We’re going for the obvious in Boston. Today’s best #coolikethat picture wins the prize!
The Drill
- got to follow us on Twitter or Instagram or like us on foursquare
- show us your picture however you like, but we’ll be checking Instagram, Twitter, and foursquare
- after you click off your shot – and post in one of those apps — add #coollikethat in your comment or riff
- we all get to see your cool picture – got to be in the public stream
- need to get your picture before midnight today – May 31, 2013
- got to be here to get the prize
- cleverness (and coolness) counts
This playlist might bring you good luck!
This Commencement Spree is my riff on Brother Lawrence Whitney’s (Brother Larry) Howard Thurman remix:
I make of my life an offering to you, the young folk.
There is a surrender of the life that redeems, purifies, and makes whole.
Every surrender to a particular person, event, circumstance, or activity is but a token surrender, the temporary settling of the passing and transitory.
The surrender must be to something big enough to absolve one from the little way, the meager demand.
It is the claim of religion that this is only found in God. The pathways may vary but the goal is one.
I make of my life an offering to the Nation.
There is in every person something that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in herself.
There is in you something that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.
The burden of what I have to say to you is, “What is your name – who are you – and can you find a way to hear the sound of the genuine in yourself?”
I wonder if you can get still enough – not quiet enough – still enough to hear rumbling up from your unique and essential idiom the sound of the genuine in you.”
I don’t know if I can. But this is your assignment.
I make of my life an offering to the World.
On the one hand is the absolute necessity for the declaration that states unequivocally the uniqueness of the private life, the awful sense of being an isolate, independent and alone, the great urgency to savor one’s personal flavor – to stand over against all the rest of life in contained affirmation. While on the other hand is the necessity to feel oneself as a primary pary of all of life, sharing at every level of awareness a dependence upon the same elements in nature, caught up in the ceaseless rhythm of living and dying, with no final immunity against a common fate that finds and holds all living things.
People, all people belong to each other, and anyone who shuts himself or herself away is diminished, and anyone who shuts another away is destroyed.
And all the people said,
Peace
(Inspiration and Words by Howard Thurman. Remix by Brother Larry. Music on Spotify. Italicized words are meant to be read aloud and with others.)
Two days of Senior Week done, with five full days to go.
I know you’re asking, “How would Dean Elmore do up Senior Week?” Well, here you go. Each day this week, Dean Elmore will sketch (and yes, emphasis on sketch) out how he thinks you should be spending your Senior Week – from what to do during the day, what to jam to as you prep and what you should be donning at all of the events.
Your Monday agenda, from the Dean himself.
Do you need Harbor Cruise tickets? Some are still available for sale.
Tonight’s other event is the Harpoon Brewery takeover. That is sold out. If you’re lucky enough to have a ticket, use the hashtag #BU13Harpoon on Twitter and Instagram and tell us what your favorite pretzel dipping sauce turns out to be.
