I didn't take many photos from my time at the conference, but here are a few
that I managed to snap. (After all, I was busy learning!)
that I managed to snap. (After all, I was busy learning!)
I managed to snap a photo of a sign for the Rural Libraries Conference and the sign right next to it: GVSU's Master of Social Work hooding ceremony. Why? Well, if I had stayed in my previous career, I would've been pursuing a MSW. It was an interesting moment when I saw the two signs side by side...made me think of The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Did you also notice that the Rural Libraries sign was handwritten in marker, while the other was professional printed? This is a good metaphor for current public library funding versus higher education.
ReplyDeleteA very good metaphor. (I must admit that it was slightly embarrassing.)
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