The Random Thoughts of Louis Schmier

I just came in from a pre-dawn walk. Well, it wasn’t really a walk. With the high humidity hanging around after yesterday’s thunder storms with the weight of a wet bath towel, it seemed more like more than a few struggling strides in a pool. Anyway, it was a hard walk, a struggle of a [...]

Something happened on campus last week that profoundly touched me. Despite the fact that I’ve been thinking about it on all my pre-dawn walks since, I am still after these many days at a loss for adequate words. It was Wednesday. Class had just ended. I was awkardly lugging a heavy boxful of student journals [...]

I was out walking on the pre-dawn streets of Valdosta this morning, just enjoying this “getting to know myself” time, not thinking about much of anything–so I had convinced myself–when during the last leg of my five mile route little bits and pieces of a an on-going conversation I had had on the interent with [...]

I was just reminded of a profound view of people on my campus that I had adopted a while back but curiously had let slip from my conscious thoughts. What would happen if each of us believed–really believed and lived that belief–in the natural and inherent sacredness and nobility and unique potential of each student [...]