ABSTRACT
In 2015, the author has co-organized with Erika Hasebe-Ludt the 7th Biennial Provoking Curriculum Studies Conference at the University of British Columbia. Canadian curriculum scholars gathered together in order to examine critically and creatively the meaning of "provoking curriculum" for innovative education. This chapter focuses on three specific moments in his living stories with Bill Doll, moments that are the cherished memories. Bill has devoted his life to learning how to live well, how to live poetically, and by living poetically, he teaches us how to live well, too. Bill lives poetically in the spaces between his primary two names. On the one hand, he is William E. Doll, Jr.—a name with enough gravitas to gain entrance to a prestigious golf club! On the other hand, he is Bill Doll—like a Dr. Seuss play on words, the name reverberates like a bell, a spondee with two stressed syllables, singing out a psalm of delight.
