Yes, I'm still planning to attend the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley. No, it's not going to be Fall of '09. The economy is rough for many right now, and I seem to be among them. I have no doubt, though, that this too will pass and things will change. I have a vocation and a strong will.
I'm deferring enrollment for a year, to give us more time to gather our rosebuds while we may, before moving on to a larger garden. This is merely a delay.
Meantime, I'm looking for extra work as a freelance writer. Know of work? Please send it my way, and thanks!
If you care to follow my progress in a more relaxed, personal vein, pop on over to Musings of a Mystic Mess where you can follow (and rate!) me as this amazing journey continues. I'm also on Facebook, if you can handle both academics and web 2.0 technology.
Blessings,
Deborah
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- The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill. - Robert Anton Wilson
- The great irony is that American society is the most religious among industrial societies, in that more people call themselves religious. It's off the charts. But the degree of ignorance Americans have about religion, often including their own, may be higher than anywhere. It's a bizarre combination of factors which makes for uninformed strong feelings, most decidedly a bad mix. --Harvey Cox, Hollis Professor of Divinity, HDS
- You've got to love this in a God--consistently assembling the motleyest people to bring, into the lonely and frightening world, a commitment to caring and community. It's a centuries-long reality show--Moses the stutterer, Rahab the hooker, David the adulterer, Mary the homeless teenager. Not to mention all the mealy-mouthed disciples. Not to mention a raging insecure narcissist like me. --Anne Lamott
- Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. -William James, psychologist and philosopher (1842-1910)
- If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "agaisnt" is the mind's worst disease. --Sent-ts'an, c. 700 C.E.
- “Moreover, given the increasing diversity of America's population, the dangers of sectarianism have never been greater. Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.” — Barack Obama
- The relationship between a person and another human being is what creates and allows for a relationship with God. If you're not capable of living with each other and getting along with each other, then you're not capable of having a relationship with God. The question is not whether God can bring peace into the world. The question is: Can we? --Bruce Feiler
- Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. --Harry S. Truman, 33rd US president (1884-1972)
- We should not look at our knowledge as a possession, in which we find security and which gives us a sense of identity; we should not be filled with our knowledge or hang on to it, or crave it. Knowledge should not assume the quality of dogma, which enslaves us. Knowledge is nothing but the penetrating activity of thought — without ever becoming an invitation to stand still in order to find certainty. --Erich Fromm
- It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. --Audre Lord
- There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous. --Neil Gaiman
- There are things I must attend to beyond the daily round and that give the daily round its reason, feelings that the world somehow wants me to be here, that I am answerable to an innate image, which I am filling out in my biography. --James Hillman
- God declines to sustain its faithful servant except from sources unkown to the servant. --'Ibn 'Abbad
- I know of many things worth dying for, and none worth killing for. --Ghandi
- There are two ways of being the light: the candle, or the mirror that reflects it. --Edith Wharton
- The world is one organism; an organism at war with itself is doomed. --Carl Sagan
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