Starting next Monday will be the final Five Weeks of the Challenge. It seems like just yesterday we started on this long march. Each of us in our own ways have challenged and made ourselves more self sufficient, giving up luxuries and tasting bitter to make the quality of our lives and relationships all the more sweet. In small and humble ways we've all made great strides and improvements.
For the final Five weeks all scores have been wiped clean, we will all stand shoulder to shoulder, shield to shield for the final push. Tomorrow you'll receive the February challenge and the Final Five scoring system. For ease of scoring all points will be based off the monthly challenge, you will have until Friday to submit any feedback on the scoring system. Monday we begin our final leg of the journey.
Asked why it was dishonorable to return without a shield and not without a helmet, the Spartan king, Demaratos (510 - 491) is said to have replied: "Because the latter they put on for their own protection, but the shield for the common good of all." (Plutarch, Mor.220).
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An old man wandering around the Olympic Games looking for a seat was jeered at by the crowd until he reached the seats of the Spartans, whereupon every Spartan younger than him, and some that were older, stood up and offered him their seat. The crowd applauded and the old man turned to them with a sigh, saying "All Greeks know what is right, but only the Spartans do it."
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It has been my honor to run the course with all of you. Brave warriors, scholars and great thinkers all, it is this final push that we shall show what stuff our dreams are made of.
MOLON LABE!
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