Monday August 24 – \u00a0\u201cto face in the wind\u2019s teeth”<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>About 35 new freshmen arrived in the residence halls yesterday. \u00a0 \u00a0They came early to travel together to a retreat center outside the city for a 2 day retreat, a preparation of their souls and imaginations for the challenges that wait for them when classes begin. \u00a0All three campuses change when students bring their energy and hope and fears to a year long encounter with ways of thinking that will stretch them. \u00a0 All of the rest of us who work here, faculty and staff and administrators, probably take a few deep breaths and square our shoulders. \u00a0\u201cHere we go.”<\/p>\n The poet\u00a0William Carlos Williams understood life-weariness and beauty\u2019s restorative powers. \u00a0 \u00a0It\u2019s very brief. \u00a0 Try reading it aloud once or twice, with pauses.<\/p>\n Happy new year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n john sj<\/p>\n Today\u2019s Post:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Manoeuvre<\/strong><\/p>\n I saw the two starlings turned in the air together William Carlos Williams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monday August 24 – \u00a0\u201cto face in the wind\u2019s teeth” \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 About 35 new freshmen arrived in the residence halls yesterday. \u00a0 \u00a0They came early to travel together to a retreat center outside the city for a 2 day retreat, … Continue reading
\ncoming in toward the wires
\nBut at the last,
\njust before alighting, they<\/p>\n
\nand landed backwards!
\nthat\u2019s what got me \u2014
\nto face into the wind\u2019s teeth.<\/p>\n