NOTE: This meditation by our friend Glenn seems even more needed now than when we first ran it in 2016. Enjoy! At the bottom of the map in the front of the splendid new edition of Tolkien’s The … Read More ...
Fostering Imagination
Playing (Your Own) Role
From an early age, we understand people by the roles they play. This can be a good way to learn. It can expand our imaginations, and help us aspire to virtues we might not otherwise think about. Filling the role of father, for example, has motivated me to pursue gentleness. No other circumstance had made […]
Resources
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Children believe in the impossible. Stories with heroes who face hardship, setbacks, and even defeat win their instant sympathy and when those heroes overcome, succeed and rise to fame and fortune, the child, who has been the hero’s fan from the start, is strengthened in the conviction that anything can happen if you try. I […]
Warren & the World
The Warren & The World Vol 10, Issue 2
There’s a forecast of snow and ice for my weekend and I’m beginning to feel like a kid again…I don’t have anywhere to go and I’m just waiting for a white world. Around the Web On Poetry, Programming, Chaos, and Cosmos My friend Micah Hawkinson is a man who builds worlds of pure thought-stuff…both in […]
For Kids
You Are Loved
Here’s a new song from the decks of spaceship JUNIPER!