Dr. Richard Davis

Photo for Dec 2 2009

Not sure why Dr. Davis was on my mind today, but I figured since he was, he should be a part of my photo for the day

The photo in the photo above was taken at my University graduation in May.
{I have a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy & Religious Studies}

A large majority of my classes were with Dr. Davis. By nature I am not a philosophically minded person. In truth, I am a lazy thinker. However, I do believe that being able to reason well is foundational to uncovering the truth about life. Dr. Davis helped to teach me that.

Furthermore, he taught me that there are many other awe-inspiring faucets of philosophy - especially metaphysics (the study of things that are not physical. Ex. time, or souls) & my favorite, epistemology (the study of HOW we know).

I am not a philosophically minded person - & these topics were daunting for me, & extremely challenging. I was scared of being fascinated by it in class & soaking in all the information, but not being able to think about the topics independently.

However, Dr. Davis taught these topics in a detailed, careful & exciting way that made me understand, & want to engage with the ideas more. Most importantly he taught how as a Christian these topics were important & can help draw us closer to the God we serve.

While my essays & exams probably were not the best written, it meant (& still means a tremendous amount to me) when Dr. Davis told me he was proud of me at my graduation (while he was 'hooding' me). This non-philosophically minded person was able to do it.

While I have let a lot of the things I learned fall into some far back corner of my mind since I've left school and re-joined the regular working world. I am in love with philosophy because of Dr. Davis, & I look forward to the day when I can draw all the wonderful things I learned back to mind & read through all those textbooks again. I'm sure I'll spend that day thinking of Dr. Davis again, & missing his classes.

Do you have someone in your life who helped teach & inspire you?

grad.

First it started to rain a little, no big deal. Then it started to rain pretty hard, okay we'll slow it down to 90kms. Okay, now its pouring ridiculously hard, we're doing 70kms. Now its hailing, 50kms, NOW IT'S REALLY HAILING!! We're pulled over on the side of the highway, and all traffic stops east and westbound.We were so scared of the hail, we thought it was going to smash the windshield. It all lasted about 60 seconds, enough to get the ol' heart pumping.

Thankfully the rest of the drive was much more pleasant, though there were storms on every side of us as we headed to Toronto. It has been a very intense weekend!

But it was grad!!!!

First we celebrated with a gourmet breakfast courtesy of Beth and Chris Ricci. I could not wait for these to come out of the oven.


SOOOOOOOOO good.

And of course, I HAD to drink out of a Tyndale mug.

It was a long ceremony with a ton of speeches, but there were a few moments that I'll cherish about it forever. Like seeing all our closest friends afterwards

And visiting with the professors who most radically transformed our lives and the way we'll live them from here on out.

Above is the hubby and I with Dr. Craig Carter

Above is myself with Dr. Richard Davis. He 'hooded' both the hubby and I, very cool

(The hood is the thing I'm wearing around my neck that is a symbol of the degree earned - the hubby has a thin yellow ribbon with his to symbolize that he graduated with distinction, which are high grades.)

Both these professors have actually become quite close friends! They're amazing people will a passion for teaching the Truth and for giving Glory to God. I'll miss them a lot. In fact, when the whole graduating class applauded the faculty, I was the first to stand up, and I almost cried as I looked at the faces of our professors. It was emotional.

From here on out, we're philosophers! Now we get to sit around and think all day. *laugh*

It was such a beautiful day, and it was a long 3 hour drive home filled with reflection, prayers and thanksgiving. It's so awesome that we did this all as a married couple and we'll always be able to share the memories together.

What was your graduation (high school or otherwise) like?

"We don't need any dishes right?"

I honestly asked that question today!

This is it! It's all packed. Even the utensils (we'll be eating with plastic ones for the time being...is that to crazy?)
I was hoping not to have to do all the major packing toward the end of this week but a nasty case of the flu caught me and caged me to the couch for the beginning of the week. This was much to the hubs delight as he desired to save EVERYTHING until the last second.

Nevertheless, here (some of it) is...

The rest of it is hiding in cupboards. (no, really.)

With the hubs nicely resting and working on his final paper. (While wifey does the work! *laugh*)

What a crazy time. Finishing school and packing to move? Who does this? Are we mad? Do you think I should have left the dishes unpacked for one more day?