The Academy,
which has been and continues to be a gift.
I can say that
while the machine
holds gratitude for this space and opportunity,
it is not an overly emotional gratitude.
This is because
the equation of personal work
and soul is complex.
I had no conception
of what it meant to "work on myself"
when I met the Academy and Mervyn.
It is only after the long process (for me)
of trying to Remember Myself,
a struggle that is still ongoing,
that I am able to begin
to stand on the foundation
of all that School and Work represents.
This is where my thankfulness resides.
Because it is the process of seeing myself
in the eyes and I's of you,
my fellow students,
that I am able to begin
to shed that which false in me
and hopefully begin
to be filled with that which higher.
~J
