Can it be that our CITIZEN-ship is under siege? Are we at our best when we are being humane, or just being human? I've thought about this often. As humans high up on the food chain we bear a responsibility to life, to the earth, and to one another. I recently hosted a dinner for World Boston. My guests were from Albania, Argentina, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Cambodia, and Romania. In a follow-up email to our "amazing" conversation that evening, one guest said that, before coming, he was hoping to meet someone beyond a "straight business-like mindset". What he encountered was a different perspective from a different American. It is true-I am different. After traveling on six continents working in international development, I've seen a lot. I've learned a lot. It started at the hands of remarkable parents who sent me for travel to Colombia, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico when I was 16 because they didn't want me to grow up thinking 'America' was the center of the earth. They were so smart to set my path in this way. Who knew that this would shape an incipient global citizenship in me? Who knew that, as an elder in her 70th year, this craving for the deep end of the 'difference pool' would become my beloved sandbox.
I am also ending a spectacular experience as the Inaugural Distinguished Artist-Scholar in Residence at Bunker Hill Community College (2018-19). What an extraordinary and humbling experience! More on that 'year-of-living-
gloriously' in my next blog!
Our connections with one another must be more than human; they must be humane, honest, and passionate. How else will we survive the transformations of one dying civilization being replaced by another that we will build together? Be more than human. Be humane.
I am also ending a spectacular experience as the Inaugural Distinguished Artist-Scholar in Residence at Bunker Hill Community College (2018-19). What an extraordinary and humbling experience! More on that 'year-of-living-
gloriously' in my next blog!
Our connections with one another must be more than human; they must be humane, honest, and passionate. How else will we survive the transformations of one dying civilization being replaced by another that we will build together? Be more than human. Be humane.
