Posted in Quote of the Day on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
G.K. Chesterton’s 134th birthday was yesterday. Here are some of his education quotes compiled by Dana Gage:
According to Chesterton, understanding the facts is more important than knowing the facts.
Histories seem to have completely forgotten two things—first, that men act from ideas; and second, that it might, therefore, be as well to discover which ideas.
If you [...]
Posted in AMUSEMENT: "Muse" Means to Think and "A" Means... on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…and have really fine-tuned the process, perhaps you find parenting boring. Perhaps you are looking for a new challenge. It’s for real. Some of you may want this to prepare for parenting. Be sure to watch the video.
Posted in Goings On, Pilgrimesque on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve lost almost all contact with old friends AC and Keri Caincross. I was AC’s best man years ago. I just found out that they lost their little two-year-old girl Cheyenne this weekend to complications from Sandhoff disease. This is their second child to die as a toddler from this disease.
AC is the pastor [...]
Posted in Pilgrimesque, Pleased with God, Quote of the Day on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Michael P. V. Barrett on What is the Gospel?
“In simplest terms, the gospel is Christ. Too often the gospel is defined in terms of its benefits, results, and attendant circumstances without placing the essentially necessary focus on the person and work of Jesus Christ. The gospel is not ‘come to Jesus and be saved.’ The [...]
Posted in Pleased with God on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our God is in the heavens doing whatsoever He pleases. He’s probably roaring at what He did on the Christmas Islands. It gets even crazier at about the 2:00 min. mark.
Posted in From the Backseat on May 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Tonight’s after-dinner conversation…
Me: Haddon, are you ready to move to Tennessee?
Haddon: Yes, but it kind of makes me sad.
Me: Why?
Haddon: Because they don’t have snow!
Me: Right. That’s kind of sad.
Haddon (walking away from the conversation): At least they have air there.
Posted in Family, Pleased with God on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We have been watching a nest of four killdeer eggs for serveral weeks. Two of them opened or cracked prematurely, so we were waiting on the two. This morning Karsten called me from home and excitedly announced that the remaining two had hatched. I was there in minutes. They get cuter as [...]
Posted in Pleased with God, Variety Pack on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Grab some tissues. Have a good sob. Celebrate the sacrifice by going to a parade on Monday.
Soldier Surprises His Son
Posted in Pilgrimesque, Pleased with God on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A fellow Nashvillian talks about how he’s starting to “get it” this Memorial Day.
Posted in AMUSEMENT: "Muse" Means to Think and "A" Means..., The Things of This World on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s an intercontinental telescope–a Telectroscope–that allows viewers in NY and London to view each other in real time.
Here’s the website. Here’s what the Times wrote.
Posted in Pilgrimesque, Pleased with God on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is just usually a lot less temporal than this.
Posted in Patriarchy on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Narnia is too important a story to mess up by watching the director’s impressions of the thoroughly God-soaked themes. Read it first.
Posted in Classical Education, Patriarchy, Quote of the Day on May 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I quoted this thought from John Adams in SS on Sunday without remembering who said it.
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children [...]
Posted in AMUSEMENT: "Muse" Means to Think and "A" Means..., Quote of the Day on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jim Leyland, manager of the Detroit Tigers on baseball’s new directive to managers to jog out to the mound to help increase the speed of the game.
“They want me to run to the mound. I smoke three packs a day and they want me to run back and forth to the mound? What the heck [...]
Posted in AMUSEMENT: "Muse" Means to Think and "A" Means... on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Pilgrimesque, Quote of the Day on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Louis Pasteur…
“The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.”
Posted in AMUSEMENT: "Muse" Means to Think and "A" Means... on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
That’s their slogan. This commercial is from a British fishery.
Posted in Goings On on May 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I will be in Nashville Monday and Tuesday since we still have not secured housing (and we are moving there June 2). Please pray that God would go before me and lay out His plan for us–God has mercifully kept us from two separate houses that we called “pretty sure things” and would have [...]
Posted in Classical Education, Patriarchy, Pilgrimesque, Quote of the Day on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
C.S. Lewis…
“The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”
Posted in Variety Pack on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
TBAP is turning two, and I forgot to buy a TBAP cake. We know we’ve been around a long time because when we started gas was $2.80/gallon. Actually that’s not saying much since it moves so quickly, but you can see how everyone is starting to mark the passing of time by the [...]
Posted in Love in Trifles on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
how Edison handled his assistant who broke the important light bulb, then I wouldn’t have asked Haddon to go back to the basement frig to get some more eggs this morning.
Posted in Family on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This morning I went in to take a picture of the sweetest little baby in the world. He was still sleeping; it was low light; I was using my camera phone; I was trying to be still and quiet. Right as I was positioning myself…he smiled. Then here’s another picture of Knox and Chrissy.
Posted in AMUSEMENT: "Muse" Means to Think and "A" Means..., Quote of the Day on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
George Burns…
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
Posted in Photoblogomous, Pleased with God on May 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This Chilean volcano got in the way of a magnificent thunderstorm. Here’s the story. Here are three pictures.
HT: Buffy Moody
Posted in Classical Education, Quote of the Day on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Aristotle says what hopefully is true for your kid’s teacher:
“Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
Posted in AMUSEMENT: "Muse" Means to Think and "A" Means... on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is what they used to look like (and maybe how it will be again soon).
Posted in The Things of This World, Variety Pack on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
about oil.
Posted in Pilgrimesque, Variety Pack on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Duggars are serious about kids being a reward…and they want more. Discovery even built them a cool website.
Posted in Classical Education, Family on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some churches/individuals have real issues amongst the families who chose different educational options, and it’s a great idea for pastors to address the big idea.
Josh Harris did.
Posted in Biographical, Classical Education, Recommendation on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just read the books, tell you and leave the summaries to others. Here is a book review of Marsden’s great biography.
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