I will be taking a break until the New Year.
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This is the view of our entire household going off into storage in a BigSteelBox. As of July 1, 2013 the Harapnuiks are homeless once again. The last time we were homeless was when we moved back from Texas in 2010 and spent part of June traveling and most of July at the Trestle Mountain Bike Park in WinterPark Colorado. We finally made it up to Edmonton in August and stayed with family because we were not able to move into our rental property until the end of September.
Technically we do not have a home so we can say we are homeless but we do have places to stay so we aren’t out on the street. Marilyn, Levi and Caleb are spending the month at Silver Creek Lodge at Silver Star Mountain just outside Vernon where the boys will be spending their days downhill biking and their nights licking their wounds from the days events.
Marilyn will be keeping the boys patched up and fed and should be able to catch up on some reading, paperwork and start searching for our new home. It would make it easier for her if we had some sense of where we were going to end up.
Marilyn and the boys will be spending part of August with family in Chilliwack and Abbotsford and then the latter part of August and September in Whistler where the boys will continue their downhill biking. There will also be a trip back to Edmonton and southern Alberta and BC at the end of August because Caleb may be getting his braces off and the boys have the final down hill race of the year at Fernie.
I am also not really homeless but am renting a VERY small room and am sharing a kitchen and bath with two other people in a small rental house just off the BCIT Burnaby campus where I have a temporary contract to provide Instructional Development Consultation until the end of November.
We are hoping to have a better sense of what my work prospects will be by early September and are planning to rent a house in some part of the lower mainland of BC to stay close to all the biking resources in and around Whistler, Squamish and the North Shore.
I haven’t heard this song for MANY years but after reviewing several emails regarding my resignation I thought it would be appropriate to post it and the lyric. Lets hope the dreams that I started at Concordia are strong enough to continue with out the dreamer.
The Cooper Brothers — The Dream Never Dies
[CHORUS]
The dream never dies
Just the dreamer
The dream never dies
If it’s strong
The song never dies
Just the singer
So come on, everybody
Sing along
Some men dream of fame
And some of fortune
Some men dream about
Time gone by
All men dream of someone
They’d like to become
Cause without dreams inside us
Yeah, without dreams
How would we all get by
[Repeat CHORUS]
The dream never dies
The dream never dies
So, come on, everybody
Dream along
Some men dream of Heaven
And some of the Lord above
Some men dream about
Pie in the sky
All men dream of happiness
And all men dream of love
Cause without dreams to guide us
Yeah, without dreams
How would we all get by
[Repeat CHORUS]
The dream never dies
The dream never dies
So, come on, everybody
Dream along
[Repeat CHORUS]
The dream never dies
The dream never dies
So, come on, everybody
Dream along
[Repeat CHORUS to fade]
The following email was sent to all Concordia faculty and staff. Dr. Krispin outlines the circumstances leading to this decision so I will simply let his official notice stand:
Dear Colleagues,
Last night Dr. Dwayne Harapnuik tendered his resignation as Vice President Academic at Concordia to me, which I have accepted and will forward to our Board of Governors. In this letter Dwayne reflected upon his reason for coming to Concordia, which was to be an agent of change in order to position Concordia to be a thriving university for the future and develop the best learning environment students could have anywhere. This he sought to do with diligence and dedication, albeit finding himself torn between two points of focus: he was given charge over the student services portfolio and directing the academic program of the institution. The divergent interests of student needs and services competed with those of the faculty. Ultimately, Dwayne now recognizes that in his desire to improve the student experience, faculty interests were not always in the fore-front. And while amazing progress was made for our students, progress for our academic planning was much slower. Now, with the advent of a unionized faculty environment, Dwayne felt his goal to be a change-agent at Concordia was going to be on hold for the foreseeable future, certainly on the academic front. To be clear: Dwayne emphasized that he believes that this resignation is in the best interest of Concordia at this time; this is not a career move, but making way so that which has been sown can continue to grow.
I personally know that Dwayne is tremendously gifted, has a passion for student learning and engagement, and will realize these aspirations elsewhere, even as he did at Abelene Christian University and indeed began to do here at Concordia. I pray that our Lord will bless him richly as he embarks on another path, perhaps at another insitution where his talents may be engaged fruitfully.
In His Service,
Gerald Krispin
