AO: Terminus
QiC: Gates
Pax Count: 11
Pax List: Buttercup, Candy Land, Gates, Gronk, Gump, Jackal Puff, Jumbo, Martina, Reggie, Croissant, Gomer
FNG Count: 1
Warm up:
SSH, High Knees, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, Don Quixote, Squats
The Thang:
Mosey to bridge by gazebo where we introduced the workout based on Small’s backblast from last year (1/21/2020): Read and reflect on Letter from a Birmingham Jail, and found a few big ideas about leadership which we used in concert with the workout.
1. Discover your own moral/ethical clarity to motivate action
2. Embrace compassionate tension
3. Tenaciously cling to respect and dignity for those you disagree with
Link to the doc I used with the quotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LwxzkVc5R545YTqbil42b7iJSN5MBibG/edit#
Link to full text: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/letter-birmingham-jail
Mosey to front/courtyard of pool house
3 circuits (one for each lesson learned):
1. Burpee Broad Jump 20 yds
2. Merkins x20
3. Bonnie Blairs x20 (total, not each leg)
4. StnMtn Pushups x20
5. Bear Squats x20
6. Run loop around lake
7. Hold a Plank, Wall sit, Al Gore while YHC shared an impactful quote related to each lesson
CoT:
Thankful to for lessons of leadership and example of men like MLK. Jumbo encouraged us to not be silent and speak out against injustice.
Named FNG Croissant (Karsten Tufts)
Naked Man Moleskin:
I encourage all to read the full letter from the Birmingham Jail by Dr. King (see in link above). As author Jamar Tisby wrote in The Color of Compromise, MLK’s letter “has since proven to be one of the greatest works of Christian politcal theology ever produced by an American.” I have found it humbling, inspiring, and incredibly relevant almost 58 years later.