Earlier this month, I was elected to my church’s Board of Trustees….
…A week later, I was invited to a new critique group….
…Recently, I was given incredible leeway in refactoring a major project at work….
People keep giving me opportunities. And that feeling that it’s all undeserved? Still it remains.
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The Alamo church.[/caption]
“Remember the Alamo” has two primary connotations, depending on the audience. It’s either a jingoistic rallying cry, a justification for the incursion of white settlers into Spanish-held territory. Or, if you’re a certain kind of Texan, it’s a reminder of the nobility of sacrifice, when things are worth fighting for.
Not being Texan myself, nor a believer in the peculiarly American kind of Manifest Destiny, I fall into the former category.