Name: 如果你想快樂，就要感恩。David Steindl -Rast教友的生活和教導 (If You Want to Be Happy, Be Grateful: The Life and Teachings of Brother David Steindl-Rast)
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I'm Dean of libraries here at UMass Amherst.

And I am very proud-um, pleased to welcome you today to our 19th annual fall

library fall reception here in the beautiful renovated Old Chapel building.

So for those of you who haven't been here in quite a long time,

It's absolutely gorgeous the renovation that's been done.

And as I learn a little bit about my--being fairly new here,

As I learn a little bit about UMass history,

I learned that there was in fact the very first library was in this building.

So long history and a wonderful place to be having our fall reception,

So I'd like to thank you all for joining us on this absolutely beautiful afternoon!

And also our special guests from the Network for Grateful Living.

And--welcome it's great to see you all here.

So we are pleased today to be honoring the gift of the collected papers,

and works of Brother David Steindl-Rast to our Special Collections and University Archives.

It is through gifts like these that we build our collections,

Social change and support the community of activists and scholars,

here on campus and increasingly through our digitization efforts around the world.

Now you will hear more about our plans to digitize,

many of these important papers later on through the program.

But for now I'd like to get things started with turning it over to our head of Special Collections,

- Well I can't help but be personal here.

A few years ago I was uh thinking about some friends of mine from high school,

whom I'd hadn't seen for a long time, including my closest friend.

And I happened to run into his father, who's a very well-known molecular biologist,

and I said "Have you heard from Tom lately?"

and he says "I hear from him all the time."

I said "Well I'd like to talk to Tom. I haven't talked to him in 30 years."

So I-I said I'd like to talk to-to my friend Tom,

So his father gave me his phone number and I called him up.

And Tom said "What do you do now? What do you do with yourself?"

And I said "Well I'm an archivist. That's a pretty bad thing uh."

Well you know an archivist is someone who feeds off of someone else's papers,

Basically we spend our lives reading other people's mail.

and he said "Well... for the last thirty years I've been a Buddhist monk."

And I thought "Okay. Not much different from when you were in high school."

And that was my background when about a year and a half ago,

Katie and Aaron Rubinstein came and said,

"Hey we might have an opportunity to talk to these people about the papers of a Benedictine monk."

And I thought "Well for me, what does monasticism mean?"

It means detachment and withdrawal from society.

All those things sound to me like a typical family vacation for me,

But.. in this case I thought it might be interesting to look a little further

because they were insistent that this was an interesting opportunity for us as an archive.

Just want to say for just a couple of minutes why it is an opportunity.

It's because what we specialize in in Special Collections is

And for us it means that what we don't do is document any individual single movement.

We haven't set ourselves up to document the peace movement or environmentalism.

We haven't set ourselves up to think about social justice in some limited sense.

We haven't set ourselves up to look at the way people make change politically or extra politically.

What we've done is decided to focus on the connections between and among movements.

We found pretty securely, pretty certainly,

That there's no such thing in life as a single issue activist.

if you're active in one area, you're active in another.

And it's because everybody who looks at problems in the world sees connections differently.

Everybody who acts on those problems does so understanding that to solve

to-to address one problem requires you to think about and act on other problems.

When I heard about Brother David with his background,

the second world war, surviving through Vienna in a second world war,

and finding the monastery that he wanted to live on,

for the previous 10 years, had been dreaming about living on.

And when he found that and he said "I want to live strictly by the rule of Benedict."

And that led him somehow mysteriously into Zen Buddhism.

And from there somehow mysteriously into interfaith dialogue,

into promoting social justice into civil rights,

and everything else that Brother David has been involved in.

The one thing I remember more than anything at Brother David's birthday last year in San Francisco,

was him talking about what it was like to work within the Benedictine community.

To be a Benedictine for virtually all of your adult life.

It's like a well where you dig and you dig deeper and deeper,

Until you finally get down to the waters at the bottom that connect us all.

And that for us is what we mean by social change.

And that's why Brother David is a great fit for us.

So with that, I think I pass off to Kristi.

Kristi Nelson, who is the CEO of The Network for Great--

A Network for Grateful Living, so thank you.

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