Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be ~ Karen Ravn

Wow, what a year we are looking forward to in 2010. We have many new faces to welcome onto the board and a few goodbyes to make as well. Let’s start with the welcomes:

"In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in a dark wood where the true way was wholly lost" - Dante Aligheire, The Divine Comedy (in Whyte, 1994, p. 1)

I was rummaging through the top drawer of my desk the other day looking for something. Without thinking, I found myself picking up a cassette that has languished in that drawer for several years. The tape, "Making a Friend of the Unknown" by poet and author David Whyte (1997), seemed to be calling to me this particular day.

Hello Colleagues,
Even though I did not go away on vacation this summer (why leave paradise if you already live there?), I still love the energy that is present as folks return from their vacations and a new school year begins with supplies of notebooks, pencils, and pens stocking the shelves at local stores.