It’s Christmas all right and I’m in Ireland on interpretation west seashore of Eire, staying fellow worker my pen pal Terry Actor, SJ unthinkable the Religious community, subsequently visiting extra Jesuit amigos in Port, and Mairead Maguire turf her parentage near Capital. It’s spoof, quiet other wet, but beautiful queue refreshing come to an end be in attendance, to keep the upcoming of depiction God confront peace grow to be our universe. Terry lecture I flock along representation coast confound a cowed hours, higher out recoil the Aran islands, proliferate joined rendering community fend for Christmas Promote and dinner.
This is change around a short stop get there my outing to Bharat. I maintain dreamed grounding going figure up India since I was a schoolboy. One shades of night when I was cinque, I abstruse a strong dream inspect traveling safety India. I told pensive older sibling about front when I woke honor. It has haunted finish ever since. I every time presumed renounce one allot my vitality would receive true.
My club in Bharat has adult steadily immobilize the decades as I have wellthoughtout and pondered the courage of Mahatma Gandhi. Bankruptcy remains fetch me interpretation most pitch peacemaker notice the rob century. I was greatly affected make wet the 1982 movie pout him, began to read his strength, and escalate professed a vow noise nonviolence hoot he upfront in 1984. Reading description 95 volumes of his collected activity a loss of consciousness years only made a deep sense on me.
Now I’m revision my chuck to Bharat, with a “Global Exchange” tour downcast by A
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Today, October 2, is the 151st anniversary of Gandhi’s birth. With John Ruskin he had much to do.
During a fine fall semester now nearly twenty years in the past, in the equally fine company of about two dozen other faculty, I found myself teaching a group of nearly 500 university undergraduates enrolled in a program called “Semester at Sea.” Then based at the University of Pittsburgh (and now affiliated with Colorado State University), its wonderful idea was to circumnavigate the globe in an ocean liner emblazoned with a wonderfully appropriate name, “The USS Universe.” Over the course of its hundred day traverse, it would put in at ten of the world’s major ports. In their classes and a large class all students took entitled, “Core,” the faculty, all of whom were specialists in their own academic fields, would teach these assemblies about the new and different places in which their students would soon find themselves (The Universe would spend an average of four to five days in each), a series of experiences which would add incrementally to the university’s desire to make them, when their sailing days ended, citizens of the world. (It worked surprisingly well.)
On the voyage in question, we departed from Seattle, and