Here is the latest reason, which is an excerpt from an email from an alum:
Thank you for teaching classes that make people aware of the world around them, I truly believe that your classes were the most important classes that I took at Western Oregon.
Isn't such an email a wonderful way to start a Monday?
I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic
By Edward Hirsch
Today I am pulling on a green wool sweater
and walking across the park in a dusky snowfall.
The trees stand like twenty-seven prophets in a field,
each a station in a pilgrimage—silent, pondering.
Blue flakes of light falling across their bodies
are the ciphers of a secret, an occultation.
I will examine their leaves as pages in a text
and consider the bookish pigeons, students of winter.
I will kneel on the track of a vanquished squirrel
and stare into a blank pond for the figure of Sophia.
I shall begin scouring the sky for signs
as if my whole future were constellated upon it.
I will walk home alone with the deep alone,
a disciple of shadows, in praise of the mysteries.
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