I Am a Guest in This House
This Place to Which I Belong
Dear Friends and Family,
To begin: My warmest welcome to you who are new to “Beyond the Comfort Zone.” I’m so very glad you’re here.
In today’s synthesis of my daily morning notes, I offer reflections on my journey along the Alcan to Alaska over the past week. This journey coincides with reading a recently published book that arrived in the mail while I was in Washington. The book, The Place of Our Belonging: A Work for Children and Educators Mentored by Thomas Berry, has been a traveling companion at an impeccably timed moment. It is “the story of an intimate communion of thought and practice, a small and deep work for children and educators, that formed as The Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World at Timberlake Earth Sanctuary in the foothills of North Carolina from 2000–2022.”1 I serve on the Educator Council of this organization and am intimate with the work. But I have come to it anew in The Place of Our Belonging, which takes the reader “deep into the inner land…