My LeadershipWR class had its first community learning day last week. The theme was poverty. I think many people in the class had a lot to learn and I think they did. I thought I knew things pretty well, but I gained from the experience too.
Paul picked me up at about quarter after seven. It had rained in the night and the wind blew water down off the leaves in the trees. Most of our day would be at the Cambridge Self-Help FoodBank so I had packed a non-perishable food item to donate. We got caught in traffic on the freeway, but made it into Galt okay and parked on Ainslie around the corner from the CSHFoodBank.
Near the beginning we had group discussion over our assignments. We were to use our “leadership lens” — a term that came from our retreat in September — to observe poverty in our community and express what we saw. It seems everyone had taken notes and written their thoughts down. I had made a drawing and written a poem and was the only one, at least in my group, to do so.