It was an uneventful flight to Tucson where I finally got to meet the rest of the team. I was picked up by Gail Burd, Distinguished University Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Professor of Cell Biology & Anatomy, and Dean of the College of Science at the University of Arizona. We met Chris Impey, a Distinguished Professor in Physics at the university and Ed Prather, an astronomy professor and NASA teacher professional development specialist who was in India with the Monks last year but is not going this year. Bryce joined us, as did Richard Sterling former head of the National Writing Project , and currently on faculty at UC Berkeley. We had a nice dinner, good conversation, and the ideas were flowing.
In the morning, we caught up with Ken Tsunoda (of the Sager Family Foundation) and Mark St. John of Inverness Research for a day long planning session. Bobby Sager got on the conference call to kick things off and then we had a long day of work ahead of us.
As Mark calls it, we were identifying structures.
I view this as a cultural project, hence the name of the blog...where we are connecting the cultures of Tibetan Buddhism, monastic life, western perspectives, science, science education and leadership. And, structures are an integral aspect of culture. There is a lot to think about and plan as we embark on this multi-year initiative!
Still on eastern time, I woke up at 4:00 both days (at least it wasn't 3:00 a.m.) so had no trouble getting to the 6:30 a.m. departure back to Atlanta. I had a crazy flight attendant try to give me a shot of vodka in my juice and although it indeed was 5:00 p.m. somewhere, it wasn't mywhere so I told her no, maybe next time.
Until the next post, see ya.
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