Each of us has challenges we need to overcome in order to live our lives fully, richly, and successfully.  People with disabilities, like Christoph Keller who kicked off Disabilities Awareness Week on 10/26, have often learned crucial truths about how to do this. 

Now, let's learn from each other, and particularly from people with disabilities, how to fill our lives with hope, laughter, friendship, enjoyment, and accomplishment.

Please come to share, as Christoph Keller did so generously, your experiences and thoughts about how to:

• appreciate every moment in order to  each day to its fullest
• savor the meanings and value of your life, including the rough patches and even the set-backs and tragedies
• use wit and imagination to make the best of difficult situations
• master the "dance of life" -- even if you feel yourself confined by circumstances, whether within yourself, or external  
• endure and transcend the losses which all of us experience the course of our lives

Individuals with disabilities are invited to request reasonable accommodations including, but not limited to sign language interpretation, Braille or large print materials, and a campus map of accessible features. Address these requests to the Office of Access and Services for Individuals with Disabilities at (212) 678-3689, keller@tc.edu, or Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services at (212) 678-3853 V/TTY, jaech@tc.edu.

Next session: Thursday, 11/19, Topic: Forgiving - Ourselves and Others, Personal and Political.