Category: Teachers

Thoughts and reflections from our teachers.

Love is Watching Someone Die

Friends, This letter came from a young woman who has just recently returned from serving in the U.S. Air Force in Iraq. Her main task, and one she took on so thoroughly that she voluntarily extended her tour of duty…

Road to Peace

Esperanza Spalding’s performance at the Nobel Peace Prize proceedings (Dec. 16, 2009). Lovely and meandering, not a new message but…is it new messages we need?   “The road to peace is endless, the journey with open eyes is how we’ll mend…

Advice from Robinson Jeffers

Then what is the answer? —  Not to be deluded by dreams. To know that great civilizations have broken down into violence, and their tyrants come, many times before. When open violence appears, to avoid it with honor or choose…