“My philosophy is really quite simple,” she said to the graduate seminar. The students took copious notes, filling hundreds of pages with real-time manual transcription, blisters breaking through callus to capture her grace of speech. “First and foremost: through God all things are possible. Second: we owe our presence to one another as we owe our presence to ourselves. Third,” she said, motioning with her hand to take this down verbatim, “the precision of creating truth can allow us an equal precision in destroying evil.” She pulled out a stack of headshots with my high school graduation photo. “Thus brings us to your semester-long multimedia project.”
Keegan Shepherd 