Learning to Live

The BDL Blog is a place to play with ideas. It’s where I share my ideas about how much I believe, not only in education and learning, but in all of the things all of us can accomplish through learning when we are able to move forward inspired, encouraged, and engaged.

To contextualize things a bit, I am a Canadian of Italian descent living in Japan, in a western suburb of Tokyo called Chofu City. Japan is a great place to live, and to learn! My hope is that I  might give you plenty of reasons to consider visiting yourselves!  My intention, however, is to take you to wherever I can find amazing ideas to ponder and opportunities to consider.

The World is Our Classroom!

In the most general sense, a classroom is wherever you may be engaged in the discovery and application of knowledge and ideas that are new to you. It may be a room with desk, chairs, and all of the other paraphenalia and people within it… a preconception we all likely share. However, a classroom can be many things: a park bench on a rainy evening, the back of a coffee shop, the top of an outcropping of ancient volcanic rock beside a rocky beach, a subway station in Paris (as Ezra discovered), a boat, an airplane, a dinner table, a shack beside the home built by our grandfathers where they sharpened their tools they used to accomplish everything we took for granted.

Good question. We have a lot to talk about regarding that gift that influences our lives every second of every day, from cradle to grave: The ability to learn.  We want to encourage discovery. We believe that the experience of living gains value and meaning only when guided by the light of that one opportunity: to learn, to understand, to contribute, to improve ourselves, and to benefit the communities within which we live.

Shall we begin?

If you’d like to get to know more about BDL, click on the email link below and send me a note! I’d be happy to tell you more about myself and of all of the things I have a tendency to consider!