This weekend my friend Dave invited me to attend a leadership course with him up in Santa Rosa. It was an incredible, educational, and humbling experience and I’m really thankful he invited me. I have a lot to think through.

After the course wrapped up Sunday evening I headed across the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco to meet up with a friend from college and hear Trace Bundy play at Café du Nord. Trace is an incredible guitarist and his live shows are always beautiful and fun. He played a couple different things since I saw him play last at Hillsdale last year. My two favorites were his new unnamed song utilizing both his guitars and his rendition of U2’s “Where the Streets Have No Name.” I also got to meet his new, super-cute son, Sawyer.

After the concert I crashed at Dave and Sarah’s place because Sarah and I had some meetings this morning for Rebuild Sudan, a group we’ve both worked with for a little while now. Be sure to check out the site and check back there soon as a lot of exciting stuff is happening, especially with the school we’re building. I’m also now officially on the Board of Advisors.

After the meetings the three of us watched a documentary called Waiting for “Superman.” It is an excellent documentary that exposes the problems with America’s public school system and how so many people who claim to want the best for our nation’s children are really more interested in maintaining an often-corrupt system that rewards mediocrity and excellence equally. You can check out the trailer here.