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Purity & Love

February 14, 2014

“If only you saw what I can see, you’d understand why I need your modesty.”

So… virtue = being careful to stay out of the way of the sinfulness of young men. “That’s what makes you beautiful.” Got it.

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Shelved with: Hearts & Minds|| Parenting|| Word in the World|| Reading the Word
Tagged With: Valentine's Day, Virtue, Sex, Psychology, Parenting, Marriage, Holidays, Gender
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Hope

Why Hope Isn’t Always a Good Thing

January 22, 2013

Hope isn’t wishful thinking. It’s full of requirements.

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Shelved with: Hearts & Minds|| Community & Time
Tagged With: Virtue, Politics, Hope
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Epiphanies, Not Resolutions

January 13, 2013

These are the questions of the New Year, and of the Seasons of Winter & Epiphany, as the days grow long & longer: Are you still seeking? What is your guide? What gifts do you bring?

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Shelved with: Mind & Society|| Hearts & Minds|| Word in Season|| Reading the Word
Tagged With: Holidays, New Year's Day, Epiphany, Church Year, Seasons
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Rodin, "The Gates of Hell"

Rodin’s Thinking Poet

November 13, 2012

For Rodin the sculptor, every aspect of action, character, and spirit that he wanted to convey had to be embodied in the physical form of his works. It’s a reminder to us that we, too, are bodily works.

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Shelved with: Visions & Ventures|| Hearts & Minds|| Visual Arts
Tagged With: models, sculpture, arts, embodiment
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Steve Jobs: Connecting the Dots

May 19, 2012

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

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Reading & Writing is for everyone!

World Read Aloud Day: March 7, 2012 — Register Now!

February 20, 2012

On March 7, 2012, LitWorld will sponsor the third annual World Read Aloud Day, and they are hoping to reach at least a million people to help support a global literacy movement. How can you participate?

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Shelved with: Literacy|| Literacy|| The Reading Life|| Hearts & Minds
Tagged With: WRAD, Reading Aloud, Literacy, Holidays
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Bugs Bunny Stole My Cognitive Surplus!

July 27, 2010

Bugs Bunny’s first appearance, July 27th, 1940, was nominated for an academy award.

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Shelved with: Visions & Ventures|| Mind & Society|| Hearts & Minds|| Visual Arts
Tagged With: Television, Psychology, Holidays, History, Culture, Cognitive Surplus, Bugs Bunny
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Every Title the Story of a Reader

June 9, 2010

The true measure of Donalyn Miller’s students’ reading is shown in the challenges they set themselves, the new patterns & experiences they explored, and the richness of the “you had to be there” moments they shared.

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Shelved with: Literacy|| Education|| The Reading Life|| Hearts & Minds

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The Play’s the Thing

May 7, 2010

That we can watch such things for free over the internet via PBS is something for which I am immensely grateful. That this is just one more story we share as a family – that’s priceless.

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Shelved with: Literature|| Visions & Ventures|| The Reading Life|| Local Life
Tagged With: web, Stories, Shakespeare, film
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Boy. Dog.

March 13, 2010

A couple scenes from life with the new puppy.

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Shelved with: Local Life|| Hearts & Minds
Tagged With: Dakota Shepherd, Dog, Puppy, Pets, Parenting
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Gaylord Nelson at Wyaslung State Park

Madison Reads Leopold, 2010

March 6, 2010

“Yearly, the feathered tempest roared up, down, and across the continent, sucking up the laden fruits of forest and prairie, burning them in a traveling blast of life….”

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Shelved with: Hearts & Minds|| Reading the Land|| Local Life
Tagged With: Spring, Reading Aloud, Holidays, Environment, Aldo Leopold
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Little Things

November 14, 2009

For me, microbiology always communicates a sense of secret revelation – it is so intimate, our very flesh & blood, and yet so intricate and strange. What a wonder to be able to see some small portion of the invisible entities that underlie our physical life!

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Shelved with: Biology|| Education|| The Book of Nature|| Hearts & Minds
Tagged With: Zirus Inc., Virus, Threshold Concepts, Science, NPR, Microbiology, Data Visualization
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