When I was graduating from college, our “annual” (yearbook) asked the graduating seniors to fill out a 3X5 card with whatever they wanted — within limits of what propriety allowed in 1979. I was graduating with a degree in business and had a deep desire to demonstrate that I had greater depth than Adam Smith and a focus on profit and loss. So my index card contained a quote from T.S. Eliot’s “Little Gidding” that I loved and thought was sufficiently serious to reflect the importance of graduation. Here’s what I wrote:

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”

Here’s the funny thing — all these years later, I still love this passage. And all these years later I hope that I haven’t stopped exploring. The photos on this site show some of my journey to try and “know the place”, as halting and fumbling as that journey has been.
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