Hi. Our channel has hit ten thousand subscribers, and I want to say Thank You to all of you
who've made that happen.
I'm very pleased and very humbled by it.
We've got some interesting things coming up on the channel, some exciting new videos that
I'll post in the coming weeks.
I think you'll really enjoy them.
But for this video, to say Thank You, I'd like to do something a little bit more personal.
So I'm going to give you a walkthrough of the items that I have posted on my office
door at the university.
Then, at the end of the video, if I can get her to cooperate, I'll introduce you to my
family's new puppy, named Zippy.
Here's my door.
Here are some of the items on my office door.
At the top, a quote from one of my favorite plays and movies, A Man For All Seasons.
More advises Rich to be a teacher, and the young and ambitious Rich wants to know who
would, who would know his name if he were a teacher.
More replies: "You, your pupils, your friends, and God.
Not a bad public, that."
Beneath that, I have a prayer card for the canonization of Father Stanley Rother, a Catholic
priest who was murdered in Guatemala in the 1980s.
Next to that, an old Dilbert cartoon.
"Wally, did you review the spreadsheet that I emailed?"
"I didn't want to be inconvenienced.
My philosophy is that anything worth doing is too hard."
She replies, "A character flaw isn't a philosophy."
Beneath that, a stick figure drawing that one of my kids made of me holding hands with her.
In the upper corner, another one of my kids' drawings, "Zombies," it says, one of my favorites.
I especially love the people running away in terror.
Beneath that, a playing card from a tabletop game my kids made years ago.
There were different characters you could play, and one of the characters was "Doctor
Anadale, a well respected professor."
When we finished with the game I asked if I could put this on my office door, and here it is.
An old comic strip from way back: a philosophy department posted 38 days without a logical fallacy.
Another quote, in the middle of the door: "Teaching is an act of love, a spiritual cohabitation,
one of the few sacred relationships left in a crass secular world."
And then another quotation, from one of my favorite saints, St. Josemaria Escriva: "La
reja que rotura y abre el surco no ve la semilla ni el fruto.
The plowshare that breaks the earth and opens the furrow sees neither the seed nor the harvest."
One of my favorite reminders of the often hidden value of education.
Above that, I don't think this is legible in the photo, is a fortune from a Chinese
fortune cookie I got year ago.
It says "Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we cannot see."
I put that up on the door.
And at the bottom of the door, we have one of my favorite illustrations, that my son
made when he was very young: "Daddy and Peter Fighting a Giant Bad Guy Robot."
And then the departmental course offerings for the Fall of 2021.
If you look in the bottom corner you'll see I'm teaching a seminar on Nietzsche.
And this is Zippy.
She just woke up, she's a little bit, a little bit tired.
So, thanks again to everyone who got us to 10K, I really appreciate it.
I look forward to posting some new videos and hearing your reaction to them soon.
Thanks for watching today, goodbye.