[August 2004 journal entry]
I was born into and raised within a way of seeing ‘the world’ that had a radius of 200 miles at most from/around my small hometown and that retained/assumed an essentially pre-modern paradigm. My first years of college came at a junior college within that radius that insisted on a fervent loyalty to an essentially pre-modern paradigm. My decision to complete college at a regional state university began a long and arduous educational journey that eventually repositioned me within a much larger ‘world’ and that challenged/dissolved my confidence in the essentially pre-modern paradigm from my upbringing. I became more and more aware that I was living within a modern paradigm.