Not sure what to call this blog?

My lack of creativity is already apparent given that non-inspiring title but I have a hodge-podge of stuff to write about today.
I have been enlightened...no warm glowing lights or white angelic vision yet, but I have reached a new area of thought. (I won't say level...it's not that profound.) After reading Darce's blog re: Dreams and having the ultimate one, I too, realised that I have no ultimate all towarding dream that was challenging me from one place to the next. I know I want to be happily married, with a loving family who talk to each other and live financially free...and so I start to question why I'm still teaching...$$$:( But I think that my current dream is to start opening up dialogues with people that extends them. An awkward dream and not something I can do alone. It stems from SB's comments about conversational classrooms, collaboration and professional dialogues and from my blogging, chatting with staff in my staffroom, chatting with teachers as we lock the doors together, walking to my car with another teacher and chatting, talking with teacher friends and family outside school and generally talking with students and opening dialogues with them about how they interact with their society etc.
I must admit, having only recently realised this, that I didn't come from a talkative family. My family communicate on a relatively superficial level. Eg: If I say something they either agree, or ignore me if they disagree. So I was never really challenged in my comments etc. This meant that to a degree I could make any comments I liked and would never end up in a roaring debate about it. Then I met D's family and they are the exact opposite. Every tiny detail of every tiny thing gets discussed, debated, debriefed, discussed, debated and then reconsidered! Rather than watching a DVD or TV when together, they sit around the fire and drink green tea talking politics and religion and all those nasty things that just end in debates and differing opinions. Even talking about which petrol we fill our cars with is challenged and debated! I am now becoming associated with professionals/colleagues who think along similar lines. BIL and SB for example love to talk things over and question and prompt and take a conversation to a deeper place, allowing for critical and reflective thinking.
Now I am seeing the merits of doing this. The age old saying that a problem shared is a problem halved is so true. Or if not halved, multiplied for the better. I'm no longer having just linear and closed conversation, but multi-faceted (starting to sound like a L'Oreal advertisement!), convuluted, multi-layered conversations. I am getting more out of my students, myself and my interactions with others.

And this makes me happy.

Now to take SB's conversational classroom idea one step further....

Bye for now,
M x