This work is a dance that sculpts language to illustrate pedagogical relationship between people and place/Land. The threads of the dance are woven throughout, with the sharing of the personal, through excerpts of poetry, to open up generative dialogical spaces.
This article is the result of independent research through a university on the West Coast of Canada. It weaves together poststructural interpretations and a hermeneutic phenomenological recounting of the experience of inquiring about angels with young children.
Do you have a coming out story? A time when you have declared difference from your family, peer group or community? A moment when you have risked not belonging because part of you was screaming that you just could not stay quiet for one more second? Becoming our true selves is a perpetual coming out journey, and there can be gut-punching moments of revealing ourselves that shift the course of our lives forever.