The museum deals in the primary theoretical and historical. But the grocery store, and the garage, and the kitchen table… they deal primarily in the practical, real-life sorts of things that every kid (and many adults) needs to learn.
Category: Diversions
A quality (free) education.
Our culture says we learn the really important things by taking classes at schools that we pay for. I’m not sold. Instead, I’m now looking for opportunities for my kids to have the same kinds of hand-on learning I got as a teenager.
Power over the wind and the sea. (Be still.)
it may be how you’re feeling today. You’re searching for a reprieve from the craziness of your life, but sitting here this moment, your to-do list screams in your ear. There is some great demand on your energy—your emotional energy—that like a wind that won’t stop blowing, threatens to knock you over.
Three surprising [free] web tools I use [almost] every day.
It’s amazing how much stuff is free online these days… and a lot of it is worthless. But occasionally I stumble across a resource so great, I end up using it regularly in ministry. Here are three of my favorites right now.
A whole lotta judgin’ going on.
For some reason, it seems really important to know the eternal destiny of him, or her, or that guy on TV… but the important question is not about him, it’s about me. So how do we know if we’re sons of God?