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Do you remember first arriving at college, where you were newly and totally free to do what you wanted: make friends, choose courses, join a folk dance group, go to lectures on subjects never offered in high school, stay up late for long talks or get up early for a walk in the hills, do day trips to the nearby city, get together once a week with a string quartet, say goodbye to your roommate as she left to fight a war in the Israeli army as an airplane pilot, get into politics and international affairs, and share the cooking and other work for the communal house.
All this excitement of my freshman year at the University of California at Berkeley, I rediscovered here at the Academy Village, at another stage of my life, freed not from high school and parents, but from a job and life-long routines. At Berkeley I lived in a co-op which provided a warm home community, and I find that here too. And again here, in my older years, I am free to plunge into an exciting new life, cultivating my garden, literally and figuratively, and 'fertilizing' the world around with my talents and training, while continuing my former career with occasional college teaching.
Author : Professor Emerita in a small college.
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