As a Rotarian for over 35 years (the last 19 with perfect attendance), a little less than half my age, you would think after years of travel on World Campus Afloat, Fulbright grants to Taiwan, Republic of Georgia (2) and Mongolia, your point of view of the world would have been fixed long ago. Not true! Recently I joined Rotary eClub of the Southwest, USA (with members all over the world) (I am the first Texan but we also have one member from Japan, India and the Marshall Islands) and Rotary Global History. My view has expanded and contracted all in the same instance. It has expanded to a flat world point of view (information, thoughts of freedom, communications, images and stories) where borders now hold no barrier to ideas and visions. Also it has contracted to the place where I see the world from a satellite point of view, one place, one globe, one people.
My creative work shows this change in viewpoint. I will not call it “perspective” because that has meaning that links it to the Renaissance- on the ground and one-on-one to an horizon. A Rotarian thinks immediately of Paul Harris’ and Bill Boyd’s words that we…
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