{"id":458,"date":"2014-10-01T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mayagonzalez.com\/blog\/?p=458"},"modified":"2014-10-01T18:06:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T18:06:11","slug":"i-love-my-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mayagonzalez.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/i-love-my-job\/","title":{"rendered":"i love my job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimbio.com\/pictures\/_uO6y6stbUe\/44th+NAACP+Image+Awards+Arrivals\/Iw8Vi7YNnL9\/Kwame+Alexander\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-459 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayagonzalez.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/kwame-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"kwame\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mayagonzalez.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/kwame-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.mayagonzalez.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/kwame.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>i just got done interviewing kwame alexander for my<a href=\"http:\/\/schoolofthefreemind.com\/classes\/heart-of-it.php#details\" target=\"_blank\"> heart of it\/creating children&#8217;s books that matter<\/a>. i CANNOT adequately express how much i love my job!<\/p>\n<p>one of many beautiful take aways was what kwame called &#8216;dancing naked on the floor.&#8217; it is the title of one of his poems and a line from a <a href=\"http:\/\/nikki-giovanni.com\/bio.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">nikki giovanni<\/a> poem (who i&#8217;m also highlighting, although not interviewing for the course).<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;dancing naked&#8217; speaks to being authentic first within yourself. kwame shares that when you establish an ownership of your own voice and it&#8217;s belonging in the world, you create the possibility of that for others. so that\u00a0 when he allows others to witness him metaphorically &#8216;dancing naked on the floor&#8217; either through his books or his teaching in person, he establishes a trust with his readers and his students that it&#8217;s ok to be exactly who you are inside and outside.\u00a0 this creates the perfect ground for VOICE to come through&#8230;and be heard.<\/p>\n<p>rock on kwame!!! he&#8217;s got 8 books coming out in the next 4 years with NO END in sight! kwame&#8217;s got VOICE. he&#8217;s got much that we can learn from and he&#8217;s out there teaching it! thank you again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookinaday.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">kwame<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i just got done interviewing kwame alexander for my heart of it\/creating children&#8217;s books that matter. i CANNOT adequately express how much i love my job! one of many beautiful take aways was what kwame called &#8216;dancing naked on the floor.&#8217; it is the title of one of his poems &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,6,10],"tags":[113,122,41,117,121,120,123],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.12 - 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