Hi Friends:
I so enjoyed our brief time together at Chautauqua. I do hope you felt you've begun some important work, as I certainly feel you did. I came home to Pittsburgh and stumbled upon this lovely little essay from Richard Ford in Sunday's New York Times. Maybe you saw it, too:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/opinion/sunday/the-song-of-the-suburbs.html?_r=0
The quotation that jumped out at me, that I would have brought to class, is this one:
It's a fair measure of ourselves as adults--of our empathy, at least--that we try to achieve a view of our parents' lives more as they viewed them, and less in the ruthless, tunneled vision of childhood (not that our parents' view would necessarily be clearer).
Best wishes for a productive summer. Thanks again for your own empathy and intelligent contributions to our class. --Kristin
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