Here’s the eulogy I delivered at today’s Assembly. The video I showed follows. Steve Jobs was one of the great Americans — a self-made flower child who turned the world on its head through his hard work. Born to students — including a Syrian studying abroad — and raised by adoptive parents, Steve Jobs was raised near San [...]
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Assembly eulogy of Steve Jobs
Posted in Culture, History on October 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Learning to Try
Posted in Culture, Sports, Uncategorized, tagged Sports, track on April 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Education is many things. But, to me, it is, in some large measure, about learning to try. It’s in the attempts that we uncover the lesson. Like many things, best to get this lesson as early as possible. But, young… old… succeed… fail, in many respects, the relevance of these things begins to dissolve with [...]
Learning Tengwar
Posted in Burke y El Mundo, Culture on April 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tengwar is the name of the alphabet used in several languages in Middle-Earth. Tengwa is a word in Quenya (the Elvish dialect we teach) meaning “sign” or “symbol,” so plural Tengwar comes from that. Within Tolkien’s mythology, the Noldo elf Fëanor invented the Tengwar, to replace Sarati, the previous, more limited system. (Fëanor was also, [...]
Reject The Tyranny of ‘Being Picked’
Posted in College Counseling, Culture, Education, tagged college, Education on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s college notification week. All across the country high school seniors are re-living their first grade experience of waiting to see who picks them for kickball. Except now the choice is being made by people who know so little about the kids that put so much faith in them. Why are we so willing to [...]
Fernando ♥s: Faux Fur
Posted in Culture, tagged fashion on March 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
[Editor - here is the first of what we hope is the first of a long string (or should we say 'gown') of blog posts from Fernando S ('11) about clothes, costumes, fashion and more. Fernando has worked on costume design for a number of Burke plays, including Urinetown and this year's musical, The Boyfriend. [...]
Left to Our Own Devices
Posted in Community, Culture, Literature, tagged literature, technology on November 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I had just gone through the airport scanner, one of the anxiety producing waypoints at the start of a college tour. We were in the rush to reclaim our gray tubs which were being pushed farther and farther away from us, so that we could rapidly re-accessorize ourselves with shoes, belts, jackets and most importantly, [...]
Immutable
Posted in Culture, Performing Arts, tagged music on October 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
About a month ago Bob Dylan played The Times They Are a Changin’ at the White House. According to the press, he came and he left, almost without a trace, other than his moving performance. After playing he apparently receded into the night, like the mysterious wandering minstrel, with only a slight nod and a [...]
Dancing With the Stars… of Kenya!
Posted in Community, Culture, tagged Burke, music on October 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to Anne Stewart, mother of Burke students Catherine ’16 and Maria ’13, Burke had the opportunity to view a live performance from the music and dance group Kenge Kenge. The Kenyan group from the JoLuo tribe performed on handmade instruments and played traditional music in the Benga style. Their high-energy music was [...]
National Coming Out Day
Posted in Activism, Community, Culture on October 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Is today! There are tons of ways you can show your support as a GLBTQ person or Straight Ally. Check out: HRC (human rights campaign) – the Human Rights Campaign represents a grassroots force of over 750,000 members and supporters nationwide. As the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, HRC envisions [...]
Looking for a way to spend your Saturday?
Posted in Culture, Education, Performing Arts, Uncategorized on September 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The 26th Annual Kennedy Center Open House Arts Festival Saturday, September 11, 2010 12-7 p.m. Free! Some events may require free tickets. It’s a new season of Performing Arts for Everyone! This year’s Open House Arts Festival is part of the Kennedy Center’s Celebrate Mexico 2010, a three-week-long commemoration of Mexico’s 200 years of independence and 100 years [...]
Bark-le Up – More Summer Stuff
Posted in Culture, tagged pets on August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To set the mood for the following bit of pulitzer prize winning photo journalism – you must first start the youtube video… and then scroll down below: Something seemed a little bit different as we drove behind an otherwise perfect looking red convertible… For some reason we couldn’t take our eyes (and iPhone) off the [...]
Last Minute Summer Productivity Enhancement Exercise
Posted in Culture on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There’s still some time left to summer before you need to return to school or office…. So, if you don’t procrastinate and start now, there’s enough time to watch as many seasons of The Office as your eyelids can manage to stay open for. Only question is whether it counts as a proper extra-curricular for [...]
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