Dan Zanes: Night Owl
We are big Dan Zanes fans in our home. We especially love his Sea Music, but the record this song comes from, Night Time, is also pretty great. It even features a Zulu song, which warms my part-African heart. Enjoy!
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Sacred Surprise
Two-year-old Silas stood awaiting his sentence. Someone had committed a crime against household harmony, and he had no alibi. In fact, the Judge had seen Silas do it. Whoever said “Justice is blind” was crazy, he thought. I think Justice has eyes in the back of her head. And she did. Things were not looking…
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The Gift of Grief
It is the business of a sinful world to turn our eyes away from Jesus – to the more pressing, familiar-seeming things around us: “a newsboy shouting the midday paper, and a No. 73 bus going past” (Lewis, The Screwtape Letters). Our work, entertainment, and hobbies act as anesthetics. And like anesthetics, they block pain…
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The Warren and the World Vol. 3
Every Friday we recap a little from the Warren and venture out into the world for more stories you might have missed. Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitude of things. – P.B. Shelley, A Defense of Poetry Dude, you should totally read this: Sarah Bessey recounts 10 books that have helped her as a…
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The Art of Days – Part One
My husband can tell that my annual bout of parenting fatigue has arrived when I lock myself in our bedroom with the laptop and a half-pint of Starbucks Java Chip ice cream. I’ll sit on the bed crying into a soft old t-shirt from college, rattle around YouTube, and occasionally whimper, “I can’t do this…
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Happy Independence Day (From a Brit?)
The independence being celebrated today is, of course, independence from the likes of me (Brits). Excuse me but first of all, what is a Brit doing posting on Independence Day? I know. It’s terribly cheeky but I didn’t do it I was pushed Sam made me do it. Now that we’ve got that out of…
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Member of the Family
Some months ago, my wife and I were reading Eleanor Estes’ charming book Rufus M. We were amazed at one story where Rufus (the youngest of the Moffats and the title character) found some money frozen in the ice. While the rest of his family were busy trying to manage a frozen pipe under the…
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The Warren and the World, Vol 2
Every Friday we recap a little from the Warren and venture out into the world for more stories you might have missed. “I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.” – Frank Capra, Film Director Dude, you should totally read this: Robert Louis Stevenson…
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On Guns and Breakfast and Getting Shot
I woke to the smell of bacon and coffee, familiar and pleasant and full of the promise of a new adventure. Rolling out of my sheet, I tossed my legs to the floor and dragged my boots towards me with my right foot. I slipped into the jeans draped over the foot of the bed…
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The Warren and the World
Every Friday we recap a little from the Warren and venture out into the world for more stories you might have missed. “What a child does not receive, he can seldom later give.” -P. D. James Dude, you should totally read this: Slips of Paper, Bits of Creativity – Art House America Lindsay Crandall captures…
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God Makes Messy Things Beautiful
A few years ago, a seasoned parent and dear friend taught me to say ‘yes’ to my kids as often as possible. “No” is every parent’s invaluable weapon against injury, back talk, obesity, apathy, and just plain rottenness, so we’re going to have to use it plenty… but I try to surprise with a “yes”…
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Speaking of Imagination
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. Henry David Thoreau There is a language of imagination. Let’s call it imaginationish. It’s not actually a language, but more of a universal dialect. It is using words to describe things that the eye does not see, the ear does not hear, the…
