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ENTERING THE “REAL WORLD”

June 9, 2008 in Uncategorized
Tags: College graduation, Community, Healing, Life's work, Love, Privilege, Simplicity, The read world, Work with meaning

By Lydia Wylie-Kellerman A College Commencement Talk Today we each take a step into our life’s work. We’ve been told a million times we are entering the “real world.” But what is this real world? It is a world built on white privilege, on the prerogatives of wealth, on marginalization through homophobia, on the violence [...]

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