In Trosky's Garden in Coyoacán, DF, 2002
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We all need professional colleagues who are inspiring!
At the top of the list of professionalism I have seen in a community college counselor is the author of the below image. She is emeritus faculty of our campus and El Camino College. I have been inspired by her, our interns, and my colleagues in my own department.
Look around at your colleagues and find your own role models. Below is:
Sunset Over the Queen Mary by Dr. Lisa Raufman taken on 11 Feb 2016 in Long Beach, CA, USA
The Black Madonnas of Europe: Diffusion of the African Isis, Rutgers University Press - Dr. Christopher Miller in Yale Review wrote: "The Black Madonnas of Europe: Diffusion of the African Isis: "The essays in this volume that will be of lasting value are those that show…. the changing definitions of Africa and of blackness itself.…Danita Redd offers a fascinating and persuasive thesis: that the black Madonnas of Europe are historically linked to the Egyptian goddess Isis. Good documentation makes all the difference. Redd writes: ‘The attributes and titles which capitulated the Virgin Mary into the realm of goddesshood were borrowed from the African Isis….Titles of the Virgin… are the same titles attributed to the African Isis long before the existence of Christianity.’ Linguistic and iconographic evidence makes the thesis more than plausible and quite startling.”
Hatshepsut, Journal of African Civilizations, Rutgers University Press.
Glossary for the Journal of African Civilizations: African Presence in Early Asia, 1985, Rutgers University Press.
Brain Research Institute
For approaching a year, I worked in a research lab at UCLA's Brain Research Institute. I helped with the research done for the following project. I only by accident, recently, found that I had been acknowledged for helping. It was a great learning opportunity. I still remember much of what I learned. I had taken a wonderful class in Anatomy & Physiology with the Ph.D. post doc who helped me get the position. I now apply the knowledge I learned in those days to my students at MC. I spent a couple of years, partially for just pure fun, studying chemistry, brain science, mathematics, & physiological psychology. When the opportunity arises, I am able to help some of my students learn-how-to-learn STEM. Those years & my time in the lab did not go to waste. I was approaching middle young adulthood & did not have the stamia to continue the line of study but the knowledge I put in my head is still there & it goes to good use.