Sundays In My City

Thanks to the well known Unknown Mami for hosting Sundays in the City.  As regular readers know I am teaching a class at the PGA Championship.  No, I am not teaching anyone how to golf but rather I am working with students to help with the 17th and 18th hole luxury suites.  This is the area where those in the know watch golf.  People think that working the luxury suites is really cool but this is real life event planning.  The guests see the glitz and glamour, I get to see the back of the house. For instance, here is the 18th hole suites look like...

Outside the suite...yes, each one is two floors...

The entry into the suites...

1st Floor

2nd Floor

The fairway and ocean...

The 18th green...

These are pretty nice right?  I would love to spend some time in there eating, drinking and watching golf.  Alas, here is what I will be seeing...

The is my 'office'

I will be answering phone, CB and Internet requests from this lovely location...

On one side I have a lovely view of a storage container and on the other a fabulous view of a dumpster!

Then again I also get to see these smiling faces...so I guess it is all worth it...

Six Word Saturday

Every week CallMeCate hosts a fun hop in which we try to describe our world in six words....

I am teaching a class at this years' PGA Championship.  As I have been on sabbatical for the last couple of months, I have gotten totally out of work mode.  My brain is not functioning and my body is resisting the long   prep days.   It will be a great experience.but for now,

I am out of game shape.

Friday Fragments

Thanks to Ms. 4444's for hosting this most fragmented of Fridays.

The PGA Championship is coming to Charleston next week.  I am teaching a class there which really started today.   I have to be at the golf course basically 14 hours a day for the next 10.  With my brain in sabbatical mode, this is like going 0 to 500 in like 3 secs.  I hope I will survive.

On a related note: This is my class.  Aren't they adorable?  See they are even paying attention.

The downside to the PGA and my teaching there is that Heather has become a single parent for the next 10 days.  My apologies in advance to her.

On a related note: I am even further in her dog house because I just heard I get to go to Germany in October and we don't have the money (or babysitting) for both of us to go.  This is Heather's dream trip I am going on.

This has been a very good blogging week for me personally.  I have been breaking all of my visitation records.  I guess some like me, some really, really like me.  

On a related note: Why is there a blogHer conference and not a blogHim one?  There seems to be some inequity here. 

Okay, I am already dead on my feet and I have to be up at 5:00 AM tomorrow to be out the door by 6:00.  My apologies in advance that I am not going to be able to visit and comment on everyone else' posts until a little bit later in the day.  I will get there but I may be slow in doing so.

On my last related note: Both kids are asleep while Heather and I are sitting here both blogging.  Perhaps, we need to be doing something else...I think it is time for some snogging.

Four Fill In Fun

Thanks to Feeling Beechie for hosting this fun blog hop...
1.   I have no desire to participate in a fallacy of media consciousness.

2.  I love the smell of napalm in the morning because it is such a cool movie quote.

3.  I wish that my lucky charms would snap, crackle and pop.

4.  In one month I will be wrong with my prediction of what I will be doing in one month.

I Can Think On Thursday

Each week Brenda Youngerman gives us a theme to ponder upon.  This week's challenge is to write about:

Legacy

In the world, there are times when we make choices.  The results of those choices then become how we are remembered or rather our legacy.  Legacy is something I take very seriously.  It is actually why I became a professor.  As I often tell my students, I am not teaching them for today, I am teaching them for 10 years from now.  That I want to be a contributor to them having a successful and happy life.  I use the same philosophy towards my children.  My parenting is geared towards helping them acquire the skills and abilities needed to become positive contributors to the world around them.  The question is then, how do I achieve my  goals towards leaving a positive legacy upon the world?

• Legacy requires empathy.  You need to be able to consider people from multiple perspectives.  You need to understand the person/people you are working with as well as the greater world around them.  In a perfect world, you are able to combine the two in order to help them understand their place in the greater world and help them choose the path that is best for them to make a positive contribution upon.
• Legacy requires some sacrifice.  It requires you at times to really think and act in a manner that is best for others and not necessarily yourself. It is being willing to go that extra mile to provide the best incubator for positive outcomes.
• Most importantly, legacy requires love.  Love is at the heart of legacy.  It is demonstrating and inspiring others to care enough to put effort towards being emphatic and be willing to sacrifice to a greater good.  

Legacy for me personally, is about building.  It is about creating a world where people ponder your contributions and smile then act in a positive fashion themselves.  Is it not a coincidence that people write on gravestones that people were loving husbands or wives, that they were caring parents or made excellent contributions to the community.  I have never seen a gravestone that had an individual's bank account or sales figures written upon on it.   The greatest thing about one's legacy is that we are in control of it.  It is based upon the decisions we make and the actions we take.  If one makes good choices, ones legacy is more likely to be remembered as being positive.

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Pour Your Heart Out Wednesday

My wife discovered this blog hop hosted by Things I Can't Say and thought I would like it.  I am guessing she is right.  The purpose of the hop is to write about something near and dear to your heart.  I like doing this.  So here goes...

Lately, I have been seeing a lot people being disrespectful towards one another.  There is probably no better example than the latest gay marriage controversy with Chik Fil-A.  The COO of the company has expressed an opinion that he feels gay marriage is not right.  There are many who disagree with that position.  The problem is not necessarily in the disagreement but in rather the discourse between the two sides.

While their corporate philosophy is not my thing (everyone should have the right to live miserably, divorce and fatten lawyers wallets as a result); the manner in which the outrage expressed by some is most likely hurting more than helping the cause. Using words such as 'hateful,' 'bigot' and 'homophobe' to describe those who disagree with that position are inflammatory and actually will further entrench those whose views are opposite. This approach does not work to improve discourse but rather promotes polarization.

I prefer Dr. Martin Luther King's approach.  He promoted an ideal in a manner that people respected and admired. He did not use the politics of hate but rather one of reason and class. He sold his ideas by using education and eloquence.  I prefer to keep my disagreements civil and respectful. I am a firm believer that over time, causes that are right and just will prevail. Those who advocate using a more aggressive strategy I feel will cause those rights to be delayed and come at a much steeper price than needed to be paid.   While there will always be some who will not see reason, I believe that the majority of people are good and that most want to do the right thing.  It just takes time, education and compassion to bring people to understand what in their heart they know to be true.