Beat Battle 2012

This one is for you Javier.

Alexander Denke

This is for all of you swim buddies.  I was scanning through byu tv and came across a show that had Xander (Alex for all of you who knew and loved him by that name :) including me who cannot quite bring myself to refer to him as Xander- although the transition would be one I could make more easily than Clayton turning into C. Farr- never could do that one, hence "Smitty".)  Anyway, I haven't keep up with him so it was fun to see him and Carrie talking about their twin boys who were born with a rare and fatal blood disease and the successful transplant that saved them and the story surrounding it.
Here is the link.

daring greatly

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt
"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910