What follows is a series of musings that have blessed me and I hope they will you. It all started, sadly, with one word that stood out in an email from our assistant dean for student affairs. That word is home. She told us that 88 out of some 1600 students call the state of California home. We opened up our offices to these students who may no longer have a home in their home state. I spent a good deal of time on my walk home on Thursday wondering what it would be like to leave one’s home last September in California, excited about going all the way to NYC to study nursing at NYU, and then discovering during final exams, that there was no longer a home to go home to. Tomorrow, I will discover if that is actually the case for any of our 88. Sadly, so many in California have lost their homes and everything in them. But so many are glad to be alive.
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