Monthly Archives: March 2007

Bye-Bye Alicia Arnott

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Rainbow Wahine volleyball senior Alicia Arnott will not be returning to the team for her senior year. After having a breakout freshman year, and then leading the team in kills during her sophomore year, she took on a reduced role during her junior year after being pushed down on the depth chart with the arrival of Sarah Mason and Jamie Houston. She redshirted this past season.

I don’t know what the circumstances are behind her decision to leave the team (and quite frankly it isn’t any of my business), so I’ll just stop here and wish her the best of luck in the future. I personally hope we find her on the roster of another Division I program by this upcoming fall.

“High Flight” by John Magee

Just Thoughts, Music, ,
(Photo by Muriel Gottrop)
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunwards I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds – and done a thousand things
You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hovering there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air,
Up, up the long delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,
Where never lark, or even eagle, flew;
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of god.

Maybe I should become a Navy pilot and become one of America’s millions of heroes who serve or served in the armed forces, along with my cousin Soyong.