the groundhog day project

I'm in a thoughtful mood tonight. As Groundhog Day started tonight, I was eating a piece of cake with my face on it. That's not why I'm thoughtful, but it seemed like something worth mentioning. The entire cake had a group photo of our speech team on it. Tonight was our end-of-the-year banquet. It was just like the banquet at the end of Groundhog Day , if Phil were actually three coaches and a team president and the people talking were not approaching to thank him (them) but to, well, sort of roast them. And, instead of auctioning people off, our head coach handed out a few awards and we had cake. And Tracey, Vice President of the team for next year after only one year of doing this, performed an awesome piece with us coaches as birds (first eagles, then phoenixes--our official mascot is the golden eagle), the students as, well, the birds we're raising up to be eagles. I can't do it justice here. I don't know if any of my fellow coaches (who are graduating...

My daughter tried out for a part in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown [so did I], so when I was wondering what to write about tonight--because the Groundhog Day book (about the holiday) I've got actually had a bit more detail than I expected so I will have to read it in more detail later, and I couldn't decide on a Bill Murray movie to watch and write about and don't have time for two movies tonight anyway, and, well, a couple other ideas that take up too much time for today--she presented a challenge. Recall, she prompted my entries about Phil's favorite color and Larry's kids , just to name a couple. Anyway, I asked Saer for another topic because I was thinking of echoing an earlier entry--today is the 85th day from the end so I looked to Day 85 which began with my daughter calling me obsessive. Her prompt, or challenge I suppose: I have to map the characters from Groundhog Day onto the characters from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown . As Barney Stin...

It continues: "You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt." - Barack Obama Faith cannot be faith, here, obviously, if I want to link this to Groundhog Day . So, the question then becomes, what is faith? Faith is when we believe stuff without evidence. Pre-loop Phil believes he's better than he is, that he deserves more than other people... Well, I'd actually probably argue that he doesn't really believe that, but I think he would think he believes it. Contrary to the quotation, I don't think Phil's "faith" then allows for doubt. But, the loop changes that. It breaks down his barriers, his defenses, and gives him a whole lot to doubt about who he believed he was. But, that is cheating, because that isn't what the quotation is about. The quotation, I think, when taken on its own, suggests that faith should always admit doubts. I think this is actually a bad impromptu quotation, though, because it provides no conclusion with which t...