handwritten on September 28, 2019
This morning I woke up to a bit of sun, a drizzle and a perfect rainbow making an arch right over our apartment. On my run today I was pondering life as I normally do, and I saw the most beautiful picture as I was passing by. It was one of those pictures that was a moving picture, with real people, but I passed by so quickly, I just made a quick picture stamp with my mind to remember the moment.
If I'm thinking back to the photograph in my head now, I can see the tiny Italian restaurant with a table outside. A young boy is sitting at the table and sitting across from him at a tiny circular table is most likely his grandfather. They are talking a bit, but it is clear his grandfather is...
handwritten on September 27, 2019
Rally sons of Notre Dame:Sing her glory and sound her fame,Raise her Gold and BlueAnd cheer with voices true:Rah, rah, for Notre DameWe will fight in ev-ry game,Strong of heart and true to her nameWe will ne'er forget herAnd will cheer her everLoyal to Notre Dame
Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame,Wake up the echoes cheering her name,Send a volley cheer on high,Shake down the thunder from the sky.What though the odds be great or smallOld Notre Dame will win over all,While her loyal sons are marchingOnward to victory.
The beauty about this fight song is whether or not you are a Notre Dame fan, the music and the cadence of this fight song is felt just about everywhere when it is played. My...
handwritten on September 26, 2019
Today was probably one of my favorite lunch bunch conversations of all time. Childhood has much wisdom (this is for sure.) I think as a society we are really judgemental when it comes to this word "purpose." We just are. We think our purpose is better than another person's purpose. We believe we have more to give. We believe our status and what we do dictates our purpose. Truth is, after today's conversation, it was just another realization about how children are just that much more full of wisdom than adults. Truth is, we all have the same amount of purpose in this lifetime. No purpose is too great or too small and certainly individuals who see their purpose as greater-well they aren't...
handwritten on September 25, 2019
I was talking with a music teacher today about life lessons and school in particular. She told me a story she taught today in her classroom which I viewed as somewhat of a parable. A great lesson of whimsy and so I felt inclined to share.
She placed her three students in three different positions in the room. There was a music stand positioned at the corner of the room. The first student was so close to the stand he could reach it. The second student was just a few steps away from the first student and the final student was all the way across the room. She gave each student a task and that was to touch the same stand. They could only do so using two steps.
The first student looked at her...
handwritten on September 24, 2019
If you think about the phrase "if" there is so much undue potential. Take the sentence: I had a bad day. Okay, now place the word "if" in front of it. Now it reads: "If you have a bad day...." Notice the trailing off? Notice now the independent clause turns into a dependent clause and that dependent clause cannot stand by itself. Why? It depends on something else holding it up. And that something else is...love and hope.
You see, hope allows you to look at life with a dependent clause. Place "If" in front of absolutely any phrase, and you realize you always have another option to grow and to be better and that option provides hope. "I dislike my current position" becomes "If I dislike my...
