Christmas for me has always been a time for reflection.
This Christmas, I have been reflecting on college teaching as a profession… and my experiences over the years.
It was a fascinating realization that I was a student all my life and never considered becoming a teacher… until graduate school.
It was there that I discovered Marshall McLuhan’s book, Understanding Media… and my subject-matter quickly became “media revolutions, and how they were changing everything.”
As a teacher’s assistant, I quickly found that the best teachers were those living and growing with their subject-matter.
I also found that teaching this way would mean I would never teach the same class in the same way twice.
My 2022 Christmas reflections made me very happy. I chose to become a college teacher living my subject-matter… and this is why “living your subject-matter (or your passion)” could become your pathway to happiness in 2023
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Larry D. Lauer 
Thanks Larry! Purdy
Good to pause and reflect. Glad you became a teacher!
PS We read McLuhan’s book my freshman year in a journalism class. I guess it had the opposite effect on me as I switched my major to astronomy and later became a librarian! Best wishes to you and Sterling for the New Year!