DANCE AT THE STILL POINT

This paper is a handout used to accompany remarks I made at a celebration of the life of my daughter, Katharine H. Baker, who unexpectedly died at age 61. Living her life with passions for reading, teaching, dancing and conversing with nature, “Dance at the still point.” encompasses Katharine’s ultimate message to her students and coaching clients. Her own education with separate degrees in English, British Literature, Communication, Pastoral Counseling and a PhD in Religion, Psychology and Culture nourished her critical thinking and precise verbal, non-verbal, visual and written interactional skills. Having learned herself that lessons are best received and retained through the use of imagination and not just by presenting facts to the rational mind, she made liberal use of quotations, poetry, metaphor, storytelling, fairy tales, myths, and multimedia to generate learning.