Higher Education for What?   I stood in the hallway greeting students as they prepared for the long awaited doctoral …

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I am becoming a staunch counterculturalist! I don't know precisely when or how it started happening, but it is clear to me that if everyone is going left, then I will be the one staring longingly in the right direction with my hand raised high to ask the annoying question with a preface: "Ahhh, not to cause problems or anything, but exactly why aren't we going right?"

I have had both the pleasure and hardship of walking alongside a few loved ones facing terminal illnesses. Indeed, it was a hard thing to do, and yet it was a pleasure because they are all remarkable people. These journeys have birthed in me this understanding of living with the twin companions of life on one shoulder and death on the other.