thoms

Sometimes I feel that this late stage of my life that my days as “a vitality, a life force” is past. For more than fifty years, I was active as a teacher and consultant and in publishing six books, but now those days are receding. But today her words have stuck. I will continue to be in the fray. “A quickening that is translated through [me] into action.” I hope you will join me.

Reread her words. Envision what happens when imagining yourself as a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, aware that you are that special person who keeps the channel open. The only one of you in all time, a difference maker especially in these troubled times.

Imagine when teachers see that light. What would education become?

When we take Graham’s wisdom to heart, we understand that we are the person we are meant to be, a life force in our family, in our community, in our country. We can be no less.

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