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Another Essential Childhood "Vaccine"
In a comment on my previous post , my sister-in-law introduced me to Vicki Hoefle. In trying to figure out how to add a video link to...
sursumcorda, 27 January 2018 |
The Let Grow Project for Schools
It's the American way, and even more so the Japanese way, and apparently the Swiss way also: the professionalism of parenthood. School...
Carl Lutz, Hero and Human
Carl Lutz , together with his wife, Gertrud , was instrumental in rescuing some 62,000 of Budapest's Jews from the Nazis, after he was...
My Grandparents' Rochester
In 1944, my grandparents moved across the continent from Pullman, Washington to Rochester, New York, where my grandfather worked until...
Reading Challenge
Since mid-November, my reading has been rather light, there being nothing intellectually challenging about my last 13 books. (Well,...
Oxymoronic Jeans
I need new jeans. This is a perennial situation; I've been looking for new jeans for years, waiting for comfort to come back in style. I...
The Next Green Ember Book Is Coming
I've been waiting over a year for the next book in the S. D. Smith's Green Ember series. As I said at the end of my review...
Chez Stücklin
On an out-of-the-way street in a suburb of Lucerne, Switzerland, hides a small, by-invitation-only restaurant called Chez Stücklin...
MarbleLympics
I guess I should end this year with a serious post, some profound commentary, philosophy, or at least a glimpse into my hopes and dreams...
Jammin'
What happens when good quality musical instruments are found under the Christmas tree. I'm sorry for the back-of-the-head shots, but if...
On What Were Called Cassette Tapes
Famed theologian Dr. R. C. Sproul once said to us that the first question he'd ask God on arriving in heaven was, "Why sin?" I can...
For Our Trumpet Players
Especially for Faith. How does he DO that ?
Let Grow
Lenore Skenazy has a new site (relatively new—I've fallen a bit behind) called Let Grow . I haven't explored much yet, but...
Some Things Are Hard to Sing
That word above all earthly powers, no thanks to them, abideth; The Spirit and the gifts are ours through Him Who with us sideth:...
Me, Too - After Some Thought
At first I didn't participate in the "Me Too" campaign on Facebook (and elsewhere)—meant to reveal the magnitude of the problem of...
Conversation Skills
I haven't forgotten my Seven Days of Thanksgiving series. Those posts take more time to write than I have right now ... maybe I'll...
Royal Genealogy
With the engagement of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle making the news, and my old friend Gary Boyd Roberts * and the New England...
Life in Chains, Part 2
It's time to bring back this quote from Joel Salatin. On every side, our paternalistic culture is tightening the noose around...
Plus Ça Change ... Yet Again
This is the third time I've used that handy title for a post. It may be recursive. The inspiration for this occasion is a lament...
Seven Days of Thanksgiving - Day 3 - Singing
I was going to make this Day of Thanksgiving about music in general, for which I am indeed very thankful. I have to admit that I usually...
Life in Chains
This observation needs reviving again, from John Caldwell Holt. One of the saddest things I've learned in my life, one of the...
Seven Days of Thanksgiving - Day 2 - Clean Water, and an...
Clean water, coming freely—hot or cold—at a touch, on demand. Not just for my community, but at our own house—several...
Seven Days of Thanksgiving - Day 1 - Reliable Electricity
Inspired by my previous post, Presents of Mind , and a few incidents this year that left me temporarily without blessings which I...
Presents of Mind
The Charlotte, North Carolina, area is home to some of my favorite people, so when I saw that this video came from Charlotte, I was...
The Fall of Heaven
The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran by Andrew Scott Cooper (Henry Holt, 2016) People...