We feel these are things they can well afford.

They decided to break off the portion on salary because that part has already been decided. All the other items are still on the table.

Some districts see them as purely a money item, and they lose sight of their importance. Money for office hours needs to be gradually built into a budget.

Many students have dropped classes taught by part-timers because those professors do not have office hours. Struggling students in a class with no office hours sometimes end up falling through the cracks.

Things are not going well. Impasse is a definite possibility.

Everywhere, even in the blackest abyss, he believed one might witness the divine. The shadows and contrast―absence itself―as important as the light and marble, for one cannot exist without the other.