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Project365-Day 33
The word of the day is OVERWHELMWED. I just got home from school and I'm exhausted. Haven't even started on homework yet. :sigh:
Day one of the Sanger Leadership Crisis Challenge at the Ross School of Business (University of Michigan). There were graduate students from 19 schools across the University of Michigan at this competition. Here are pictures of the opening session and the teams working on their case on Thursday January 11, 2018.
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Peeked out of my kitchen window and saw this little chap on the fence. I think I may leave a camera with long lens in there in case of future opportunities... and I must clean the window!
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this is what happens when you pack. this is what it looks like when a five year old packs to move. today river found a nook of his closet he had never seen before. wearing his dog costume, he hunkered down with some books to read while i packed stuff up. this shot reminds me of me when i was a kid.
Colors!
This is something my wife picked up at the Shinto shine during New Years. It's full of symbolism. The object itself is a rake which will help you rake in good fortune, specifically rake in money. The two red fish are red snappers, which in Japanese are called "tai." Tai is part of the Japanese word for congratulations, the idea being they will help you be successful in the coming year. At the top there are the faces of two gods. The one in the blue hat promises to keep your home safe. The one in the red hat will help your business be successful in the coming year.
You display this item -- my wife keeps in in front of her home Shinto shrine. Then you take it back to the shrine next year at New Years where they will respectfully burn it up.
“People grow old only by deserting their ideals…Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair.
In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young.
When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.” ~ General Douglas MacArthur
The one thing I know I'm really great at, is wasting time... So for my break from uni work today, I decided to go outside. Across the road from our house is a small reserve and the past few days, I couldn't help but notice the overgrowth of grass, it makes the whole place seem more mystical or something...
I noticed that I seem to pay a bit more attention to the little things now... Things seem to be looking up... :o)
Back to essay! Have a beautiful night dear friends :o)
"Not a mockery, my friend, but the way things are. Not the way things must be, but the way things have turned out. In a world that is also subject to chance. ~David Malouf
I met a great writer today, David Malouf. He gave a lecture at my uni and like a crazed groupie I asked him to autograph a copy of his book for me :o) Turns out he taught my professor at Sydney uni back in the 70's. On my way home, I stopped by a petrol station with a uni mate, Emma and we were talking about this artist Laurel Nakadate who picks up strangers and shoots videos with them doing some bizarre stuff - the concept of voyuerism was today's hot topic.
While Emma and I were lost in our talk about the dangers in art, a woman started joining our conversation and she was just really incredible. She was charismatic and wise, her presence was to me, absolutely genuine. Her name is Grace. I asked if I could take her photo and she was really nice about it. By chance or maybe fate, I met two lovely and inspiring people today.
Here's to happy accidents and chances, though they are few and far between.
This is a solar powered light and charger. Allowed us to charge up our phones and have light when the power went off during the last hurricane. It stores flat and it has multiple colors of lights as well as white. Really handy to have.
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