•    It’s interesting to me that when people do yoga (even for the first time) a common reaction is that everyone should do this every day.  
•    I’ve never been good at showing off.  The only times I’ve tried have been complete fails.  Like the time I had a whole crowd chanting my name at the free throw line and missed them both; or the time I tried to fight for _____’s honor and lost; or the time I taunted an entire dorm and was sprayed with shaving cream.  But this last time might have been the worst.  While trying to use a sledge hammer and break apart an old picnic table that was left on our lawn, I hit a board and it immediately bounced back and nailed me in the face.  
•    The thing that made it worse is that my wife had just come home, and I was trying to use it in a way that made me look strong in front of her.  Her telling of the story is: I watched you swing a hammer and hit yourself in the face with a board.  
•    What’s worse: I may be concussed.  
•    School’s need standards.  And those standards must be enforced.  When they’re not, things go quite awry.  I’ve been seeing much of this awry-ness, and it ain’t good.  
•    When standards slip and there isn’t an expectation of excellence, people slack off.
•    The proverbial bar is something most people will rise to.  Or sink to.  
•    So let’s rise it.
•    LeBron is such a beast.  Watching him play basketball is watching poetry in motion.  He controls the court, sees things most don’t see, and handles the court with the control of a maestro.  
•    It’s beautiful.  
•    The show, Survivor, has adapted very well to the times, changing the game just enough to keep it interesting, while still being true to itself.  
•    John Oliver, on Last Week Tonight, did a segment on 9-1-1 calls and their technology.  Both Uber and Dominos have more accurate location services than 9-1-1.  Hearing this is interesting, seeing the parody skit to this reality is even better.  In the skit, a fireman is talking to a group of kids, saying if they have a problem to call 9-1-1.  He states the statistic that 4 out of 5 times they’ll show up; at the same time, a kid orders a pizza through the dominos app, and it shows up way before 9-1-1.  
•    I’m very curious where things like Last Week Tonight, The Daily Show, and Colbert Report will land historically.  Do they make enough of us care?  Do they enact change?  Or, are they just a vehicle to make people cynical?
•    There’s much discontent among people these days.  We’re critical.  Cynical.  There’s a place for this, certainly, as systems that were set up and promised are collapsing around us; as things long expected to stand are falling.  It’s okay to be cynical for a while, and to grieve the old systems, yet for anything to come from it, a new path must be created.  T