ANCIENT&
not so ancient
WISDOM
offering a weekly positive perspective
June
10, 2004
It
is good to have an end to
journey towards,
but it is the journey that
matters, in the end.
- Ursula K Le Guin (1929 - )
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin, author and poet, was born on October
21, 1929 in Berkley, California. Her father, Alfred
Kroeber, was an anthropologist, and her mother, Theodora, a
writer of children's stories. They were intellectual
refugees from war-torn Europe. It was their extensive
library and storytelling around the campfire at their summer
home in California's Napa Valley that nurtured her talent.
At the age of 11, she submitted a piece to Astounding
Science Fiction magazine (which later became
"Analog") that was rejected.
"The
only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerant
uncertainty: not knowing what comes next." - Ursula
K Le Guin
In
1947, she entered Radcliffe College to study literature and
earned a BA. She continued her studies in Romance
Literature at Columbia University, where she earned an M.A.
in 1952 and a Fulbright Scholarship. Onboard the Queen Mary
in 1953, as part of her journey to study in France, she met
Charles Le Guin. They married in Paris a few months later.
They first moved to Macon, Georgia and finally settled in
Portland, Oregon. The have three children: Elisabeth,
Caroline and Theodore and are now grandparents.
"If
you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful.
Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and
rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you
lose the pattern."
-
Ursula K Le Guin
Her
first published piece of fiction was a short story in Amazing
Stories called "April in Paris". She
has taught at Mercer University, the University of Idaho,
and Stanford University. Ursula K Le Guin writes children's
books, poems, essays, short stories, and novels. She has won
five Nebula Awards for her science fiction writing.
"Love
doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like
bread, remade all the time, made new."
-
Ursula K Le Guin
Business
is a part of life and the principles of life apply. Picture
the result you want to help you through the difficult tasks,
expect the unexpected, and "make new" the love
you have in what you do.
Wishing
you great and continued success!
Sincerely,
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