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Buffs One Read 2025-2026: Callings

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Whether you have found your calling, are on the journey, or have lost your way, may the heroes of this book...help remind you of the importance of finding meaning in your work. May their words help give you the strength to listen to that still, small voice inside—that voice which can help you discover the work that you were born to do.

--Dave Isay, Callings

 

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We've designed some prompts to help students, faculty, and all of the CU community to engage with the 2025 Buffs OneRead. These questions may be posed to an entire class, to small groups, to online communities, or as personal reflective prompts. The questions sampled here focus on reader experience and connection. For more discussion prompts and facilitation tips, or to join the conversation, please join the Buffs OneRead Canvas community course: Callings.

 

Discussion questions

How did you experience the book?

Was there a particular anecdote or story that immediately drew you in? Why might that be?

What does the word calling mean to you?

Which of the chapters immediately drew you in and why?

Was there a passage that struck you and stayed with you after you finished reading? 

What was most surprising or intriguing to you? What aspects did you find difficult to understand?

Reflecting on the book, have your perspectives, views, or beliefs shifted? If so, how? 

After reading the book, what do you find yourself curious about? 

After reading the book do you feel compelled to take any action or a desire to impact any change? 

Reflect & Create

These writing or creative expression prompts might be used for formal assignments or informal exercises. For more reflective and creative activity prompts, please join the Buffs OneRead community course: Callings.

 

How would you define a “calling”? Do you feel called to something, work or otherwise? What about it sparked your interest? If you were to visualize or describe the paths, influences, and inspirations that led you there, how would you express that? Consider creating a map or a timeline.

 

Several of the storytellers talk about losing track of time when they are immersed in their work. Their passion places them in a state of flow. What activities or actions bring you a similar calm, quiet,  and deep attention. How would you express that sensation?

 

Callings is full of inspiring stories and individuals. Did you feel particularly moved or inspired by any of them? Consider composing a letter to one of the storytellers. Draw from the text to give examples of what struck you and how their story has shifted your thinking or impacted you in some way. Consider what questions you’d ask them if you were able to meet them. Consider what you might like to share with the storyteller.

 

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