I remember narry a drop in ‘88, and sunshine peaking through the branches of the trees on Stetson Road, as I skipped one of the ‘mandatory’ events, as Cara Schlesinger described Bob Friedrich’s Sociology of Knowledge and Belief to me, and tell me that Amy was taking it, and, as …
Always persuasive, Cara. (You should have seen her contract major proposal; I had the joy of being able to tell her it was accepted).
A few clouds did pass the windows of the Meditation Room in Thompson, as I skipped another mandatory meeting, as Amy and John…
Life is a string of wondrous contingencies; that “fifth” course for me, something I never would have done without prompting, the start of a habit and wondrous journey, with the gift of Bob’s way of seeing the world. And a bit more of Amy’s and Cindy’s and Cara’s and John’s and … everyone there. What Bob’s respect could do to a classroom!
The first reading was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by-the-way. (Bob’s was the first tutorial I took; wasn’t there a rule then that you were only supposed to take one?)
August 29th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
I have been told that in 1981 it was dry and clear. I know that it was in 1953.
August 29th, 2006 at 7:27 pm
I remember narry a drop in ‘88, and sunshine peaking through the branches of the trees on Stetson Road, as I skipped one of the ‘mandatory’ events, as Cara Schlesinger described Bob Friedrich’s Sociology of Knowledge and Belief to me, and tell me that Amy was taking it, and, as …
Always persuasive, Cara. (You should have seen her contract major proposal; I had the joy of being able to tell her it was accepted).
A few clouds did pass the windows of the Meditation Room in Thompson, as I skipped another mandatory meeting, as Amy and John…
Life is a string of wondrous contingencies; that “fifth” course for me, something I never would have done without prompting, the start of a habit and wondrous journey, with the gift of Bob’s way of seeing the world. And a bit more of Amy’s and Cindy’s and Cara’s and John’s and … everyone there. What Bob’s respect could do to a classroom!
The first reading was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by-the-way. (Bob’s was the first tutorial I took; wasn’t there a rule then that you were only supposed to take one?)