My dad asked me for suggestions for Christmas. I first said I didn't have any. Then I said I would need a journal. This is what he picked.
I still remember the first time I saw Dead Poet's Society. I was fresh off a year of Ms. Zinos' honors English 10 class, where we studied The Grapes of Wrath and The Crucible and Huckleberry Finn, and of course Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson. At Blockbuster with my parents, they assured me I would love Dead Poet's Society.
They were right. It quickly became one of my favorite movies and its use of the phrase Carpe Diem stuck out to me.
I love the journal and I love that it's something special from my dad.
But I also love that it encourages daily intentional living.
Seize the day.
Isn't this the message of the new year? Of a full life?
Today's seize the day moment:
New strings, new case to take the violin off of hiatus.
The violin was played like crazy through high school, although to be fair, I was under contract to practice for my quartet. I played on and off my first two years of college and rarely after that. I got really into guitar and I traveled a lot and the violin took a backseat.
But this year, I'm going to rekindle that violin fire.
Carpe Diem
Seize the day
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