"Leave" quote

"And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter, some roses blooming out like children in a play. My hope is your story will be about changing, about getting something beautiful born inside of you about learning to love a woman or a man, about learning to love a child, about moving yourself around water, around mountains, around friends, about learning to love others more than we love ourselves, about learning oneness as a way of understanding God. We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and the resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?

It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

I want to repeat one word for you:
Leave.

Roll the word around on your tongue for a bit. It is a beautiful word, isn't it? So strong and forceful, the way you have always wanted to be. And you will not be alone. You have never been alone. Don't worry. Everything will still be here when you get back. It is you who will have changed."

-- Donald Miller

Helpful Interviewing Links

Hey guys-- these links are all worth checking out.  Especially the first one... :)

http://dailyuw.com/2004/10/19/how-to-nail-an-interview/
An article I wrote for UW's campus paper when I attended school there on how to nail an interview-- gives a general overview on how to come prepared and impress your interviewer.

http://www.careerrocketeer.com/2010/06/which-interview-personality-are-you.html

A description of basically "what not to be" in an interview.  Lists different interviewing personalities (which one are you?) and some cautionary warnings.

http://adrianfurnham.com/featured-articles/38-the-personality-of-interviewers

Lists different types of personalities you might see in an interviewer, and how to gauge your response to the more difficult ones.

http://glassdoor.com/

A really helpful website which helped me write many of your interviewing questions.  Type in a job title or description, and it will bring up interviewing questions that other people have been asked who applied for that same job.  (People anonymously submit questions they were asked when interviewing for that same job.)

Remember to dress one step above the position you're applying for, and always have a copy of your resume, a page of references, and a thank you note!

Food for Thought on "Real Beauty"

Dove video: "evolution"  What do we accept as truth that we should call out as a lie?

Diet Health's video on The Photoshop Effect How has our understanding of "normal" been warped?

Blog: Wonderfully Made-- powerful entries about finding our worth in God, even while dealing with the pressures and insecurities of this world. 

Hamlet Scenes

Most of these notations are from the notes you all wrote on the board, on Tuesday.  I haven't double-checked their veracity.

Hamlet:

• Act 1: scenes 1, 2, 4, 5
• Act 2: scene 2
• Act 3: scenes 1, 2, 3, 4
• Act 4: scene 2
• Act 5: scenes 1, 2

Ophelia:

• Act 1: scene 3
• Act 2: scene 1
• Act 3: scene 1, 2
• Act 4: scene 5, 7
• Act 5: --

Gertrude:

• Act 1: scene 2
• Act 2: scene 2
• Act 3: scenes 1, 2, 4
• Act 4: scene 5
• Act 5: scenes 1, 2

Polonius:

• Act 1: scenes 2, 3
• Act 2: scenes 1, 2
• Act 3: scenes 1, 2, 3, 4
• Act 4: --
• Act 5: --

Claudius:

• Act 1: scene 2
• Act 2: scene 2
• Act 3: scenes 1, 3
• Act 4: scenes 1, 3, 7
• Act 5: scenes 1, 2

Laertes:

• Act 1: scenes 2, 3
• Act 2: --
• Act 3: --
• Act 4: scene 7
• Act 5: scenes 1, 2

Fortinbras:

• Act 1: spoken of in scene 1
• Act 2: --
• Act 3: --
• Act 4: scene 4
• Act 5: scene 2

Horatio:

• Act 1: scenes 1, 2, 4, 5
• Act 2: --
• Act 3: scene 2
• Act 4: scenes 5, 6
• Act 5: scenes 1, 2

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern:

• Act 1: --
• Act 2: scene 2
• Act 3: scenes 1, 2, 3
• Act 4: scenes 1, 2
• Act 5: --

Major scenes:
Hamlet tells Horatio and Marcellus that he will put an "antic disposition on"-- Act 1, Sc. V
To be or not to be: Act 3, Sc. 1
Get thee to a nunnery: Act 3, Sc. 1
Claudius prays: Act 3, Sc. 3
Hamlet yells at Gertrude in her bed-chamber/stabs Polonius: Act 3, Sc. 4
Ophelia's mad scene: Act 4, Sc. 5
Grave-yard scene: Act 5, Sc. 1
Many bloody deaths: Act 5, Sc. 2

Hamlet Act V, Sc. I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAx_q6be3pE
Kevin Kline is brilliant.

Photo Walk

From my Reflective Photo walk. :)  

Hope you all enjoyed this assignment-- I did!

He has made everything beautiful in its time.  

Amen.