Where is your mind? Where is it on a Saturday morning, rolling out bed, grabbing for your phone, scrolling through your email? Where is it when you’re driving through campus? Where is your mind when you’ve lost your focus? When you’ve lost your purpose? When your phone won’t stop beeping and your calendar keeps growing?
It’s time to challenge your mind—to dance.
Who: Anyone in the Bucknell community
What: A challenge to “unplug” and read without any electronic interruptions or distractions for several consecutive hours
When: Saturday, September 28, 2024
Where: Anywhere! (A few reserved campus locations will be shared with those who register.)
If you want to step out of your comfort zone, try a . . .
Book by a Black male author
Book by a non-U.S. author
Book by Toni Morrison
Book on Arts
BANNED Book
Book with a one-word title
Book on Black health
Book by a queer author
Book of poetry
Book from the Griot Institute Library
Need a book? Email us at
griot@bucknell.edu
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history’s rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.“
– Toni Morrison, “The Dancing Mind”