I can’t think of a more mindless act than wasting food. We have so much while so many do not even have enough to live. The mindless waste and greed from last night, for me, bordered on obscene. I say mindless because it was good people who were generating all the waste. There was nothing nefarious about their intent, just zero awareness or thought about the consequence of their own actions. They were completely oblivious of the impact their mindless actions were having on, not just people in obvious less fortunate circumstances than their own, but on people in the very same buffet line as themselves. The difficult part for me to resolve and process is that I had hosted the event to help combat the conspicuous consumption so many of my guests were so mindlessly displaying.
Last night’s audible splat of my best intentions and efforts to make a difference on the mindfulness front failing miserably could not derail the celebration of three new black belts entering the Silent River Kung fu fold. Sifus Hannah Meier, Simon Kohut, and Andrew Meier are three of the finest candidates I have ever promoted. I am proud of the example they have set for everyone. Also congratulations go out to Sifu Lisa Freitag and Sifu Kim Macdonald for their promotions to 6th degree and 2nd degree respectively and Sifu Brenda Stoddart who not only was promoted to fourth degree black belt but who was also awarded Black Belt of the Year. Lastly, we have not had a finer recipient of the Travis Panasiuk Memorial Award than Jackie Kohut. Jackie’s accomplishments and leadership this year gave little doubt of her earning the title of Student of the Year for 2018.
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” - Jim Rohn (1930 - 2009)
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