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from a question poet Mary Oliver posed in “The Summer Day” that I think we all need to ask ourselves: “What are you going to do with your one wild and precious life?” Wild and precious. Think about it. Life is wild – thunderstorms, war, grizzly bears, heavy metal, the 14,400-foot volcano behind us that claims the lives of experienced climbers every year, wild animals, wild flowers, wildfires. But life is precious too: the intricacy of the rhododendrons all over campus, the gift of love, the fingers

worked with PLU’s Office of Advancement to identify funds for the project. PLU donor Carol Sheffels Quigg made a significant gift toward the construction, and the rest of the funding came from other individual donors, retired faculty members and grants from the Murdock Trust and the Norcliffe Foundation. The new greenhouse will be a very welcome asset to the PLU campus, Quigg told PLU’s student newspaper, The Mooring Mast. “I come from a farm background and am very mindful of the extreme importance

very specific academic goals: write music that exercises something they know they are weak in; write pieces that they know will be useful in their portfolios or future careers; write digital music for their computers to play, or write music for friends thus ensuring performance as soon as this is over. This unexpected “timeout” can be a gift if we choose to think of it that way: what can I do right now, right here, that I would not normally have thought to do? What shall I choose to do that will