In Many Ways, Constancy Is An Illusion.

When Any Relationship Is Characterized By Difference, Particularly A Disparity In Power, There Remains A Tendency To Model It On The Parent-child-relationship. Even Protectiveness And Benevolence Toward The Poor, Toward Minorities, And Especially Toward Women Have Involved Equating Them With Children.

Improvisation And New Learning Are Not Private Processes; They Are Shared With Others At Every Age. We Are Called To Join In A Dance Whose Steps Must Be Learned Along The Way, So It Is Important To Attend And Respond. Even In Uncertainty, We Are Responsible For Our Steps.

Goals Too Clearly Defined Can Become Blinkers.

Human Beings Tend To Regard The Conventions Of Their Own Societies As Natural, Often As Sacred.

I Had Repeatedly Accepted Inappropriate Burdens, Stepping In To Do What Needed To Be Done. In Retrospect, I Think I Carried Them Well, But The Cost Was That I Was Chronically Overloaded, Weary, And Short Of Time For Politicking, Smoothing Ruffled Feathers, And Simply Resting.