Scott’s Picks

Magazine : National Geographic February Issue
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Anatomy of a Mystery … Secrets of the Brain. With all the talk around health care, we’re still advancing rapidly in research. Here is a fascinating article. The color of thought. With new technologies scientists are able to shed light on life’s greatest unsolved mystery. How the mind really works. The brains many regions are [...]

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Museum Tower – A Higher Perspective
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A Higher Perspective Time to put all this to bed. I feel from the other side, behind the veil, Ray Nasher is smiling. He likes this new addition to his sculpture garden called Museum Tower. What is sculpture? What is art? Maybe it’s time to get a little philosophical here and shed some light (no [...]

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Restaurants : Lakewood Chipotle
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It’s open… Chipotle Lakewood! Ours is actually very beautiful. With all the Mexican restaurants here in Dallas, I have come to Love this simple and delicious eatery. The place I go to fulfill my Mexican food craving. Fresh food, fast, nice environment and no TV’s. Many changes here and lots happening in our wonderful neighborhood. [...]

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Clip : What Happens When A Kid Leaves Traditional Education
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With all the talk of Lakewood Elementary School succeeding from DISD, we thought we would share this remarkable video demonstrating some of the brilliance of today’s alternative teaching. This video is a much experience…Us adults can learn a whole lot from these beautiful, focused and happy children! Logan Laplante is a 13 year-old boy who [...]

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Movie : Her
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This is a must see. Powerful, creative, brilliant, profound, beautiful, crazy, sweet, stunning, wild, scary and just plain marvelous. Set in the Los Angeles of the slight future, the story follows Theodore Twombly, a complex, soulful man who makes his living writing touching, personal letters for other people. Heartbroken after the end of a long [...]

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Book : The First Phone Call From Heaven
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One of my Favorite Authors… Mitch has done it again. This book is very clever and profound. I love how he weaves this story along through the history of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell and his love for his deaf wife, and the idea of life after death. A fun read. One morning in the [...]

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Magazine : Time Person of the Year Pope Francis
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This issue is filled with lots of history and details of the Papacy and the Catholic Church as well as insight into this beautiful and enlightened leader. I haven’t been this excited about spirituality since my first trip to India 20 years ago. The Peoples Pope, Pope Francis. From this name follows much of Francis’ [...]

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Movie : Frozen
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Just in case you didn’t get enough of the ice over the weekend, here is a beautiful and delightful movie you can see with your kids. Hey adults this is a great date night movie as well. Seriously, people are seeing this movie 2 or 3 times. Anna, a fearless optimist, sets off on an [...]

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Movie : Saving Mr. Banks
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Disney’s “Saving Mr. Banks,” inspired by the extraordinary, untold backstory of how Disney’s classic “Mary Poppins” made it to the screen. When Walt Disney’s daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers’ “Mary Poppins,” he made them a promise—one that he didn’t realize would take 20 years to keep. In [...]

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Book : Profiles in Courage
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Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage served as a clarion call to every American. The inspiring true accounts of eight unsung heroic acts by American patriots at different junctures in our nation’s history, Kennedy’s book became required reading, an instant classic, and [...]

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