LIFETREKS: Some thoughts about lifelong learning

	Some journeys ar
	e trivial and ta
	ke only daze to
	komplete - you kan
	pay for thum bi kredit
	und reserve em eazily

	Other journeys ar
	e different
	and haf no fizzed
	itineraries - no
	advanced bukking
	is pussible und
	nod all dangers
	kan be forezeen

	The voyage of dis
	kovery is the only
	real excursion we take

	Keep venturing forward -
	thru each step a
	wake!


Lis:    At the risk of seeming stupid, let me ask this question: how do we know when our voyage is over?

Lex:   (playfully) At the risk of seeming obtuse, let me offer an oblique reply: 
        when we find ourselves where we began.

Linda: (impatiently) What's the point of this poem? And why are we having this conversation?

Ron:   I'm not sure - I'm just repeating the lines that have been given to me.

Lex:   (enjoying the irony) Indeed. Isn't that what most of us do?

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from _Last Poems: Lost Poems_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: A playful conversation and semblance of a poem about knowledge, discovery, and information.
KEYWORDS: lifelong learning, learner orientations, continuing education, discovery-as-a-voyage

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - )
Begun: 1980 in Port Angeles, WA, USA  ✠ Finished: 2022 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}}  

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