I’ve been working hard, preparing materials for some upcoming academic classes. I love being immersed in the world of ideas, but I need to remember not to stay there–it’s not where I want to live. A wise guide once said to me–“the mind’s job is to carry out the vision of the heart.” Feeding my…
There was a child went forth every day. And the first object he looks upon, that object he became. –Walt Whitman The late poet Stanley Kunitz believed that writers often have a “key image” that keeps working them over and over again in their writing. In fact, writers may spend an entire lifetime working one…
When I was 26, I almost died in a head-on collision on the highway and when I was 30, my beloved father died unexpectedly. Those two incidents that made me appreciate the fragility of life. Every living thing wants to realize its fullest potential. I feel OK clipping dead flowers from my flower bed, but…
We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting. ~ Kahlil Gibran
In yesterday’s class, I gave students the task of going out into the University community and finding: a) something visual that catches your eye (it can be as simple as a color), and b) some piece of writing or a phrase (such as an EXIT sign). A couple students came back with the phrase Seeing…
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