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Lemurian Metamorphosis Transforms Students

Happy are they that hear their detractions and can put them to mending. – Shakespeare There is a tree east of the Gateway Community Building. It’s a wild-looking thing, weathered, bleached and burnt, with misshapen, broken branch stubs poking from the trunk. Aloft, huge branches stab the sky in every direction with long, unruly pendulums…

Learning From Our Failures

Experience Teaches Best

Experience is the best teacher; fools learn from no other.  Franklin When I was seven, my family visited an aunt in Chicago, where I discovered a little candy shop and bought five penny candies. Instead of eating them, I conceived my first entrepreneurial scheme: I would take the candy home and sell it to my friends! Glowing…

Looking For The Good

How Illness Helped Me

Just when everything finally seemed to be in place in my life – a wonderful wife and family, my medical career where I wanted it to be, the good health to enjoy it all – I got a headache over my left eye. I’d never had headaches. An eye exam was normal, yet I had to…