Curiously Strong

Altoids come to mind. "Curiously strong" is the legend on the box.

What if this were to be a legend representing those who propose to make offerings of our thoughts and practices on teaching at OBTC 08?

My trusty e-dictionary from Houghton-Mifflin offers these meanings:

curious (adjective)

1. Eager to acquire knowledge: inquiring, inquisitive, investigative, questioning. See investigate.
2. Unduly interested in the affairs of others: inquisitive, inquisitorial. Informal: nosy, snoopy. See investigate.
3. Deviating from the customary: bizarre, cranky, eccentric, erratic, freakish, idiosyncratic, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, singular, strange, unnatural, unusual, weird. Slang: kooky, screwball. British Slang: rum, rummy2. See usual.
4. Causing puzzlement; perplexing: funny, odd, peculiar, queer, strange, weird. See usual.

There you have it. This is what it means to me to be an entrepreneurial teacher, learner, and organizer (think manager).

Our work is curiously strong. It startles. It clears minds the way an Altoid makes our taste buds forget the last thing we ate. It lingers.

Our work is curiously strong, because we, who are attracted to this Teaching Society for Management Educators are, ourselves, curious.

Are we not?