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Starting the day

by Blake Sunshine on February 7, 2011

“There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral…But I won’t have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous…more extravagant and bright. We are…raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.”- Annie Dillard

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2011

January 1, 2011

My mantra for 2011: “Life is short, but by God’s grace, for most of us it is also long. This gives us a great deal of time to follow Samuel Beckett’s famous imperative to fail, fail again, and fail better. To succeed, we have to fail. To fail, we have to try.”- Kathryne Young

Things I loved about 2010

December 28, 2010

I loved 2010. Ups, downs and every single minute of 2010 was fun, engaging and a huge learning experience for me. Here are some of the highlights of the things I loved about 2010: 1. Starting 2010 off with a bang- My Dad and I headed to Pasadena to watch the Longhorns play in the [...]

Being Enthusiastic

August 29, 2010

“How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it.”- Jim Valvano

I’ve made a lot of messes

June 20, 2010

Over the past 23 years of my life I’ve made quite a few messes. No mess as terrible as the BP oil spill, but let’s just say that I didn’t always make it easy for my parents when I was growing up. I can remember a night where I had to create a diorama of a native [...]

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