commentary on stuff I've recently encountered

If you have (or ever will have) kids in sports, please read this blog entry.
This blog entry from the wife of a volunteer sports coach appeared in the 5/1/09 issue of the CharacterCounts.org sportsmanship email newsletter.
http://youdonthavetolikeme.blogspot.com/2009/04/open-letter-to-parents-of-athletes.html


I thought this kinda stuff only happened in the movie Gattaca!
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article6196646.ece
In the fictional movie Gattaca, one of the many things which the character Vincent Freeman does to better his chances of being accepted into a futuristic astronaut program is to have an operation to lengthen his legs to augment his natural height. While I have never been ridiculed or teased for being short (maybe just the opposite), I was teased and taunted in my teens for other reasons. So I do know how that feels. I would hope that no one within the influence of this blog would ever do or say anything to make someone else feel inherently inferior or less-than for any attribute over which they have no control, be it height, or hair color, or race, a physical impediment, or mental handicap, etc. Shorter people should not be treated in a manner that makes them feel the need to have an operation in order to be viewed as more credible in a job where height is irrelevant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limb_lengthening


Visiting Teaching Message Video
How has this Visiting Teaching Video escaped my attention for more than a year?! So Sisters, is this what you watch during General Relief Society broadcasts? Good humor and a good message.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkG1W0GeF_c
Of course the same principles apply to Home Teaching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGykri3eKtc&NR=1