Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Our Blog Has Moved....
With the launch of our new website a few weeks ago, our blog is now integrated into our site. We're excited about our new site and we encourage you to check it out! See our new website or go directly to our blog.
Friday, February 8, 2013
Groundhog's Day
Did you know? That in addition to being the humble SALI assistant / SALI teacher / ESL coordinator here in the great land of LINC North Texas, I am also a full time grad student at the University of Dallas. Our mascot is the Groundhogs (yes, I'm for real), and yes, we do go crazy for Groundhog's Day - the one day of the year that all the serious students at UD get a chance to cut back and relax. What's more, on that day of celebrating giant rodents and their shadows, there is the compulsory screening and re-screening of the movie, Groundhog Day with Bill Murray.
If you've never seen this film, your'e in for a treat. It's the story of Frank Conner, a malcontent-ed weatherman from a big city news station who is sent to Punxsutawny, PA to cover the emergence of the hollowed hog only to find that the next morning is a repeat of the day before. Frank seems doomed to re-live the same day over and over until he finally gets it right (learning to speak French, play jazz piano, and fall in love). Ultimately, it's a good tale of getting a do-over on the events of life - especially when you have a love of time to kill.
But when I think of the ability to re-do everything in life, I also think of all the things you would forfeit: the errors we've made that have taught us valuable lessons, given us chance encounters, and ultimately helped to define who we are. This Groundhog's day, I'm making it a time to be grateful - grateful for mistakes and errors that have made life richer and helped to make me the person I am. As for the unknown future and worrying about mis-steps, I'll give all of that to God and let him direct my path.
Brandon
If you've never seen this film, your'e in for a treat. It's the story of Frank Conner, a malcontent-ed weatherman from a big city news station who is sent to Punxsutawny, PA to cover the emergence of the hollowed hog only to find that the next morning is a repeat of the day before. Frank seems doomed to re-live the same day over and over until he finally gets it right (learning to speak French, play jazz piano, and fall in love). Ultimately, it's a good tale of getting a do-over on the events of life - especially when you have a love of time to kill.
But when I think of the ability to re-do everything in life, I also think of all the things you would forfeit: the errors we've made that have taught us valuable lessons, given us chance encounters, and ultimately helped to define who we are. This Groundhog's day, I'm making it a time to be grateful - grateful for mistakes and errors that have made life richer and helped to make me the person I am. As for the unknown future and worrying about mis-steps, I'll give all of that to God and let him direct my path.
Brandon
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