August 2014 Bits and Clips
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Here are the articles, blogs, podcasts and videos from this month that I felt were worth sharing. I hope you find something enjoyable, inspiring, intriguing or enlightening:
Art:
Photography:
Spirituality:
- Being What We Wish to See Expressed
- Beyond Helping Ourselves
- Podcast: Insist Vehemently
- Church, Here is Why People Are Leaving You
- Is the Proof of Heaven? A Brain Surgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife
- In Perfect Balance
- 9 Signs Your Church is Ready to Reach Unchurched People
- Is Love Actually All We Need?
- Eyes are for Seeing the Truth
- 10 Cultural Trends Church Leaders Can’t Ignore (but Might)
Ideas (Education and Parenting):
- 12 Reasons to Take Your Kids Around the World
- Unprepared: Rob Lowe on Sending His Son Off to College
- 27 Ways to Teach Math With Legos
- One Letter to Read Before Sending Your Child to School
- Homeschooling for Critical Consciousness
- We Don’t Need No Education
- The Return of the One Room Schoolhouse
- Ten Ways to Fix the Mess that is Kindergarten
- Putting the A in STEAM
Ideas (other):
- What Lies Beneath Stonehenge?
- Players Build Working Hard Drives Inside Minecraft
- Building a Divorce-Proof Marriage
- Hello, Stranger
- Little Known Story about Robin Williams
- Math’s Highest Honor is Given to a Woman for the First Time
- 10 Ways to Be Happier in Your Home
- Suicide: A Crime of Loneliness
- Do’s and Don’t of Suicide Prevention
- Bottled Water Comes from the Most Drought-Ridden Places in the Country
- Great Train Rides: Run Away on the Rails
- Every Good Boy Does Fine
- Martha Beck: How to Turn Accidents into Miracles
- Julia Child’s Recipe for Entrepreneurial Success
Books:
- Book Review: Excellent Sheep: Miseducation of America’s Elite
- “Lisette’s List” Aimed at Francophiles and Art Lovers
- Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Memoir to be Published
Movies:
Food:
- This is What a More Sustainable Food System Looks Like
- Here’s the Cheap Way to Avoid Chemicals in Your Food
- Cheap Eats: Cookbook Shows How to Eat Well on a Food Stamp Budget
- Recipe: Salty Sweet Roasted Cabbage
- Recipe: Cherry Tomatoes and Cream
Poetry:
Hope:
- California’s “Yes Means Yes” Bill
- More than 60 Years Later, A Love Note From a Familiar Stranger
- Joanna Macy: From the Great Unraveling to the Great Turning
- See Through Solar Cells Could Turn Your Windows Into Power Stations
- This Girl was Swept Away in a Tsunami 10 YearsAgo; Now She is United With Her Family
- How Unlikely Partners Came Together on a Maine River
- The Greening of the Self
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