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\nNo matter what you are celebrating, the holidays are about love, family, togetherness, joy and laughter. The past two years I have not gone home (to Atlanta) for the holidays and have, instead, remained in San Diego. I have been fortunate enough to have friends, faculty, and administration open their homes to me so that I would not have to spend it alone. For all the wonderful academic benefits to being here in SOLES, that is one that weighs much greater to me.<\/p>\n

The People<\/h1>\n

That is what makes SOLES, SOLES. That is what brings life to our beautiful building, passion to our thoughts and actions, and edits to our precious dissertations. Faculty, Staff, Administration, Cohorts, Classmates, From the Dean to the\u00a0Maintenance, we are a family. I understand how that may sound to some, but it is true and I love that!\u00a0\u00a0I take an incredible amount of pride in the communities I am involved in. I used to think that no other place or institution would ever take the place of my undergraduate college. And I was right \ud83d\ude42 However, there is a new space that is growing exponentially for SOLES. I think by the time I graduate I will have grown to love it so deeply that I often wonder how I will ever walk away from it. \u00a0Then I remember this poem:\u00a0Love arrives; \u00a0and in its train come ecstasies\/old memories of pleasure\/ancient histories of pain. \u00a0Yet, if we are bold\/love strikes away the chains of fear \u00a0from our souls. \u00a0 \u00a0We are weaned from our timidity. \u00a0In the flush of love\u2019s light\/we dare be brave \/And suddenly we see \u00a0that love costs all we are \u00a0and will ever be. \u00a0Yet, it is only love \u00a0which sets us free. \u00a0– Maya Angelou<\/strong><\/em>
\nAnd I know that when the time comes, I will leave. Braver and unbound by any chains. I will leave here, Free because of the love…and that is worth celebrating.
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\n**The University of San Diego will be closed until January 2, 2013, we will resume our posts at that time**<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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