Category: Education

  • aging wonder

    aging wonder

    New year reflections on a cool winter morning in January. My resolution commitment in 2013 will be to see wonder in all things — known or unknown.

  • widening circles

    widening circles

    “I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I give myself to it.” Excerpt from Das Stunden-Buch (The Book of Hours) by poet Rainer Maria Rilke and read on NPR today by the philosopher of ecology and translator Joanna Macy. Reflecting on…

  • growing possibilities

    growing possibilities

    I came home one afternoon to find three neighborhood kids with sticks in hand and the windows of our garage broken. I asked them if they knew who broke the windows. The littlest, age 3, nodded and pointed at his brother. His brother, age 12, told a very different story. The sister, age 8, looked…

  • education: a letter to my brother & sister

    Hey dude & dudette. May I share something with you about education? Not many people know about it yet. Yes? If so, read on… On a small scale, top shelf education is now being offered online for free. On a larger scale, I believe and some others agree, that this is the beginning of a…