ABSTRACT
This chapter is written as a tribute to the Tove we know and love: philosopher, professor, writer, speaker, gardener, farmer, challenger of assumptions, and loving friend.
The perspective of this article will be based on the spirit of all that we have learned from Tove. For example, pre-Tove: • we believed in the separation of the personal and the professional; now, we
believe the personal and professional are parts of the whole which cannot be separated;
• we believed in linear-speak and the use of academic-ese; now, we believe in finding our own unique voice and crafting it to be meaningful for others;
• we believed in leaving our passion at home; now, we believe in living our passions;
• we believed that challenging assumptions would make us vulnerable girls; now, we believe that challenging assumptions makes us strong women;
• we believed that ambiguous contradictions should be clarified, cleaned up, or crushed; now, we believe that ambiguous contradictions are inherent in life and often can become a path which beckons to new ideas, insights, and more complex understandings;
• we believed that chaos was bad; now, we believe that chaos can be creative and eventually, productive;
• we believed that utopias were unattainable; now, we believe there are many utopias.
