Interesting post this could be! I mean we have no specific question as such, it can be more of a reflection or my learning journey through ONL211. I read a few posts by peers (I am supposed to) and realised that most take this reflection pretty seriously listing positive and negatives. The style vary but a reflection, it seems, must include an account of the good and bad aspects of ONL211. I am sure, some more introspective peers will reflect on their attitudes and growth as learners themselves. Maybe, those posts will be more insightful or interesting … I didn’t look hard enough to find any like this. So… what shall this post be about?! I have no idea! What occupies my mind a bit more than reflecting on ONL211 is the eminent death of my dad at a local hospital in my hometown in Greece. I feel a boredom too … like not wanting to do anything. I wonder if this has anything to do with the anticipation of bad news … bad for who? … my dad has been deaf and blind for the last years, more recently “hosted” by an elderly people’s clinic where staff’s sloppiness managed to turn him into a bedridden very manageable commodity. I am upset that he has spent the last year of this kind of life cut off from his one and only son still living close by who would have visited him every morning! No! on top of everything else a pandemic had to come along! That’s life! Do I feel sad my 90+ years old dad may die very soon? Yes, because he should be let go much earlier, voluntarily and when he had still his mental capacities. Now he lies unconscious (the doctor says) in a hospital bed who … what? what can they do? what do they want to do? stabilize his situation they tell us. So, yes! That’s life! In the last PBL discussion we had yesterday morning, for the first time it came to my mind that IF ONL is going to have a real impact, it will be when it becomes a living experience, not just a pigeonholed course on online learning. I asked about it during our discussion but it seemed and still seems like a veeeery BIG question. Big and abstract, deep and pointless … to some I am sure. BUT for me the greatest thing that ONL gave me opportunities to realize is that really transformative processes cannot just be transformative in one little part of life. Most of the issues we discussed, heard about, mentioned or thought through this process called ONL have been to my mind ways of living life, perceiving the world around us, and ourselves as part of that world. Of course, we heard and used a few digital tools and practised some groupwork methods, and were asked to reflect profusely, … but overall the essence of ONL (possibly to the unawareness of some of its organizers) is in those ways of thinking about connecting to each other… to learn, to love, to use, to share, to forget, … to connect with our outside(s) and our inside(s). Did my dad have ever had the chance to connect like this? Was he supposed to? I never asked him … he never showed me! He must have connected with the land he loved to cultivate but where did that connection took him I don’t know. Are you supposed to connect? Do you want to? In ONL one can try it. Thanks!