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Fostering Imagination
Dear Daughter: On Outrage and its Remedy
Dear Daughter, I’m writing to you because I know you’ve been listening. I know it by all the questions you ask. You’ve heard your dad and me talking about presidential candidates, and refugees, and a silverback gorilla. There are other conversations we have kept you from hearing because some things in the world need not trouble you yet. We speak […]
Resources
Explorers, Observers, and Artists
Summer days can provide families with welcome relief from school routines and responsibilities. They can also stretch out like the trackless sea before the weary and overstimulated parent. Nature observation provides an economical, accessiblechange of pace. Highly flexible, it can expand to fill an empty afternoon or contract to fit into a spare fifteen minutes. Keeping an explorers’ bag packed facilitates a hasty escape to the outdoors when the notion strikes and forestalls loss of momentum in the search […]
Warren & the World
The Warren & The World Vol 10, Issue 21
Exploding glass, new songs, prayer, and more. It’s a fascinating week for you. Around the Web “Leaf by Niggle”: Sacrificing Ambition for the Love of a Neighbor Rebekah Mann explores self-sacrifice in Tolkien’s short story. For nerds like myself who casually insert J.R.R. Tolkien into everyday conversation, his name can often be met with disinterest […]
For Kids
Counting Snails
The pandemic was hard. In California, we were in a lockdown. We were essentially constrained to home and short trips to necessary stores. The pandemic was hard on schools; as a headmaster, I was in the role of leading a school, teaching classes, and coordinating my own children’s Zooms and related distance learning. The pandemic […]