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Quote for Monday, Feb. 12, 2007
"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." -Walt Whitman
"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." -Walt Whitman
Zen and the art of the one-match fire. Did anyone see an angel?
Our first overnight, Winter, 2007: Kung-Fu and Moss Eyebrows!
"There are two kinds of adventurers; those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won’t." -Rabindranath Tagore
This weekend was our first overnight trip together. Take a few minutes and reflect on this unique experience; not many high school students are given the opportunity to head into the mountains for two days with classmates and instructor. When you look back on this experience I’d like you to rank, in order of their… Read more »
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." -Oliver Wendell Holmes Nature Awareness Hike, 1/26/2007
"The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives." -Native American Proverb
Take a moment and think about our action project. We’ll only have six or seven weeks to work on whatever issue we select and there are only eight of us. Before we begin, I’d like you to talk about how we can keep people motivated and on task for the duration of the project. What… Read more »
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it. He who accepts evil without protesting it is really cooperating with it." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another." -Adlai Stevenson