WMRU Week 23

Testing week

Most projects have been scored and entered (some great stuff).

Admin Stuff

Do not think of the midterm as a test. You don't get a grade on it.

Midterm is Thursday--DEs are off that day

Key Figures presentation times--sign up!

Clear your mind

Your mind is not a cistern or a pond. You are a spring. People can throw dirt and mud and dung in it, but you bubble up clear and pure until you are once again as clean as before. If you do not contaminate yourself, no one can do it to you.

--Marcus Aurelius

One Minute of Light

Matthew 5:48

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect.

Scripture

Mistakes

Quotation

Mistakes reveal our vulnerabilities. They are the way the world understands us. The way performers--all of us--make their performances real.

[Your mistakes] are not weird. A lesser person would have sung it perfectly.

--Malcolm Gladwell

Analysis, Parapraxis, Elvis--Revisionist History Season 3, July 18 2018

Happiness is ours

We may exist for the sake of one another, but our will rules its own domain. Otherwise the harm they do would cause harm to me. Which is not what God intended--for my happiness to rest with someone else.

--Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book VIII, Sec. 56

Light and Peace

2 Nephi 2:6-7

6 Wherefore, redemption cometh in and through the Holy Messiah; for he is full of grace and truth.

7 Behold, he offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to answer the ends of the law, unto all those who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit;

Scripture

Be of good cheer

Quotation

If, for instance, our attitude towards life depends upon the praise of men, the level of interest rates, the outcome of a particular election or athletic contest—we are too much at the mercy of men and circumstance. Nor should our gratitude for the gift of mortal life depend upon the manner in which we die, for surely none of us will rush eagerly forward to tell Jesus how we died!

Instead, Jesus calls upon us to have a deliberate trust in God’s unfolding purposes, not only for all humankind but for us individually. And we are to be of good cheer in the unfolding process.

--Neal Maxwell

Key Figures Presentations

Find a "key figure"

Key Figures Presentations

Make a presentation (3-5 minutes)

Look for your own definition of "key"

bit.ly/liahonakeyfigures

Hula!

On this day in 1963, the Hula Hoop was patented. Made by Wham-O (who also made the Pluto Platter, more commonly known as the Frisbee, the Hula Hoop sold 25 million in the first four months of production.

This Day in History (Hat Tip: Sarah Gatlin)

Be right here, right now.

One Minute of Light

If you can embrace this [present moment] without fear or expectation--can find fulfillment in what you're doing now, as [God] intended, and in superhman truthfulness (every word, every utterance)--then your life will be happy. No one can prevent that.

– Marcus Aurelius

Colossians 3:14-15

14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

Scripture

Obedience

How shall we know that we obey [God]? There is but one method by which we can know it, and that is by the inspiration of the Spirit of the Lord witnessing unto our spirit that we are His, that we love Him, and that He loves us. It is by the spirit of revelation we know this.

--Brigham Young

Quotation

Rose Greenhow

Born 1813-- Died 1864

Lived in D.C.--husband worked at State

Basic Presentation

Sympathy for the Confederacy

First Manassas

Arrested & guarded by Pinkertons

Ran blockade

Return and death