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Relegated Revelations

25 Saturday Apr 2015

Posted by Patrick S. De Walt, MBA, PhD in Poetry

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Art, expression, Freewrite, Identity, Performance, poetry, self exploration, Streams of consciousness

We start our journeys
One thought
One step
One instilled value
At a time
We are shaped by our environment(s)
Both the visible and invisible elements
Within each aspect we find more of ourselves
Or at least the self that we have been taught to see
Relegated revelations
The byproducts of embracing life’s journey
Questioning each step and phase as it happens
Recognizing the harsh reality that much of what we have come to embrace as truth is less accurate than what we may have originally perceived
as we experience our very own
Relegated revelations

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19 Wednesday Nov 2014

Posted by Patrick S. De Walt, MBA, PhD in Poetry

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Art, Culture, expression, free form, free write, Identity, Motivation, Performance, poetry, Reflective Practice, self exploration, social critique

The beauty of discovery is one that places us in varied states
Some of us deny ourselves the opportunity that is presented to us
Others embrace it for all that the experience offers
Why do we find ourselves limiting our opportunities between two contrasting views
that ultimately limit all of our possibilities?
We “either or” ourselves into complacency
Instead of “both anding” ourselves into our greatness
The likelihood of us ever achieving this feat is not found in
meritocratic principles that perpetuate us failing to achieve our best selves
Instead, we stunt our growth based on the perceptions of others who often are unaware of our hidden gems
Why have we become accustomed to settling for less than what we deserve?
Or even more so, why do we stunt our own promise by following the trumpeting of someone else’s tune?
We are fragile in this way?
Or better yet
malleable to the whims of those whose thoughts we’ve come to privilege
over our very own?
Don’t take the words on this page as absolute
for if you did
then you are perpetuating the process in which this was written to question
You have to reconnect with your intellect
Your inner curiosity
Your inner self
You have to be the driver of the knowledge that you have taken in within a critical framework
No longer accepting the quo that is so often the status
found within
The conversations that we have
The communities in which we live
The dreams that we allow to be so easily squandered
You can no longer just be the best you that you currently know
You have be best you
that you have YET to fully comprehend…

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Random Thoughts of WE

23 Saturday Aug 2014

Posted by Patrick S. De Walt, MBA, PhD in Poetry

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Art, communities, conflict, Culture, deconstruct, expression, interpretive expression, Performance, poetry, Politics & Education, Popular Culture, Public Education, Purpose, self exploration, social awareness, social critique, Social Media, Social norms, society, spontaneous thoughts, Streams of consciousness, struggle, voice

Figments of our imaginations
offer us solace in times
when reality is not in line with our desires
Trepidation ensues
Leaving remnants of stains
Emotional residue
Our own carbon footprints
Positioned to trample
On…
The bludgeoning of chance
Yes, you’re familiar
And if not
You may need to return to the sands
Those that have scorched many who have dared to cross them
Symbolic
Like the Sphinx whose been offended by history
Yet, still finds a way to remain
Situated in nothingness is not what Jean-Paul Sartre would recommend
If you were reading philosophy
Existential Terrain is challenging to navigate
Not only for those who understand the symbolism
But also for those who are unconscious
Unconscious of what emanates from within or towards them
For foreign objects are treated worse here than along
the southern borders
No Minutemen here
And if they are
They lack documentation
How ironic is it that those who seek clearance
have no ability to grant it for themselves?
Sounds like the every day struggles of public school teachers who are held to the whims of uncertified critics
Or the misguided influence of currency from the ever present lobby
Lobbying to keep children from our classrooms because we need their papers
Unless their elders are mowing our lawns, picking our fruit, preparing our food  from beyond our view, or building/cleaning our fancy houses in the early morning or long nights
The beauty of modern capitalism
Where labor is cheap or damn near free
And systematic practices of misdirection remain a key tactic
Go Google it while you’re at it
According to analytics they already know what you’re thinking…
You’ve be trained and dare not to question it because then you’re not Patriotic
And you know what that act can suggest if you’re not careful?
Guantanamo is not as distant as one may think
Just like on certain sides of the tracks when the sun goes down
And you will clearly see
Or will you?
It depends.
On what channel you’re turned to
ESPN won’t carry this unless you purchase the right subscription
Walter ain’t releasing people these days
They work them hours so that when you visit you’re entertained
Yep, I was there too.
And thoroughly enjoyed myself
Can’t be claiming to be Che or El-Hajj
Too many flaws in my game
Oops, I don’t play those
Unless it’s the game of life that I have to win
Because if I lose
All of those who lost their lives or sacrificed their freedoms
will have lost even more on their incalculable investment
Not in me
But in the future that encases me
Encases you
Encases the little ones that we seek to have
Seek to protect
Seek to love
The little ones who are still residing inside of
Each of us
So protect your little ones
Therefore you’re protecting yourself
The Big Bad Wolf loves more than Little Red Riding Hood
Or was that a Little Red Corvette?
Of course not, that is just a reference to date myself
My experience in the game
Ooops, I don’t play those
Yet, everyone around me does
Matrices are around me as if I were Ne-Yo
I didn’t misspell it, I did that on purpose
Since memories are short I tried to be current
Doesn’t have to be the truth
It just has to be something that you wish to believe
Like on Gentlemen Fox
With his Friends
This is what America does
so therefore that includes Ameri-cans
Yet most Ameris-can’t
Like read above 3rd grade level or read text that isn’t bullet pointed.
Yep, we’re talking comprehension
When did that happen?
Did you notice?
Or did you care?
Never mind, it ain’t that important
All I really need is 140 characters or some emoticons and I’m good
But am I really?
I don’t know but if I turn to the right channel I don’t have to think about it
You know that I could be making all of this up, but would you go research it to find out?
Ooops, that means you’re back to Google.
Hopefully Google Scholar at least.
Just don’t pay too much attention to my profile
I didn’t follow the rules
I like long sentences
Complex if possible
Don’t get mad if you find a few split infinitives in the mix
Yet, I wish it was an Infiniti G
I’ll let you pick the model as long as it’s a convertible and hopefully black
I grew up loving Knight Rider
But not the new KITT
Nor Kit Kat
Don’t need no breaks but if you did
Make sure it included Nell
You know her last name?
If not, go and…
That blank was filled before I even finished typing the line
How easy certain things are when you try
(Ooops, I did it again like Britney)…
Or is it when you are conditioned?
Air Conditioned like in Texas around August.
Yep, I’m being reminded of that right about now
I have mine on 76
And no, it didn’t declare me anything
There weren’t a whole bunch of men to sign it in protest
Ooops, don’t use that word too loudly
Especially in that place with an M-O.
But then again, be careful in N-Y or D-C or F-L-O-R-I-D-A
LeBron wasn’t the only one who left
I did too.
Yet, not soon enough
I got the scars to prove it
But I’m relearning a few old letters like U-G-K
Some readers got that because you like them underground kings
“and I keep yelling it but ya’ll don’t hear me though”
Like it was “Who ya rootin’ for?”
Have fun with that
Until Homecoming…

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Living in the Discomfort: A Journey of Self Discovery and Actualization

08 Sunday Sep 2013

Posted by Patrick S. De Walt, MBA, PhD in Live In The Discomfort

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Through the advice of one of my longtime mentors, I was encouraged to read a short yet profound book, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick). Maybe he sensed something stirring inside of me that I had yet to really recognize for myself. In this book, author Seth Godin wrote and referred to this place that I was finding myself a very straightforward way. I won’t tell you any more than that because I think that anyone who is at a point where they are not sure if they want to persevere or quit (whatever that “it” may be) should read this and make their own decision(s). After reading this book, I have bought it for some and encouraged others I have taught, who I sensed had approached a similar point in their journeys, to read and/or buy it. Yet, I, as time has passed, found that “The Dip” was incomplete in capturing and aiding me in my own evolutionary journey.

As I now sit here in a public space, I find myself reflecting on the journey that I’m currently on. It is full of wonderful experiences that I would not trade for the world, yet it also has its moments in which I quite honestly wonder why I’m here and doing what I do beyond that of an educator. As this new entry unfolds, I will share those moments when I find myself in the very place that I seek to convey through these posts, a place of discomfort. How did I get to the point where I would openly and honestly share moments of vulnerability with those who elect to read? I honestly don’t know. I would like to say it came with my evolution as a budding scholar/intellectual/educator/poet and all of the other descriptors I’ve collected over my lifetime. I would like to believe it was when I began teaching as a faculty member at my current university, the University of South Florida. Or could it have been when personal decisions caused me to rethink my vision of who and what I wished to be holistically. Over the course of these entries, perhaps these questions will be answered for myself and maybe someone else who finds her/himself in a comparable place.

So with all of this being said, I welcome you to “Living in the Discomfort: A Journey of Self Discovery and Actualization”. In this process, let’s see where this journey will take us. I encourage others to comment and share their moments of “living in the discomfort” as well. The ball is now in your court until my next entry…

PSDW~

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