{"id":38,"date":"2011-05-06T11:36:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T15:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beginnersheart\/?p=38"},"modified":"2011-05-06T11:37:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T15:37:36","slug":"beginners-heart-and-the-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/2011\/05\/beginners-heart-and-the-army.html","title":{"rendered":"Beginner’s Heart and the Army ~"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So what is <\/em>beginner\u2019s heart? I actually Googled the term. Not many results apply. I came up with it like I do poem titles ~ it seemed like a good idea, and like it would lead me somewhere. It\u2019s how (and often why) I write: where will the writing take me? What will I learn?<\/p>\n

Actually, it\u2019s why I do most things. Certainly teaching, for instance. I teach to learn. I try to change up my class every semester, sometimes a completely new prep. Sometimes a completely new situation, even ~ as when I took over a dead colleague\u2019s class, one begun w\/a very different pedagogical slant than my own.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s the real truth, I guess. I want to know, myself, what beginner\u2019s heart looks like when it\u2019s walking around on the ground, as the Army says. (n.b.: can you put beginner\u2019s heart and the Army in the same sentence?<\/em>) What does beginner\u2019s heart feel like?\u00a0 Can you point to someone you think has it? And what about how to \u2018get\u2019 it? And most important: how will we know it when (and if) we find it\u2026?<\/p>\n

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