Articles tagged Listening
Words, Words, Words – And the Trouble with Them
by Matt
Wednesday, 04 September, 2013
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Wednesday, 04 September, 2013
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Words are hard to use, right? I mean, I think it's hard to write stuff and say stuff because you never know how people are going to, like, take it. There's this one essayist, I like him, named Wendell Berry. He wrote this essay called "Standing by Words," which sounds...
Pig Out on Good Food and Great Ideas
by Jennifer
Tuesday, 13 August, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Tuesday, 13 August, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Imagine a banquet hall with a long table staggering under the weight of varied foods. Imagine a night filled with music, laughter, and stories. Imagine reasoned discourse about the issues of the day and about the nature of man.
In the not too distant past, people...
Learning to Be Musical
by Matt
Wednesday, 31 July, 2013
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
Wednesday, 31 July, 2013
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
You may remember from my previous article that I argued that we are all—barring some handicap—able to be musical. Therefore, I will not go into much detail about that point because that article addresses most of my reasons for believing this. Keeping this in mind,...
Stop Trying to Fix Me and Just Listen!
by Matt
Thursday, 20 June, 2013
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Thursday, 20 June, 2013
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
You’re a fixer. You may not be very good with your hands or with mechanics or with electronics, but you’re a fixer. When your wife or child comes to you with a problem or a complaint, you don’t respond by just feeling their pain, you offer them solutions. It’s what...
Eradicate Truncated Similes for Just 72¢ per Day!
by Brian
Sunday, 24 February, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Sunday, 24 February, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
WARNING: Before you read this article, please know that if you proceed you will inevitably become acutely aware of something that will, henceforth, continually unsettle you. If you are prepared for that eventuality, then read on.
A few years ago, my family and I were...