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My mother was a school teacher before my brothers and I came along and she’s has had the pleasure of meeting some of her students years later and learning of their life’s adventures. (Incidentally, they usually remember what a good teacher she was…) One of those students, Patrick Milan, is going to a peace conference in Switzerland this fall and will be bringing 13 camping chairs (similar to this) with him, each with a simple word on the back.

He was biking around the lake today asking for donations to help fund his trip. In exchange, he offered a book he wrote (Inspiration Point) and let us write our own message on one of the chairs. I’m supposedly the wordsmith of the family—I know, you’re all shocked—so they asked me to write something when we gave him our donation. After all, “God blesses us all with peace” and “Peace be with everyone” gets old fairly quickly. Out of the two chairs he brought today, I chose the Patience chair instead of the Courage chair and left this message:

Peace is always in front of us—we just need to look for it.

Not the most inspirational statement I’ve ever made, but it’s important to remember: Look for peace and it’s already there for you.

Those who can, do.
Those who can’t do, teach.
Those who can’t do or teach will inevitably become your boss.

I spent the last few days in Ohio at my 10th year college reunion, but before I could write anything about it, something occurred to me: on this date four years ago, Beauty and the Geek first hit the airwaves and turned me into an international superstar. Or at least put my face on TV—the “superstar” status is questionable at best.

Four years… wow. I feel like I should write more, but that pretty much sums up my feelings at the moment. Wow.

I was about to write a new blog entry and decided to check out the comments that spammers have tried to post recently. This one is awesome. In reference to “DON’T PANIC”, it reads:

I came across this when searching info on Google. I will use it to complete my report for this weekend, thanks for the info.