Good luck to our Varsity Girls Soccer Team! Go Bucs

Berkeley Prep still in its comfort zone

Berkeley Prep’s seniors have allowed the program to build for continued success. The six seniors, left to right, Netanya Goodman, Emmarose Glaser, Emily Weissman, Lexi Ludy, Julianne Tanella and Dana Manning, have played at the varsity level since middle school. RANDY WEISSMAN

BY JARRETT GUTHRIE
Tribune correspondent 
Published: February 3, 2015

TAMPA — There was an air of comfort to the Berkeley Prep girls soccer team’s practice Monday afternoon.

Just two days before tonight’s Class 2A state final four match at Melbourne’s Eastern Florida State College against defending champion Delray Beach American Heritage at 5:30 p.m., no one could have blamed the Buccaneers if there had been rattled nerves, anxiousness and a lack of composure.

read it all HERE

Mistakes #qftpp

The "quote from the practice plan" for today is:

What do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. 

-Dean Smith

Happy Birthday, Thomas Merton

''On the last day of January 1915, under the sign of the Water Bearer, in a year of a great war, and down in the shadows of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into the world.''

The opening line of Thomas Merton's Seven Story Mountain. Happy Birthday, Thomas Merton, Poet, Prophet, Priest.

Remembering MLK,Jr.

Almighty God, by the hand of Moses your servant you led your people out of slavery, and made them free at last; Grant that your Church, following the example of your prophet Martin Luther King, may resist oppression in the name of your love, and may secure for all your children the blessed liberty of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

J.R.R. Tolkien surprised by the appearance of Strider!

This fascinates me about the mind of J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as his writing process....

"Tolkien confessed that 1/3rd of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, & Tolkien was in despair. He didn’t know who Strider was, where the book was going, or what to write next. Strider turns out to be no lesser person than Aragorn, the unrecognized & uncrowned king of all the forces of good, whose restoration to rule is, along with the destruction of the evil ring, the engine that moves the plot of the whole massive trilogy."