Preamble 14: “Well, Lyle”

There was a comic strip called Animal Crackers that had a panel that Gail (Jardine) and I cut out and saved years and years ago. This particular one had Lyle the Lion and one of his friends (can’t remember which one) standing outside at night on a hill. As I remember it, Lyle looks up to the vast and starry heavens and cries out “What does it all mean?”

His companion says “Well, Lyle, first of all . . . ”

Even though, as has become evident, Buddhism leaked early on into my written work, it kept an ecological and hermeneutic disguise in much of my teaching, and even those disguises were often suppressed or mediated in classes on Early Childhood and Elementary School Curriculum, practicum courses and practicum supervision in schools. Graduate courses in Interpretive Research Methods were comparatively straightforward.