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Standing atop a snowfield at 12,000 feet in 1975, Jerry Fabyanic scanned the expanse and said, "Holy, shit! This is it." He quit his job, packed his truck, and headed west without looking in the rearview mirror. Deciding that the only thing he ever wanted to be was a teacher, Jerry began his literal journey into world of public education and into the symbolic world of myth and story. He counts Herman Melville, John Steinbeck, and Joseph Campbell among his most influential thinkers and greatest heroes.

Over the years, his love affair with the Colorado Rocky Mountains has grown deeper. Jerry has learned the importance of paying attention to guideposts, junctures that at first seem coincidental but prove to be path-altering experiences. Whethe ...more

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We the People: Character and Choice

The idea of character has been on my mind of late. Character, of course, has multiple meanings, from a symbol to a person. It even can be descriptive as in “He’s quite a character.” Which gets at the most intriguing application of the term: a person’s character. Besides being one, everyone has one. We’re all characters with a character. A person’s character is not only descriptive, it’s also telli

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Metaphors We Live By

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Jerry Fabyanic wrote a new blog post We the People: Character and Choice The idea of character has been on my mind of late. Character, of course, has multiple meanings, from a symbol to a person. It even can be descriptive Read more of this blog post »
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How would we, as a people, react if Earth literally or symbolically stopped spinning? A wondrous dimension of Laurel McHargue’s "2183" is that it can be read on two levels: literally and metaphorically. At the surface level, "2183" is reminiscent of ...more
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