Keep Going...

I was doing some online reading of blogs today and I came across this little gem from David Weiss' blog (former programmer at Microsoft from the MAC BU):

Stick to your task ’til it sticks to you;
Beginners are many, but enders are few.
Honor, power, place and praise
Will always come to the one who stays.

Stick to your task ’til it sticks to you;
Bend at it, sweat at it, smile at it, too;
For out of the bend and the sweat and the smile
Will come life’s victories after a while.

Loved it. It's so applicable to education.
-Mr. Bowman

The Hardest Days

Being a principal is hard, fun, challenging, rewarding and many other descriptive words I could use. For today, I'm going to use: hard. Hard in the sense that we have tremendous responsiblities in the education of children. These responsibilities are often times interrupted with situations that you can't control.

Today was a roller coaster of emotion for me, from anger to joy to deep appreciation of the human race. I know, that's way out there . . . an appreciation for the human race but today I saw the love of parents shine through a very tough situation. In a world that seems so focused on the negative and pointing out the faults of others and systems, it was incredibly moving to see how love can overcome.

I was at church a few Sundays ago . . . and when I walked in there was a message on the projection screen before the service. It read: Love wins. I just stood there and tried to take in what that all meant.

Today, I saw in our humanity, that love ultimately wins. It was amazing.

-Mr. Bowman

Celebrating Dr. Suess

Celebrating Read Across America and Dr. Suess' Birthday at Outlook's Reading Night.