The pre-dawn streets were quiet places where the quiet can enter and warm your heart. For me, that quiet opens a space for slow down time while I am hurrying along the streets; it provides chances for focus and clarity that the hussle and bustle of the normal day does not. It’s a precious wedge of [...]
Her questions: ”You talk about being spiritual in your teaching. What does that mean? How can you be both an intellectual and spiritual? Isn’t it an either/or proposition?” My answer: ”Let me put it this way. A student once came up to me in class on the first day of the semester to inform me [...]
Someone asked me what I thought Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence are all about. I answered, “I have a challenge for you. Forget about all those separably identified intelligences. Instead, focus on the whole living person, on mind and body and spirit and whatever taken inseparably together, void of partitioning walls. I challenge you to [...]
BYU holding a star basketball player to its honor code, putting integrity before expediency, putting the value of character before the value of money, putting ethical and moral commitment over a top seed in the NCAA basketball championship tournament, about being mad over an honors code violation rather than giving in to “March Madness,” looking [...]
In my defense, two things hit me square between the eyes this week. First, students are dropping like flies because of the raging epidemic of “spring break fever” that is racing through and ravaging my campus. And, then, there’s an editorial by David Brooks that appears in this morning’s New York Times. Together they got [...]
UNC 81 duke 67!! Heart still pumpin’, even though I’ve taken off my “Thing One” Carolina blue wig. And, while this true blue Tarheel is flying high, I know, in the end, THE GAME is really just that: a game. Life and teaching are not! That came home after I opened my mailbox this morning [...]
