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Wild Hope Project ~ Exploring Vocaton at PLU

Wild Hope invites you to ponder this question...

"What will you do with your one wild and precious life?"*

»  So Ask Yourself...


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What Does the Search for Your Vocation Look Like? An Essay Addressed to Students

Wild Hope as the Project Title:

Also like hope, our vocations are not merely goals out there in the future; we live inside our hopes and vocations, right in them, right now.

Vocation Made Real


SummerAn Environmentalist Proclamation

The Talloires Declaration

Pugwash: Student Pledge

The UN Charter: SOCIAL DIALOGUE ON VOCATIONAL TRAINING >>International standards

Please send us your story of vocation. What does vocation mean to you? How is that reflected in your life? Please email us what you would like to see posted here. wildhope@plu.edu




*From Sharon Daloz Park, in her address at Pacific Lutheran University, September 3, 2003, paraphrasing the last line of the poem by Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day,"/New and Selected Poems/ (Boston MA: Beacon Press, 1992): "Tell me, what do you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

Mt. Rainier
Photo by Jordan Hartman
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makah
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Students learn tradition about the Makah Culture during their J-term off-campus course.


Interviews & Personal Statements

Joel Zylstra "You Will Never Be the Same"

Laine Walters "What Happened in Geneva..."

Laine Walters, interviewing others "What Is This Wild Hope Project?"

Jim Martin-Schramm "Protecting the World"