Every Friday we recap a little from the Warren and venture out into the world for more stories you might have missed. “I have always believed, it is not so much their subjects that the great teachers teach as it is themselves.” – Fredrick Buechner Dude, you should totally read this: Rachel at Heirs With […]
Accepting Defeat: Olympic Lessons for Losers
Last week’s Olympics post focused on having fun with the Games as a family. But the world’s biggest competition can show us more than just humanity’s highest jumpers and fastest swimmers. In the midst of the gold-medal frenzy, the Olympics give us plenty of material for helping kids to understand the importance of losing. Losing […]
“And Every Hair is Numbered, Just Like Every…”
Bob Dylan sang about it, N.D. Wilson tweets about it: “Slice the world as fine as you like, an Artist has been there first.” NDW By the way, check out N.D. Wilson’s Notes From the Tilt-A-Whirl for a round-trip through wonder, joy, and gratitude. Wilson is a poetic, artful, humorous tour-guide. It’s one of my […]
Let There Be Play –Jennifer Trafton on “Holy Silliness”
Jennifer Trafton has a happy habit of hitting the nail on the head. Below, I share a poignant portion of an astonishingly good read on Children’s Stories, Imagination, and Joy at the Center of Creation. I would urge parents to read it and then march forth and post-haste feed your children’s souls on stories and […]
The Warren and the World, Vol 6
Every Friday we recap a little from the Warren and venture out into the world for more stories you might have missed. In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like a night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who […]
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