"Whereever you are, be all there"

I thought this was a good article on learning to be present. 

"Work, meaningful work, is like that. It requires us to be fully present and then good things follow. As missionary Jim Elliot (1927-1956) famously said, "Wherever you are, be all there.""

Stay whole Tuesday!

Road Trip

Looking forward to meeting Taylor

Coming to Austin in May

Go Braves and Go Sally

Check out www.sallybsingletary.com

Emily's latest art projects

Sea monster - Computer Graphics Class

Jelly Fish - 3D Modeling Class

Congratulations SCAD Women's Golf

SCAD's Billy Nisbet - coolest golf photo ever!

There is exciting news this week from The Sun Conference Championships where our NAIA top-ranked SCAD Women held on to take first place by three shots over Embry-Riddle. Congratulations Lady Bees for your outstanding season and special kudos to Alazne Urizar, who took the individual title and was voted The Sun Conference Player of the Year and to Coach Workman for being selected The Sun Conference Women's Coach of the Year! Read about it here.

In two weeks, the men's team will compete for The Sun Conference Championship as well. The men had a strong tournament recently at the TSC Spring Invite, with a 4th place finish. This tournament is a preview to their championship, as most of The Sun Conference teams competed.

There is less than a month for the women to now prepare for the 19th Annual NAIA Women's Golf National Championship, which will take place at Wilderness Ridge Golf Club in Lincoln, NE on May 21-24.

Be sure to visit www.b-keepers.org for all the latest news on SCAD Golf, to view photos (password: 'gobees') of your favorite student-artist-athlete, and to B-Inspired by the creative work of current and past SCAD golfers.

Stay Whole - SCAD Golf

In the lead after Day One at Sun Conference Championships

Successful Deadends

I saw two things this morning on creativity and failure. The first is titled "Successful Deadends" and the second is titled "How Failure is a Part of Life." You can listen through the links or read the transcript below. Make it a great Monday!

Successful Deadends
by: Howard E. Butt Jr.

If you pay attention to business failures, you may start to perceive what some call “dead ends onto right paths.” Here are a few Harvey McKay gave in his classic business book:
 
1) Walt Disney was once fired by a newspaper. For what? For lack of ideas.
2) MGM’s memo after Fred Astaire’s screen test said: Can’t act. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.
3) Beethoven’s violin teacher declared him hopeless as a composer.
 
This is Howard Butt, Jr., of Laity Lodge. If that list of dead ends doesn’t encourage you, have someone check your pulse. Failures do not a career UN-make. On the contrary: A dead end is your signal to make a RIGHT turn . . . into the high calling of our daily work. 

How Failure is a Part of Life
by: Andy Crouch

I've come to realize that all creativity leads through failure . . . takes you through failure. And some creativity leads you to failure; you just end up in failure. So all creativity requires the willingness to fail, and I don't know any creative endeavor where you don't fail before you succeed . . . at least when you're learning. But as you go on in that field, if you are doing what you're meant to do, the demands get bigger and bigger. The levels of failure that you have to contemplate or go through to get to success get greater and greater. Paul ends up at the end of his life writing, and he says, "Almost everyone I trusted has deserted me." He writes to Timothy and says, "Please come visit me." At that moment in his life—and his life is about to fail, be cut off by the Roman Empire—he looks at most of what he's done and says it's deserted. So the calling to the creative life, to the culture making life is not a calling to more and more clearer success. It's a calling to more and more creativity, which may or may not succeed. All of which is going to put you at risk for failing, and all of which then has to be put in the hands of God.

Lu and Lily

Zenith 2013

Look who made the Dean's List!

New York stands by Boston

Sally and all my other daughters who love baseball. This logo appeared on the scoreboard in Yankee Stadium last night. The sound system played Sweet Caroline, a great Fenway Park tradition.

Listen and watch here.

The Masters

This is a great article from Uncle Ricky that reminded me of Poppy and his love for Pimento Cheese. Yet another reason to love The Masters.

So much fun yesterday watching the drama with mom and exchanging text messages with (new to the game) Aunt Banana (a.k.a. Tigerreta), Mom, Emily,  Sally and Uncle Ricky. Lucy told me she got tired of all of The Masters texts!

Sally jumped in the mix late with some funny comments about Angel Cabrera 'chiefing cigarettes' when he won his two other majors. (I understand he no longer smokes.) Adam Scott is 31 years old, so I think a little too old for you girls? Mom thinks he is just fine - for her - but I am not letting mom go anywhere near him.

Emily, I think this UniQlo company might be your ticket to Adam? Make it a great Monday!

Eloquent Sufficiency

Hey Girls,

I am back in Austin after six days in Vegas at NAB. One of the highlights of the week was a fun dinner at a great restaurant in The Wynn Hotel, called Lakeside. Our guest that night was a gentleman by the name of Adam Golden who runs Post Production for Google's YouTube Space concepts. (Emily, be sure to tell your friends at SCAD about YouTube Space, if they are in the video production field.)

At the end of our dinner, we were all commenting on how much 'good' food we had eaten and I mentioned Pop's famous quote. Adam immediately chimed in with a quote that his grandmother made him memorize:

"My appetite has been suffonsified, I have had an eloquent sufficiency. Anymore would be obnoxious to my fastidious taste."

That was the first time I have ever heard anyone else use those words! I guess Pop's second grade teacher really did teach him about being sufficiently parinsified, though I am now of the mind that the word was something like suffonsified.

Here's to grandparents who teach us good things,

Dad 

Em's 3D design project

Austin Designer Linda Asaf

Mom found this hip Austin designer as a possible place for Emily to learn about the dress making business. Check out this urban wedding on the top of a parking garage. Now that might be a better idea than the backyard?

Goose bumps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jmisv1Spck&feature=youtu.be

Encore Dance Competition

Lucy wins National Scholarship Award and her duet takes home first place!

Air Force One

Not much of a picture, but that is Air Force One landing outside my Bay view window at San Francisco Airport Marriott. Pretty cool!

Reasons why we love our 21 year old Sally

Mom says: (1) I love your sense of adventure. You have a good understanding of people and the world. You treat others with kindness and love - and that is what you get in return; and (2) I love the way you work hard and achieve your goals. You are never afraid to try. You've got guts!

Dad says: (1) I love how you always told me I was doing great when we did father - daughter dances together; and (2) I love how you have taken your academic work at UGA so seriously and how you have set yourself up for success by being active in professional organizations and getting impressive internships.

Emily says: I love that Sally has been such a great role model to Lucy and to me. We have followed her example and it has been a very good path!; and (2) I love that Sally and I are best friends and yet are so different, but also have the same passion for clothing and are going through our college years close enough to visit each other and have a super fun time!

Lucy says: (1) I love how even though Sally lives away now, she still loves to know everything going on in my life; and (2) I love how she always knows how to make me smile and is really supportive of my dance!

No Fooling Around - Sally Singletary is 21!