"In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." –John 16:33

Day: August 20, 2008

A Nice Article

Today I must write a post about an article that I have read in the past week.

Tuesday before last, my beloved piano teacher gave me an inspirational article to read. She tends to be a bit feel-good, mushy at times, so I just put it in the inside of my piano notebook and forgot about it. Yesterday I remembered it just in time, and sped-read it on the way to my lesson. Mrs. B likes to quiz her students on such things, and I had to be prepared.

It was about Billy Mills, the Native American man who famously won the 10,000 Meter Run in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. It was really quite a nice article. Mr. Mills told about a time when his father took him fishing soon after the death of his mother. Mills was angry inside, and his dad knew it, so he told Mills that he needed to have a dream, or set a goal instead of keeping all that anger inside. He also told Mills that his creator gave him his life as a gift and the way that he lived his life was a gift back to his creator. Shortly thereafter, Mills’ father died, and he took to running. At first Mills wasn’t fast, but he really enjoyed the sport so he kept at it and got faster and faster. At one point in his life, he was considering suicide, but he remembered what his father had told him, and pushed on to achieve his goal. In 1964 he qualified for the U.S. Track and Field team and the rest is history.

Mrs. B asked me what I took away from the article. I told her I really liked what Mr. Mills’ dad said to him about dreams and our life being a gift back to our creator. In the end, I didn’t think that it was mushy at all. I thought it was truly inspirational.

Letters and lazy cats

I have written about Marvin Olasky, the editor of World Magazine before. Well, a few weeks ago, Kelly sent him an email telling him how much we enjoy reading his articles and little bit herself and her plans. Not only did he take the time to write a very nice personal email back to her, World published part of her letter in the Letters to the Editor section of their magazine. This is the second time Kelly has gotten a letter published there. We were all quite excited. Here it is in all its glory.

On another note, there were two posts on education at the World Magazine Blog. The first was on a book titled Real Education written by Charles Murray about, among other things, who should go to college, who should not go to college, and why. Charles Murray is the co-author of The Bell Curve, a very, very enlightening book about intelligence that got him onto the bad side of many in the pseudo-intellectual, politically correct crowd. The second is how the Dallas, Texas government school system is changing the rules so “that students who flunk tests, blow off homework, and/or miss assignment deadlines will be allowed to make up work without penalty.” Amazing. We highly recommend the World Mag blog.

May 6, 2004 – Getting ready for Mothers Day
May 7, 2004 – Mothers Day weekend plans


We suffered a great loss in our ongoing battle with the cats. Kiwi and Rubix just do not seem to have the level of respect for cleanliness and decorum that Lorena demands. Lorena put a brand new table covering on our table for the first time last night. Rubix felt like she needed to try it out.


Rubix defies Lorena

Powered by WordPress & Theme by Anders Norén