{"id":8191,"date":"2011-07-25T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/news_blogs\/john\/?p=8191"},"modified":"2023-12-21T13:49:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T18:49:53","slug":"my-wife-my-coo-and-a-director-perspectives-on-my-sabbatical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2011\/07\/25\/my-wife-my-coo-and-a-director-perspectives-on-my-sabbatical\/","title":{"rendered":"My Wife, My COO, and a Director: Perspectives on My Sabbatical"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 34 of 37 in the series Sabbatical<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision<\/em>
for the limits of the world.<\/em><\/p>Arthur Schopenhauer<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Schopenhauer was, as far as I can tell from a quick Internet search, a rather dreary philosopher who wrote that emotional, physical, and sexual desires can never be fulfilled, so he was all about negating those desires, which leads to a pretty ascetic lifestyle. I have a more positive view of God’s beautiful work in creating humanity! However, I think he is right that the tendency is to believe that what you think, is in fact, reality. It is only when you put yourself in circumstances where your view of reality can be challenged that you become awake to the greater possibilities that exist in this world. In hindsight, that was what my sabbatical was really all about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this post I’ve come to the end of writing about my sabbatical. I am sure from time to time I will refer to something or other from my sabbatical, but this is the last detailed report about it. I have three guest contributors who will each contribute a few thoughts on how my sabbatical touched them: Larry Nelson, the board member who helped me come up with the basic outline of the sabbatical; Heather Card, the COO of CCCC who acted in my stead while I was away; and my wife, who encouraged and supported me in actually doing it. But first, a few final reflections of my own:<\/p>\n\n\n\n