When I hear the noise and see the headlines about people I truly admired - Charlie Rose, Bill Cosby, Kevin Spacey, Louis CK, Al Franken, etc. - I mostly turn my head. Not that their shameful acts are directly comparable, but they are all people I admire (not so much Bill O'Reilly, Roy Moore, Roger Ailes, etc). So far, I haven't really spoken to anyone about my disappointment or empathies I share with both victims and perpetrators.
By the time I graduated (Carleton) college in Minnesota, I had learned enough - about myself and my capacity for both positive and selfish love - that I thought it best to take a two year "time out". I signed up for a Peace Corps position as a high school teacher and was placed in a very remote rural high school in north central Cameroon.
While I wouldn't describe it as a vow of chastity (unsuccessful at any rate), it did change the game, and challenge me. I'd later explain, after Peace Corps hired me as a Cross Cultural trainer for new volunteers, that our ideas about Peace Corps as a remote and lonely adventure are really mistaken. We arrive with hiking boots and backpacks, but find ourselves enrolled in a black fraternity. For most of us, it's intensely social, lacking privacy.
"All the other kids with their pumped up kicks..."
By the time I graduated (Carleton) college in Minnesota, I had learned enough - about myself and my capacity for both positive and selfish love - that I thought it best to take a two year "time out". I signed up for a Peace Corps position as a high school teacher and was placed in a very remote rural high school in north central Cameroon.
While I wouldn't describe it as a vow of chastity (unsuccessful at any rate), it did change the game, and challenge me. I'd later explain, after Peace Corps hired me as a Cross Cultural trainer for new volunteers, that our ideas about Peace Corps as a remote and lonely adventure are really mistaken. We arrive with hiking boots and backpacks, but find ourselves enrolled in a black fraternity. For most of us, it's intensely social, lacking privacy.
"All the other kids with their pumped up kicks..."
