I’m so excited…I have just received this amazing review of Getting Messy from best-selling author Jennifer Louden! “Getting Messy is one of my very favorite books about teaching. Nobody else outlines what teaching is really like and how to approach is soulfully like Kim does. I created an entire course before I read this [ Read more … ]
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Getting Messy at East West Books, Mountain View, CA Friday June 1st 7:30 pm!
Hi All, I’m planning to bring my guitar and encourage loud, boisterous singing at this upcoming event this Friday evening, at East West Bookstore in Mountain View. At my last book event, an elderly lady kept asking me when we were going to get “messy.” She helped validate what I was feeling–a “traditional” book talk [ Read more … ]
The source of the imagination (what makes us uniquely human) is an unconscious metaphoric process
…and another reason to attend my upcoming workshop on metaphor at Book Passage. http://bookpassage.com/event/class-kim-hermanson-metaphor-everyday-life
God is unknowable. All we have is metaphor.
The same could be said for knowing anything of any depth or complexity … our universe, each other, or how to navigate through a turbulent situation. The metaphors that we hold are what enable us to construct meaning and find our way. Metaphor is much more than a tool of language–it’s how we make sense [ Read more … ]
Images have a very quiet voice
For a long time, the various parts of me have felt separate: I’m both an academic and a creative. I am passionate about teaching and learning, as well as creativity and the arts. As I’ve journeyed on my path, I’ve realized that it’s my mission to bridge the academic and creative. Since images lie at [ Read more … ]