Drawing Forth is
dedicated to support
the best of what it means to educate. The Latin root of
the word educate
(edu-care) means to draw forth. It
is my belief that the essence of education is a process of drawing
forth the best in each human being.
My
name is Steven Fletcher and this site hosts my blog along with links to
some sites I support, host or just plain love!
No
human can ever adequately describe another or even describe one's own
self. We
are all a lot worse and a lot better than anything that's ever been
said. Never-the-less, here is a sketch of myself.
I was born in a small town in
northern California, the son of a great teacher, Robert Fletcher (a
real educator) and a
mother Frances (Green) Fletcher, who was not just my mother but my
spiritual guide. They both
inspired me in ways that this sketch can't do justice to.
When I was 16
we moved to Palo Alto, California so my father could go to Stanford and
get his PhD. He was 50 years old. After a year at Palo Alto
High
School, I got a great job at Beckman Instruments and attended Foothill
College. I had a few good teachers and one that was a great teacher.
That was Mrs. Connie Mundrick. (If anyone knows where she is please
contact me so I can drop whatever I am doing and go visit her to say
thank you)
After two English courses with Mrs. Mundrick I began to
write poetry continuously. Then came songs, then many
years later short stories. That was in the sixties and there are many
stories that this sketch can not depict. Suffice it to say that after
that experience there was life in Canada, Swaziland, Chuuk, Lesotho,
South Africa and a lot of travel in between.
Along the path of life I was married twice. The first marriage was to Patricia Siemantel
and resulted in two wonderful boys who are now both men (Themba Fletcher and
Thabo Fletcher) ! The
marriage ended and a few years later I married Makhosazana
Lukhele.
Now many years later, I am back in California living near
Yosemite. Also
along the way there was a BA degree in Expressive Arts and an MA on the
use of
stories for healing and growth, plus a number of business and
non-profit enterprises. A couple of anthologies of short
stories
are still in print along with five CD's.
I
love music and I love education
and I love cultures. By cultures I
don't mean the opera and the theater, but the way common folk live
wherever they live - in huts made of mud with smiles on their faces
and their sun-bleached fishing boats. If you're interested there
is more of my philosophical musings on my blog. You're always welcome
here.
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