photos from one of our walks in albany park
It is important to a generous ethical sensibility to come to terms in an affirmative way with much of what you have become through the checkered history of luck, circumstance, decision, habit, and fateful events.
Strive to overcome deep resentment of what or who you are so as to overcome the corollary disposition to rail against the parents, class, fate, past decisions, or world that brought you to this point.
Affirm the past, with the suffering that has taught this and that lesson, as a condition of future possibility.
Those who resent the world too much are eager to find others to hold responsible for their condition. They easily become punitive and exclusionary.
~ from my grad reading for this week, from "Identity/Different"
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