TEN
700 Sundays
Keeping Perspective
What happens if you throw a party and nobody shows? What happens if you plan a second-year elective course and no one shows? After forty-five years of teaching, why does the thought enter my mind at the beginning of every semester? Why would I fear that no one will show up for my classes? They always have and will continue to do so. At least that is what forty years of experience would suggest.
Why 700 Sundays? Ten years ago, my wife and I went to the old opera house in Boston to see Billy Crystal in a one-act play tell his life story. Crystal titled the show 700 Sundays. That was the number of Sundays he had with his father before his father passed away when Crystal was fifteen years old. Through acting ...
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