I drove to Tacoma this morning to teach a class. The sun was just rising, the mountains were out and Rainier was looming on the horizon with streaks of red of the rising sun around it. I don't understand how thousands of people can ride by that sight every day and not be totally awed, humbled and have their breath just taken away. I could not help but glory in the majesty that is our planet.
A Tacoma student said something to me that struck me about the way I have thinking...I was talking and kept saying you all when speaking of the pacific northwest. He corrected me and we all. He said that "all you all is really all WE all, because you (speaking of me) is one of we now". I really haven't been thinking of it like that yet. Maybe that needs some more comtemplation. Maybe part of my problem is not yet feeling like I am "one of us" here in the northwest. I still feel like one of "them", i.e. from some place else.
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