Being able to teach this year has been a real blessing and ouroboric experience. The place that I once felt so much angst about – the Institution – became a safe haven for me: a place to both teach and greatly expand my learning about writers, thinkers, and values that were left out of my education. It's also a place where I can embody my human beingness in a position of authority, and thereby hope to lend authority to the notion of being a human being.