Day 8.

Sometimes I don’t know what is working through my mind until it decides to reveal itself.  Today was one of those days.  And once my mind told me that I  was thinking about transitions, I started to see them in everything.

After flying over clouds for hours this sudden clearing presented.  I thought it was cool how suddenly it changed.  And then, within seconds I could see another transition coming as the plains turned into forested mountains.  Then after that, I saw transitions in everything.

So, the reflective side of me started uncovering why I was focused on transitions. Now that I am writing about it, it seems obvious to me.  We are facing a serious change in the way that our campus and all of the campuses in the University of Wisconsin System are going to operate as a result of the proposed governor’s budget massively cutting education.   But that is only one transition we I see coming.

After working for years on developing a new major, we are within spitting distance of success.  My role will now include program director.  Transitions.

Sometimes we don’t want to go through the transitions that are in front of us, often they are out of our control.  But the true measure of character is not in what has happened to you, but how you have responded to it.  I am facing transitions, UW-Stout is facing transitions, and education in general is facing transitions.  This was inevitable.  Now we just have to accept that change is upon us, and figure out the best way to come through it different and stronger.