Eric Dozier ’92 MTS ’96 came from a tiny town in Tennessee and had all the life-changing experiences one would expect at Duke, but he returned to the music of his roots as he developed his work. In “Instant Satori” he shares his riveting and powerful story.Įpisode 3: Call and Response. More, though, he had deeper realization moments before that injury: when he realized that he was about to die in a plane crash. Blake Tedder, communications and engagement coordinator for Duke Forest, suffered a significant burn injury and learned that there’s a lot more to surviving a major burn than blisters and maybe a scar. People talk about facing harsh realities, but few among us can share the kind of realization you face when reality reaches its harshest. In “Callie Keeps the Music” she tells us all about it.Įpisode 2: Instant Satori. But early in her career a patient taught her something different. She thought that meant that she had to give up her practice of music. She initially went to college for music, but soon realized that her future lay along a more scientific path. Growing up, Beasley excelled at sports, at music, and at science. Our first realization story comes from Callie Beasley DPT ’19. We hope you like them, and we hope to hear your thoughts - and your own stories of realization.Įpisode 1: Callie Keeps the Music. A few of those stories came to us as spoken words, not as writing or images. The 2020 Special Issue of Duke Magazine has as its theme “realization.” We asked alumni, students, faculty, and staff to share with us their stories of realization. Sometimes it comes all at once sometimes a realization emerges over days, months, decades.īut we’ve all realized something we all have a story of that thing, that moment, that change, when we finally understood. Some increased awareness, an understanding: you’ve just realized something. Everyone knows the experience: you read something, you meet someone, you experience something, and suddenly you get it.