As I was preparing to retire from teaching at the University of Minnesota Duluth, I looked around at the thousands of books on the shelves in my office and said aloud to the student who was sitting there with me, “What am I going to do with all of this knowledge?” What would become of all the insights, perspectives, and wisdom I had gleaned over the years from these thinkers and writers, many of whom had shaped my life and my being in the world? For years I had been passing the wisdom along to generation after generation of students. Now where would it go?