工作上的轉變,生活變得簡單淨靜,家住大埔梅樹坑,每天定時帶愛犬外出,走過都是鳥語花香的小徑,吃過簡單的午飯,不是直往大學圖書館裡鑽,就是埋首家中伏案於書中。
這段日子遠離煩囂、除了間或與三數友人閒話家常,甚少應酬;因為應付開銷,接了四門教課的邀請,間中在教學中仍能享受所學所識,算是在低沉處一處良方。
為了應付下學期在大學教「宗教與生態」,從圖書館借來大批書籍,預備在09年的最後一個月,把心思意念都埋在當中,盼若有所得,說不定或能寫點東西出來。
I think the concept of boundary might be the fitting symbol for the whole of my personal & intellectual development. At almost every point, I have had to stand between alternative possibilities of existence, to be completely at home in neither and to take no definitive stand against either ... This position is fruitful for thought, but it is dangerous in life ... This disposition & its tension have determined both my destiny & my work. (Paul Tillich, On the Boundary)