commencement address 2013

 






“We should judge teaching not
by the amount of knowledge it passes on,
 but by the enduring excitement it generates.
 Knowledge, when it comes, is a later arrival,
flaring up, when the time is right,
from the sparks good teachers have implanted
in their students’ souls.”





                            Gary Gutting











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rhyme of the day

                           






                                

                               yesterday,  upon the stair
                               i met a man who wasn't there
                                he wasn't there again today
                                 i wish,  i wish he'd go away



       







maybe i should start something new

























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metaphysics is endemic

"In an age of change and uncertainty,

people ask profound questions,

about life itself, about suffering,

about death, about love and what makes life worthwhile.

 People seek assurance and light. 

They respond if they are presented with a unifying reality

which is in every way good, true and beautiful. ...

Without question there is a yearning

for unity among peoples,

 a rejection of whatever discriminates

or marginalizes others."

                                          -- Cardinal Basil Hume, A Turning to God














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another haiku

                                









                                 Forgiveness a gift
                                 It is a gift to myself
                                 When I forgive you.





                                               

                                                        Rachel Marco-Havens


                    (daughter of    Richie Havens      +   4/24/2013)











                                              freedom indeed!







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more cosmos haiku

                                          great blue heron
                                           flapping across a white landscape
                                            my eyes did see











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cosmic lessons

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 you do not have a guitar in order to sing songs

      songs make you play the guitar so they can be heard

 

 

 

 

 

                                                       anonymous

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

other echoes

         It's remarkable.
               You can't turn a corner in the Capitol this week
                    without meeting a family of a gun violence victim.
                                        It's hard to say no to these families.


                                                                  -Connecticut senator











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