Of Any Stopping Place In

The Christian Tradition Was Passed On To Me As A Great Rich Mixture, A Bouillabaisse Of Human Imagination And Wonder Brewed From The Richness Of Individual Lives.

The Capacity To Combine Commitment With Skepticism Is Essential To Democracy.

In Many Ways, Constancy Is An Illusion. After All, Our Ancestors Were Immigrants, Many Of Them Moving On Every Few Years; Today We Are Migrants In Time. Unless Teachers Can Hold Up A Model Of Lifelong Learning And Adaptation, Graduates Are Likely To Find Themselves Trapped Into Obsolescence As The World Changes Around Them. Of Any Stopping Place In Life, It Is Good To Ask Whether It Will Be A Good Place From Which To Go On As Well As A Good Place To Remain.

I Had Repeatedly Accepted Inappropriate Burdens, Stepping In To Do What Needed To Be Done. In Retrospect, I Think I Carried Them Well, But The Cost Was That I Was Chronically Overloaded, Weary, And Short Of Time For Politicking, Smoothing Ruffled Feathers, And Simply Resting.

Learning To Savor The Vertigo Of Doing Without Answers Or Making Do With Fragmentary Ones Opens Up The Pleasures Of Recognizing And Playing With Patterns, Finding Coherence Within Complexity, Sharing Within Multiplicity.