Concerning ecology in counseling. Included in this diversity are students, faculty from it number of disciplines, administrators representing a variety of departments, college presidents, physical plant personnel, and university and private architects. It is often difficult to find a topic that has meaning for everyone. Some of the subscribers design them, some redesign them, most all live in spaces that have them, and all receive messages from the ones they encounter. Please enjoy the following quotes about doors.
Windows are passive, doors are active.
Through windows we glimpse what is and what happens, but when we pass through a doorway we encounter and most likely become involved in what lies beyond. Doors remain closed to tell us of our rejection of another's seclusion, doors open to welcome us or to engulf and imprison us. Doors frame our farewell or joyful reunions or tearful reconciliations, doors slam like periods at the end of sentences of anger or frustration or bewilderment, doors beckon us to a haven when the world has become too demanding or wearying or threatening and enclose us in love and warmth and familiarity, guarding us solidly from peril and weather and the unknown. They imply progress, discovery. There are few of us for whom doors do not have a deep emotional significance.