As I sit here in my hotel room in DC the night before conducting a training for a client (NPR), after a very long train ride from NY after being stuck on the train for 2 hours due to a broken train in front of us, working late to review materials for the training, and restless as I always am the night before, I have been reading all the amazing and heartfelt stories being shared by SBC students and fellow alumnae. Working so late brings back all those memories of studying late in the basement of Glass or Dew, of other times pulling all nighters to desperately put an issue of the Sweet Briar News to bed, of those coutless road trips, and so many fond memories with my fellow SBC sisters. I had been heartbroken to read the events over the last few weeks and held my tongue knowing that not all the facts were known (and frankly may never be known), and frustrated with the rush to judgement by people who do not know nor have ever experienced life as a SBC student now or in the past. I have been truly impressed with the interim president and his handling of this trial by fire upon taking the reigns as president. Are there questions that SBC needs to address still? Yes, and I am happy to hear that SBC is trying to build upon this and grow further along the spectrum as a diverse community. To my time, to my journey at Sweet Briar, to my classmates and fellow alumnae, to my professors, to my sister who I was blessed to get a chance to attend Sweet Briar with, I owe the following which has held me fast through both the good and the truly dark times. 1. Never, never, never give up. Winston Churchill 2. Never stop asking questions. Never stop learning. 3. When you fall of the horse, get back up on that horse! 4. When you skin your knee, cry, yes, but then find a way to pick yourself back up and continue on. 5. Embrace wide and far flung interests. 6. Try many things, embrace the experiences! See the world and explore it! 7. My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones. Agnetha Faltskog 8. People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child, our own two eyes. All is a miracle. Thich Nhat Han 9. Hold on to that flame that cries out for air, for oxygen, to write, to express, to contemplate, to create. 10. I am still and will always be a work in progress, a journey not yet completed. #holla4thanks
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 06:21:19 +0000
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