Today, at beautiful Nitobe Gardens, I remembered that there was a short essay about 'bridges' written by the famous UBC and University of Alberta curriculum theorist, Dr. Ted Aoki, and that I had heard that this essay referred to a walk in Nitobe Gardens.
I found a version of this 1991 essay in a book available as an e-book from the UBC Library -- Curriculum in a New Key: The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki.
Here is a link to this evocative 2-page essay that talks about Dr. Inazo Nitobe and his wish to bridge East and West, to be a bridge across the Pacific Ocean. The essay also talks about one of the bridges in Nitobe Gardens (the zigzag 'bridge of marriage at the appropriate age', I'm guessing), and describes it in a time of year when the irises are blooming.
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| Nitobe Garden zigzag bridge with the irises blooming. Photo credit: Daniel Mosquin, Creative Commons Licence, UBC Botanical Garden |
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