Whether it's through the interaction with powerful rodeo animals, or the slower process of experiencing life's journeys and changes, we all regularly push the limits of motion.
DARRELL PETRY
As a young man, Darrell Petry left his family’s ranch and moved to Houston. But the flash and glamor of city living drained his emotional core, and Darrel realized he wanted to return to his roots, and commit to his family’s rodeo heritage.
He was recently re-elected to the position of SW Director of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, making him the first Black man to hold this prestigious position. Identity politics play a role in his life, and Darrell considers himself fortunate to represent cowboys, his family, and his town.
Science in Everyday Life
RECOMMENDED BOOKS AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Consider these titles for your Motion theme book selection. Full descriptions of each book and suggested discussion questions can be found in the download file at the bottom of the page.
The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown. (Non-fiction)
Out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times - the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant.
Double Star, by Robert Heinlein. (Fiction)
Actor Lorenzo Smythe is shanghaied to Mars and finds himself agreeing to impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. Smythe's own life was on the line, and there is always the possibility that he might be trapped in his new role forever!
Master and Commander, by Patrick O’Brian. (Fiction)
The first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of daily life and battle aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered.
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, by Margot Lee Shetterly. (Non fiction)
The never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program.
Moving from World War II through NASA’s golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women’s rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a rich history of scientific achievement and technological innovation with the intimate stories of five women whose work forever changed the world.
Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer. (Non Fiction)
An epic account of the May 1996 disaster that took five lives of a team scaling Mt. Everest, and which left countless more - including Krakauer - in guilt-ridden disarray,
The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins. (Fiction)
Rachel feels like she knows the people who live in one of the houses she sees during her daily commuter train ride. Then she sees something shocking Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she’s only watched from afar. Now they’ll see; she’s much more than just the girl on the train.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce. (Fiction)
Harold Fry receives a letter from a woman he hasn't seen or heard from in twenty years. And thus begins the unlikely pilgrimage. Harold Fry is determined to walk six hundred miles from Kingsbridge to the hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed because, he believes, as long as he walks, Queenie Hennessey will live.
Out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times - the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant.
Double Star, by Robert Heinlein. (Fiction)
Actor Lorenzo Smythe is shanghaied to Mars and finds himself agreeing to impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. Smythe's own life was on the line, and there is always the possibility that he might be trapped in his new role forever!
Master and Commander, by Patrick O’Brian. (Fiction)
The first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of daily life and battle aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered.
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, by Margot Lee Shetterly. (Non fiction)
The never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program.
Moving from World War II through NASA’s golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women’s rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a rich history of scientific achievement and technological innovation with the intimate stories of five women whose work forever changed the world.
Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer. (Non Fiction)
An epic account of the May 1996 disaster that took five lives of a team scaling Mt. Everest, and which left countless more - including Krakauer - in guilt-ridden disarray,
The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins. (Fiction)
Rachel feels like she knows the people who live in one of the houses she sees during her daily commuter train ride. Then she sees something shocking Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she’s only watched from afar. Now they’ll see; she’s much more than just the girl on the train.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce. (Fiction)
Harold Fry receives a letter from a woman he hasn't seen or heard from in twenty years. And thus begins the unlikely pilgrimage. Harold Fry is determined to walk six hundred miles from Kingsbridge to the hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed because, he believes, as long as he walks, Queenie Hennessey will live.