AT THE UN-NATIONAL MONUMENT ALONG THE CANADIAN BORDER

 By poet William Stanford

This is the field where the battle did not happen

Where the unknown soldier did not die.

This is the filed where grass joined hands

Where no monument stands

And the only heroic thing is the sky.

Birds fly here without any sound

Unfolding their wings across the open

No people killed

Or were killed

On this ground

Hallowed by neglect and an air so tame

That people celebrate it by forgetting its name.

GALOIS THEORY WRITTEN UNDER PRESSURE OF DUEL

 The Story of Mathematics by Richard Mankiewicz

Romantic enthusiast

From 37,000 year old calendar stick made from notched bone to 20 year old Evarist Galois who spent the night before his death in a duel writing down the essentials of his theory (a key component in modern algebra), occasionally pausing to write in the margins “I have no time!”

MARTHA MARTIN

O Rugged Land of Gold

 1953 Memoir detailing her survival as a pregnant, injured woman abandoned on a remote Alaskan island during winter

THE GREAT ESCAPE

 Book and 1963 movie with Steve McQueen

Inspired by US airman John Dortch Lewis

Flew missions in a FABRIC-COVERED Hawker Hurricane with the RCAF

Wounded over France but crash landed in Britain.

Shot down over North Africa and evaded German troops in the desert for 2 weeks before capture

Caught 3 times before breaking free on the 4th try in a prison camp with a group of allied troops

Died in N. Carolina with pancreatic cancer and emphysema

GATORADE INSPIRATION

 Invented for U of Florida football

“What will you do?

Will you give into it or will you fight through it?

Will you fear it or embrace it?

Will you hold back or will you hold nothing back?

Is it in you?”

SELF-ESTEEM

 Dr. Michael Sheehan (The Self Esteem Game)

”Self esteem is present when there is little discrepancy between a person’s ideal and actual self.”

GAME THEORY?

 Jean Paul Sartre

“Only in games is man free, because only in games does he understand what is going on.”

MARRIAGE

 17th century Bishop Jeremy Taylor

“Marriage has less beauty but more safety than a single life. It’s full of sorrows and full of joy. It lies under more burdens but it is supported by all of the strengths of love, and those burdens are delightful.”

MISO SOUP

2 tsp dashi (bonito powder or other stock concentrate)
3 T miso paste

8 oz tofu

3 green onions, sliced

4 c water