And now it brings me great joy to see others stepping up and into leadership into the space of the unclosed circle. I have, as social justice advocate in the 1970’s marched for women’s rights and civil liberties, etc., yet that bookended period was an incomplete circle (no ERA, major but incomplete progress). The March on Saturday, as you know Shirley I will be participating in Chicago’s sister March, is a circle moment for me. Thanks too, Professor Scott, for sharing your expanded work WRITE TO THE POINT at such a low price point. I too am attracted to Professor Scott’s counsel,”… bring the circle round until it ALMOST closed, then send it out like an arrow in search of something new and surprising.” It both offers an invitation for others to enter in and encourages continued exploration. We can use bookends to hold a set of books (or mark a period of life events) and then expand the space between them later (more beloved books new insights on or value discovered from those life events).Ĭircles: Circular journey, unbroken circles, circle councils. This course forms the “book end” to the first Honors course called Ruling Ideas in which students are challenged to define “why do you believe what you believe?”Īs a “capstone” class, Honrs 401A Worldview reviews the answers to this question and adds another: what do you believe you are called to become? And how will you continue asking and answering this question in the future?įinally, I am thinking about the bookend of place as I look out the window of my beautiful, temporary, campus office:īeing here on the campus I first knew as a student 50 years ago always makes me nostalgic.īeing here at the invitation of a former student who told me he was going to grad school and coming back to take my job, makes me smile.īookends and Circles, I find value in each metaphor. It so happens that the class I am teaching, Honors Worldview, is also a “bookend.” What better words could there be for a teacher? The text from Ecclesiastes struck me forcefully in a new way as I begin to teach a course, Now is the time for two other inaugurations, the first in Washington, DC this week,Īnd the upcoming inauguration of President Susan Schultz Huxman at Eastern Mennonite University. It has been twenty years since my inauguration. I am touched anew by the thoughtfulness of Welby and Sharon, who special ordered these replicas from the doors of the Library of CongressĪnd chose the words engraved on the bookends. They commemorate a momentous time in my life, the day the Goshen College community formally initiated me I saw these beautiful bookends in a new way this week. These brass bookends were an inauguration gift from my brother- and sister-in-law.
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