[Dialogue] "Lonely Place"

[McCabe, Diann A]

Maybe it's the times we live in, or maybe it's my having just finished grading research papers, but it seems a bit worrisome for the BOD of a society of health system pharmacy [workers] to proclaim that they are "not called to be safe."  Just a thought.
 
Diann McCabe, San Marcos, TX

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Thanks, Elaine. 
 
The existentialists (though Heidegger denied he was one) were all over it: "no longer/not yet" -- along with Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, and Paul. It must have come out of being itself. (We could read Heidegger's BEING AND TIME for ecclesiola/seminary next quarter.)
 
So, JW, you're right. It is about "pharmacy," not "marxie commies." Sorry.
 
John C.
 
Attachment (see below -- forgot we can't send attachments): "Lonely Place," to find out how the wedgeblade relates to pharmacy (and any other occupation that can become vocation). And thank you, Mary Lou, wherever you are, and your RS-I pedagoue, whoever s/he was.

 

In conclusion, I would like to share a few words that Henri Manasee, CEO & President of ASHP [American Society of Health-System Pharmacy], read before installing our BOD last year at the Sagamore.

 

Leaders are called to stand

in that lonely place

between the no longer and the not yet

and intentionally make decisions

that will bind, forge, move

and create history.

 

We are not called to be popular,

we are not called to be safe,

we are not called to follow.

 

We are the ones called to take risks,

we are the ones called to change attitudes;

to risk displeasures,

we are the ones called to gamble our lives

for a better world.

 

 

These words were first spoken over 35 years ago at the ASHP House of Delegates [Maryland] by Mary Lou Anderson, in April 1970. Some things never change as a new generation of pharmacy leadership prepares to:

 

Shape the Future of Pharmacy

 

 

~Journal remarks by Bruce Pleskow, President, p. 3 http://www.nyschp.org/pdfs/marchapril05.pdf 

 

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