so i was at the sec tournament final today – i saw fans of all teams – i had to wait until nearly the end for mizzou – uga was hard – so was vandy (billy) – but the one i missed??? yep, a&m

“the closer” – to cap the school year and to prepare for baseball – and b/c it was shockingly in at the library when they had said it wasn’t (most important part of this), i read a book about the yankees’ now retired closer, mariano rivera – rivera is a great example of the case that if you do the right things enough times, things will break your way – he came up from absolutely nothing and became perhaps the most dominate pitcher of his era – in his words, by God’s graces and blessings – it’s the rare athlete that believes this – most attribute their abilities to their work ethic – or skill – rivera just admits God was with him

this being summertime, i’m now working on my musicals – “joseph and the technicolor dreamcoat” is pretty awesome so far – go, go jo indeed:)

enjoy week 1 of break

maf

happy sunday greetings!!!

“creative inc.” – we’ll do a bit from the book – but a book by one of the founders of pixar has to be pretty good on creativity, right??? and it was – including the bit in the subject header – one of my favorite analogies was to sailing – that if you love sailing and you get out there and find it shocking that there are waves and tough seas, it’s like why in the world were you wanting to sail in the first place? in the same way, most of things we love to do we also find troubling at times

“nine make that ten make that nine habits of successful people” – funny tweets by steve martin – made me want to set up a twitter account

remember, we all want copies of the princess sarah elizabeth book – http://www.amazon.com/The-Princess-Sarah-Elizabeth-Chronicles/dp/1499339917/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1400447435&sr=8-1&keywords=princess+sarah+elizabeth

happy last week of school

maf

story is in joshua 10 – i’d forgotten completely about God throwing hail at the other army – that’s a difficulty to overcome:)

“hollow city” – book two in ms. pengrine’s home for peculiar children – much better than the first book – i know series aren’t my usual recommendation – i don’t like to read them from others b/c there’s such a time investment – but i would recommend the series now – particularly b/c it’s a trendy series and will likely lead to movies – anyway, good reading – look forward to book 3

“born standing up” – this was a good week for reading b/c i had two books i really enjoyed – this one was by a former comic – steve martin – very insightful – good book about how a creative mind adjusts to the world – i passed it along to my mother – who read it in a day – i guess she’s the top reading in the family after all:)

“season of saturdays” – book on why college football is important/worth watching/significant – by a Penn State guy – who’s definitely not an alabama guy – at all – period – that said, i enjoyed that some of the classic stories from alabama are actually a part of other traditions – like things that have been ascribed to bear – to the program – have also been told at other schools – which just makes their origins that much murkier

remember: no journals this week – just an incredibly tough final that destroyed a forest of trees when i ran the copier friday

maf

ah, the wisdom of first graders at the snack table…

“the agent” by steinberg – we’re going to do an activity from the book steinberg used to do with the athletes he’d represent – i actually did the activity with the fifth graders at EHES friday – so they can tell you how terrible it was – anyway, steinberg ruled the world of agents for a while – and then alcoholism cost him his agency – and his family – and he’s now working to get that all back – he’s incredibly bright – highly gifted – so it was a good read about the dangers of being the smartest person in the room

“players first” by john calipari – coach butcher’s kind of book – b/c he’s the head coach at UK – i enjoyed reading it – calipari is not afraid to speak is mind – i found it cool that he spend as many pages on his championship team two years ago as he did the team that “failed” to make it out of the first round of the NIT last year – b/c in basketball, like with teaching, when you work with youth, they’re so sensitive sometimes than when things get bad, it can be hard to reverse that trend – no matter what you try

enjoy testing – no, you don’t have journals this week

maf