4/5/14 RMB Goodall Caring
Dear Rita Mae Brown,
A friend’s Facebook post reminds me that 4/3/14
was Jane Goodall’s 80th birthday. Sweet. That prompted me, of
course, to look her up and I read about the controversy she faced for naming the
animals she researched. Apparently numbering them is the acceptable scientific
methodology. Names sound logical and more fun to me. What I also found interesting
is the uproar it causes when we do things differently.
This all took place on a day when I have been
dealing with my own research of sorts, trying to decipher three contrary boys,
contributing my bit as auntie to their development as productive members of
society. Each have unique skills, yet continuously compare themselves to one
another, rather than learning from, or better yet, admiring each other's
abilities. Each tests limits, including dips into their own dark sides, as I search
out ways to teach them of the light that shines inside of them and in the world
we share.
What did I learn from Jane? That an important
factor of any research is caring for your subjects. Beyond what we learn or
teach, perhaps it is the caring that holds the greatest impact of all in our
progress towards bettering our universe.
Perhaps,
Loraine
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