Cause I gotta have Faith

Dear Colleagues Across the Curriculum
 
   Cause I Gotta have Faith

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=883t2Pac8pk
 
Just finished reading a brilliant student
portfolio on day-to-day agony & ecstasy:
wit, whim, wracked  by hate and desire—
liars, triggers, & straw berries  o my.
 
Several years ago we had some  brief
small excitement about “transformation”
as liberal art.  Sustainability beat it out.
 
  “Faith & Higher Ed as WWC”
 
I myself am religious as hell but  not spiritual
worth a damn.  Full of faith, never the less.
A couple times so imbued spiritually I had
to take a shot of  thorazine to quiet down.
Chemically contrary: it sent me running up
and down the halls with restless legs and I
couldn’t speak words for 2 days.
 
A necessary if insufficient cause for my
being here now. 
 
My dad aspired to assume the college
chaplain-ship the year Fred Ohler planned
a sabbatical (field lying fallow for a year)
I drove him over from Durham for the
interview.  We  climbed Mt Pisgah together,
looking east of Eden toward the promised land.

Swannanoa.
 
Two formers students killed themselves here.
One with a knife in the neck. The other jumped
off the bridge.  Both self-described spiritual
voyagers:  their frontiers yet unknown.
Stalwart pioneering. Harrowing. 
 
Mushrooms. LSD. Weed. Peyote—talk of
psychotropics, adderal, Ritalin, alcohol &
nicotine, jogging, bottle water, vegan-
vegetarianism, hook-ups admittedly majoring
in Anesthetics even while marching  to the
beat of the environmental drummer.
 .
An environmental issue. Faith. Spiritual but not
particularly religious. An emerging value and
phenomena.
 
Credo ut intelligam.
I believe in order to know.
Eggs come first: immaculate conceptions.
Good reason for everything.  Need we argue? .

xxxooo. Presgbyter