Reposting this one as I am reminded daily of its relevance in our lives and our work.
Learning with Abandon: 4th of July Slip-n-Slide
I love that my daughter has the ability to throw herself at an activity with abandon. She can become immersed, single-minded, absorbed.We spent the Fourth of July in Norris, TN. Only briefly in mourning because the drought conditions forced the town to postpone the fireworks, she quickly found the slip-n-slide.She went down many times, waiting […]
Student-Athlete Signing Day Talk
(I spoke at the Student Athlete Signing Day event on Wednesday at The Westminster Schools in Atlanta where 20 students or roughly ten percent of our Senior class signed on to participate in college athletics. I drifted a bit from the words I had written down in advance, but what I include here is for […]
“How would it be if we lived in that castle?”: A Five Year Old Films and Narrates
As we head into summer, I am ready to do some new exploring with my daughter who will turn 10 in July. We’ll make sure to do some filming if only so I can preserve her wonderful narration.
Message For Our New School Webpage
[At Westminster we are in the final stage of preparing a new website. As many readers will already know such work is remarkably demanding and multi-faceted, and among its complex tasks is creating engaging new content for the school’s web-presence. Our Communications Team has been doing great work preparing to unveil the web-page, and their […]
The Purpose of Connection: A Cum Laude Induction Speech
[I posted an early version of a Cum Laude speech last fall. It was a fragment of a speech I abandoned for another. As we have two of these ceremonies each year, I revisited it for the most recent induction ceremony although I changed its original direction completely. I have been thinking recently about how […]