By CircleReader
|
April 9, 2008
The church is Catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does belongs to all. When she baptizes a child, that action concerns me; for that child is thereby connected to that body which is my head too, and ingrafted into that body whereof I am a member.
And when she buries a man, that […]
By CircleReader
|
February 12, 2008
The weekend of Earth Day, 2007, marked the grand opening of the Aldo Leopold Legacy Center. The building, on the Leopold family land in sandy Sauk County, Wisconsin, is a marvel of “green” building, LEED Platinum level certified, more than carbon neutral, and actually producing more energy than it consumes! The day’s agenda included […]
By CircleReader
|
January 28, 2008
Now that American Gladiators is over (go, Wolf!), we are sitting in the living room watching the State of the Union Address. For us, this has become an Event, like the World Series or the Olympics. It is something bigger than our family, something that we share with our kids and try hard to help […]
By CircleReader
|
December 19, 2007
On this sand farm in Wisconsin, first worn out and then abandoned by our bigger-and-better society, we try to rebuild, with shovel and axe, what we are losing elsewhere. It is here that we seek — and still find — our meat from God.
So Aldo Leopold introduced his series of “shack sketches,” arranged by season in A Sand County […]
By CircleReader
|
November 16, 2007
It makes a sensational, controversial headline: A Harry Potter-centered curriculum boosts a failing school into the top 5 percent. Students must recite a spell (“numerus subtracticus”) when answering math questions.
But on closer inspection, this turns out not to be just a school carried off into frightening conformity to the current fad. Whatever you […]
By CircleReader
|
August 9, 2007
The literacy of children thus follows the passions and engagements of the parents, and starts where they are.
