December 11, 2009

Until We Meet Again (Changing the World begins with the dishes)

My "kids" (it's all in jest) left yesterday.
To the MESP students of Fall 2009: I am better for knowing you, and will miss you all.


“I beg you… to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which would not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answers…”

-Rainer Maria Rilke

2 comments:

Kunnari said...

nice quote. i'm a big fan of rilke.

Janelle and Daniel said...

dena!

we called our students our 'kids' too! but, we only had 7 and you look like you had a huge group - good for you, that must have been a LOT of work (and super rewarding from the sounds of it!)

love reading the updates,

janelle