The Oar

ACPA Senior Scholars Blog

Friday, 1 May 2020 - 3:14pm
If you put your soul against this oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a source not outside your limbs, but from a holy realm that lives in us. Excerpt from That Lives In Us by ~Rumi The Oar As this academic year dies, there is life emerging from the ground and the trees. It is springtime. It always feels like something is dying to me as an academic year comes...

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