Building a foundation for generosity
Why not give more?
As part of their visit to Episcopal High School, the Buddhist monks taught the art of constructing sand mandalas through demonstration. Days of demonstration.
Saint Simon and Saint. Jude *sound* familiar, but beyond associating the latter with St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, most of us can’t tell you much about either.
We spend a LOT of time on output. We say a lot, post a lot, create a lot, do a lot, lecture our kids a lot (just me?), email a lot, text a lot, help a lot… but what is our input like?
I read somewhere that Saint Mark the Evangelist is the patron saint of people dealing with insect bites.
We are inching ever-closer to the “first Tuesday after the first Monday in the month of November,” and whether you live in one of the five states that vote by post, plan to early vote, or are an enthusiastic wait-in-line, sticker-wearing, day-of participant, our most notorious opportunity for civic engagement is upon us.
“As soon as you’re a parent, you have this fear that you’re going to f*ck it all up.” —Dax Shepard,
Our family has decided that we are #frontyardpeople. We are a family who deliberately spends time in our front yard
What do you need to adopt about your home and about yourself as a parent or spouse to have the kind of home you want?