In the Oneness of Time: The Education of a Diviner by William Douglas Horden

In the Oneness of Time: The Education of a Diviner by William Douglas Horden

Author:William Douglas Horden
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: OCC005000
Publisher: Larson Publications
Published: 2015-11-15T16:00:00+00:00


FORTY-SIX

1974

“I like you, I really do,” said the program manager of the group homes. “But you’re just too young for me to hire you as house parents. Some of the boys are just a few years younger than you. And your wife is expecting in six months. It’s just too risky.”

“I understand,” I replied, standing to go. “Thanks for considering it.”

“Like I say, I like you,” he repeated, shuffling through my application packet. He paused to read a page.

“This letter of recommendation written by Harry Green,” he said. “That’s not the same Harry Green who was the radio host in Boulder, is it?”

I nodded yes.

“I used to listen to him all the time. He had an amazing mind.” He re-read the letter.

“This is quite a recommendation,” he said.

That is how we got the job running the group home for troubled boys, which led to our running the shelter home for abused and neglected children, which led to designing and administering social service programs for at-risk families—all of which allowed us to be well used by life for the next twenty years.

The interconnectedness of all things, I was learning, is not an abstract concept.



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