The Thrill Is...

...Still here.  Despite it being the end of day 14 of school, I am still hopeful and excited about the intelligence, personality, and attentiveness of you APES (AP English Students...no offense).  Thank you for presenting - those of you who did, that is.  It's not an easy thing to do and even though this class might require less in terms of grades, it certainly does require more in terms of courage. So get into the arena...

As a little inspiration, reread Teddy Roosevelt's amazing quote.  It inspires me each day.  Have a great weekend and I'll see you on Monday.

Love and light,
Beltran

P.S. - for the one who asked, I sign off with "love and light" because what else is there?  We aren't here on earth for our finite period of time to walk around with our hands balled into fists...we are meant to enter into the complicated, messy business of loving and seeing the light in one another.  It's much easier to build a wall than a bigger table but I invite you to sit with me.

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

~ Citizenship in a Republic, 1910