About Me
- Gannet Girl
- Gannets are enormous and sleek creamy-white seabirds, with black wingtips, yellow heads and necks, and startlingly outlined eyes. They nest on the rocky cliffs of the European and North American coasts of the North Atlantic and, once grown, spend their days sailing across the ocean. The acrobatics by which they make their living ~ steep climbs into the air and speedy plunges straight into the sea ~ are rivaled only by those of pelicans. What better metaphor for a sweeping search of one's life choices and opportunities than a gannet extended above the waves, a regal and yet restless surveyor of the vast ocean surface? The gannet reminds us that life is an adventure in both beauty and profound unease, and that the sea itself is limitless in its textures and possibilities.
4 comments:
Hey, my dad went to Case for undergrad (Marian's dad too, of course).
my aunt went there too . . . 2 more years till her 70th reunion!
My dad would say that he went to "Western Reserve" but it's the same thing, right?
There used to be 2 separate schools: Western Reserve, a liberal arts college, and Case Institute of Technology, more of an engineering school. I'm not sure when they merged into Case Western Reserve University, but it's been several deacades. More recently, a decision has been made to scale the name back to "Case;" I'm not sure if that's happened officially yet or not.
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