Dad. Teacher. Friend. Director of Adult of Degree Completion @mosolions; Historic Preservation Commissioner @joplincity; @historyatmizzou PhD
Joplin, MO
Joined April 2012
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Trick-Or-Treat So Others Can Eat 🎃
MSSU's athletes delivered a record breaking 8,618 items to support Souls Harbor of Joplin this week.
Thank you to everyone who participated by donating items and helping to stock the shelves!
“your silence in death will never be able to outstrip all the talking you have done” #DonQuixote
“It is a noose that once placed round the neck becomes a Gordian knot, never to be undone except by the scythe of death.” #marriage #DonQuixote
“Oh, if nobody understands me, it's no wonder if my words of wisdom are taken for nonsense.” #SanchoWisdom #DonQuixote
Sancho: “You're such a cricket, sir, of everything I say, as well as of everything I do.”
Don Quixote: “Critic is what you should say, not cricket, you corrupter of good language.”
#DonQuixote
“I hope with God's help to make you understand that it has been wrong of you to drift with the current of those who are convinced that such histories are untrue.” #DonQuixote
“Just you tell me, then, who's madder - the man who's mad because he can't help it, or the man who chooses to be mad?” #DonQuixote
“Old Father Time will take good care to steal our lives away, without us looking for ways to encourage him to end them before their due time and season, when they'll drop from their own ripeness.” #SanchoWisdom #DonQuixote
Wonderful time today presenting at @MissouriChamber’s #MoWorkforce2030 conference. Always trying to learn how to better serve #adultlearners
“Soil that left to itself would be poor and sterile gives good yields when you manure it and you till it.” 1/2
“What I'm trying to say is that being with you is the manure that's been spread over the barren soil of my poor wits, and the tilling is all this time I've been with you…” 2/2 🤎 #SanchoWisdom #DonQuixote 🖤
“Scepters and crowns of playhouse emperors are never made of pure gold, but of tin or tinsel.” #SanchoWisdom #DonQuixote
“Actors and dramatists…are all instruments with which great benefits are conferred on society, holding up to us at every step a mirror in which we can see the actions of human life most vividly portrayed…” 1/2
“…for there is no more realistic representation of what we are and what we are going to be than plays and players.” 2/2 #DonQuixote
“sorrows weren't made for animals but for men, yet if men let themselves be too affected by their sorrows they turn into animals.” #SanchoWisdom #DonQuixote