22Finding a Kinder Way to Let Go
It was a cold evening in late December 2009. I was on the verge of finishing my doctoral dissertation in language and literacy education, after two years of researching, writing and editing the 200-page manuscript, a manuscript composed of equal parts narrative, poetry, photography and the requisite theoretical text and scholarly citations.
Sitting in my favorite white chair beside the woodstove, light fading from the skylight above, I dialed the phone number of my professor and academic supervisor, Dr. Carl Leggo.
“I liked it how it was previously, Carl; it was beautiful and I like it now,” I admitted, having spent the entire day rearranging various quotations in the ...
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