Yes! (makes a little fist) Second time I got mentioned in Maha’s blog!

I feel like maybe I need to apologize about the death metaphor or start issuing disclaimers in my tweets and blog posts about it. I want to say I’m really sorry if it seems morbid or twisted. I know it is a touchy subject that many people do not like to talk about. Please know that I’m not taking it lightly. It just seems like the perfect metaphor to use for endings when inside of a metaphor for something that is alive. Not all things die of natural causes – biological immortality is a real thing and something everyone should think about when they eat lobster – but everything that lives eventually dies.

As Dave issues us the challenge to look at what it means to have/be a teacher… and what it means to have a course… with a specific end date… I start thinking of death. But when I think about the prospect of the students continuing the class and taking it off on their own I think of immortality… but when I think about the differences between what was #rhizo14 and what is now #rhizo15 I can’t help but think about lobsters.