[April 2002 journal entry]
I have been reshaped by crossing several thresholds – e.g., (1) from my rural upbringing’s pre-modern way of seeing ‘the world’ and human experience to a modern/scientific way of seeing ‘the world’ and human experience, (2) from a 200-mile radius around home to a global scope re my awareness of ‘the world’, (3) from manual typewriting to word processing, (4) from an uninformed and unexamined colonizing view of United Stated foreign policy toward Africa, South America, Asia to a ‘liberation theology’ critique of United States foreign policy, (5) from segregation to non-segregation, (6) from blue collar to white collar, (7) from the era of two superpowers to the era of one superpower, (8) from pre-Vietnam to post-Vietnam, (9) from pre-Watergate to post-Watergate, (10) from pre-‘9 11’ to post-‘9 11’, (11) . . . .