Support the person, change the system.
– Dr. Oscar Felix, Colorado State University
NASPA Closing the Achievement Gap: Student Success in Higher Education Conference
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Gather. Discover. Cultivate.
Gather. Discover. Cultivate.
Support the person, change the system.
– Dr. Oscar Felix, Colorado State University
NASPA Closing the Achievement Gap: Student Success in Higher Education Conference
Shannon E. Williams 
When you’re young, and in good health,
you can imagine living in New York City,
or Nepal, or in a tree beyond the moon,
and who knows who you’ll marry: a millionaire,
a monkey, a sea captain, a clown.
But the best imaginers are the old and wounded,
who swim through ever narrowing choices,
dedicating their hearts to peace, a stray cat,
a bowl of homemade vegetable soup,
or red Mountain Ash berries in the snow.
Imagine this: only one leg and lucky to have it,
a jig-jagged jaunt with a cane along the shore,
leaning on a walker to get from grocery to car,
smoothing down the sidewalk on a magic moving chair,
teaching every child you meet the true story
of this sad, sweet, tragic, Fourth of July world.
“Imagine This” by Freya Manfred
http://waxwingmag.org/items/Issue9/28_Smith-Good-Bones.php#top