Music and Lyrics

Dear Reader, This is a rare post when I can tell you about music one of my friends wrote. Taylor Miranda, a friend and coworker of mine, got together with her friends and wrote this great song called " Live or Survive " for their song-writing class at Brigham Young University. The thing is, the song is really, REALLY good. So, they decided to make a goal to put said song into the upcoming Hunger Games film, "Mockingjay, Part 2." A phenomenon started. People on Youtube have already started using the song for their video montages of the "Hunger Games" films. They have had their song played on different sites and the group, TREN, has been interviewed by KSL News and highlighted by LDS Living . As of late, they have also made a spot in the Deseret News ! If you don't know a whole lot about the "Hunger Games," the series is a story about a society with a terrible infrastructure and corrupt government that rules with fear. The story de...

Dear Reader, I would give you the cliche "Sorry it's been so long since I've written" summary, but you don't want to read another one of those and I don't want to write another one. We are being honest, right? Speaking of honesty, let's get to the topic at hand: leadership. Honesty is one of the attributes listed in the " Top 10 Qualities That Make a Good Leader ," according to Forbes. I like the list and think it very accurate. The subject of being a good leader, however, is something that has been on my mind ever since Institute last week. Our main topic of conversation was a list of attributes that made Jesus Christ a good leader. We wrote up a list of 20-30 attributes/habits on the board. Of that list, we can mention a few here: 1. Individual love In so many cases, Jesus showed that he cared for the one sheep ( Luke 15 ) that needed his help. In our discussion, we talked about Jesus addressing the disciples individually by name an...