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Daily Archives Wednesday, November 2009

Lest We Forget…

Linking to this post is becoming another annual blog tradition… I don't know if the Army was where Grandpa got into the habit of wearing his hats just slightly askew but it was something he did for the rest of his life.  And without guidance or instruction from us, Pace has picked up the same […]

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"You Get To Decide What Has Meaning and What Doesn't, You Get To Decide What To Worship" – David Foster Wallace Commencement Address On The True Purpose of a Liberal Arts Education

Lots of good, thought-provoking stuff in this 2005 commencement speech by David Foster Wallace.  The following section especially jumped out at me knowing how Wallace would eventually kill himself a few years later:“It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head. They shoot […]

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