Archive for December 25th, 2007
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
Cover Shot
Alta-Tollhaus Kirsch makes the back cover of the GSDCA-WDA Newsletter Sept-Oct 2007.
Kirsch is owned by Garth and Michele.
Remember you don’t have to be on a cover of a magazine to send pictures….HINT, HINT!
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
Excellence
In Terry Stanford’s final address to the Faculty of Duke University, circa, 1984:
“Everybody is seeking excellence, or claims to be. I sometimes think we have misused the word or weakened it by overuse. Excellence is not a brand of cheese. It is not even a place. It is more like a
path or a guiding star. A single professor in a classroom in a small and otherwise inadequate college may seek excellence with as much validity as does the total institution of, say, the Johns
Hopkins University. Every individual, every institution, can seek excellence in performance. That does not suggest by any means that they will all end at the same place, because excellence is not a
destination. It is a spirit; it is a determination; it is a set of personal and institutional values…. “James “Terry” Stanford, President of Duke University
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
Christmas Letter from Chopper
What a surprise Christmas pictures of Chopper and her beau Coke, along with a letter.
I am so proud of Chopper, first leaning to read, and now mastering the word program on the computer! These GSD are so smart!
Julie
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
L-O-V-E
From the movie “Akeelah and the Bee” a wonderful feel good movie.
“You know that feeling where everything feels right? Where you don’t have to worry about tomorrow or yesterday, where you feel safe and know you’re doing the best you can? There’s a word for that,
it’s called love. L-O-V-E.”
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
Pillars of the Earth
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
I have read only a small number of the books that Oprah has put on her book club list (aside from the classics). A few I have liked: Where the Heart is, What Looks Like Crazy on
an Ordinary Day, & The Poisonwood Bible. And then there was Vinegar Hill, Here on Earth, these books, well, they didn’t entice me to read any more from Oprah’s
list. Oprah endorses The Pillars of the Earth as a book different from the type of book she would normally read. Additionally it is historical fiction, a genre I enjoy.
So I decide why not…
The Pillars of the Earth, is a long book, yet at times I felt the author was rushing, I wanted him to slow down, not to skim over the years and events. So what if the book would end up
being 1,200 pages instead of 600 plus. This is a great read.
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
Today…
Today, I do not wish for you a tree with wrapped gifts beneath it
Today, I do not wish for you a big magnificant gift.
Today, I wish for you the gift of love.
Today, I wish for you a day of ordinary miracles.
A kindness from a stranger, a smile, a hand.
A call from an old friend.
A kind […]
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
The moments between the lines…
“Life doesn’t have a script, movies do, that is why we love them.”
from a HBO promo