The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it is making the effort to interact without knowing all the rules, improvising certain situations, which allows us to grow.

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

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.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.