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The Courage to Answer Your Calling
Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.
—Polly Berends, writer and sculptor
Jonathan Zeichner grew up in a middle-class community in suburban Connecticut. When he was twelve, his parents divorced, and he moved to a tough inner-city neighborhood in New Haven. At his middle school, it wasn’t uncommon for students to carry guns and knives and to fight with teachers. As the one Jewish kid in a school where only 10 percent of the students were white, Jonathan at times had to protect himself.
“I learned not be a victim or a target. I had to stand up for myself. I had to develop some bravado.”
Jonathan also had to learn how to ...
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