What/Concern

What?

• Anticipation
• Concern
• Predicaments
• Possibility
• The lore of life

Concern

We often worry whether we will measure up in meeting a challenge we face. It involves an inner uncertainty whether our abilities will enable us to achieve what we feel we can and should accomplish. We look inward and feel concern, moved to attend to our capacity, to heighten and perfect it. The concern involves a moving feeling that a difficult form of acting needs to rise to a demanding standard of accomplishment. Here are eight concerns to study, for they are pervasive in our lived experience.

• Expressing meaning
• Directing desire
• Exercising autonomy
• Empowering knowledge
• Upholding values
• Overcoming alienation
• Understanding difference
• Sharing commonalities.