Most of us absorb, without realizing it, a kind of invisible ceiling about what we're allowed to want. It comes from watching the adults around us, from the conversations at dinner tables, from what was praised and what was quietly discouraged. If you grew up in a household where security was the goal, ambition may have felt like ingratitude.
A resolution that came before the college's Academic Senate in 2021 criticized the Claim Jumper mascot as an image of the gold rush culturally associated with stealing and clandestine activities and as such not aligned with the college's values.
I am lucky to have taken some incredible trips, including a recent one to "the end of the earth": the island of Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost point of South America. In a week, we traveled by boat and drove over 20 hours, seeing glaciers, beavers, a spotted seal, and passed two vehicles and two fishing boats. We saw more penguins than people.
For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word
Caring for aging parents comes with unique challenges and stress related to finding common ground and navigating family dynamics, but may also present opportunities for learning, support, togetherness, and collaboration.
