Bits and Clips for May 2015
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You can see it has been a full month! 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, helpful or enlightening:
Art:
- How to Perfect Your Proportion
- 9 Things You Didn’t Know About the Artist Kandinsky
- Do Touch the Artwork at Prado’s Exhibit for the Blind
- Video: Gravity Glue
- How to Photograph Your Artwork
- 19 Free Art Museums You Should Visit This Summer
Photography:
Spirituality:
- Unique and Eternal
- Inspired and Healed After a Fall
- 10 Spiritual Quotes to Uplift Your Day
- Graduation and The Best Advice
- Hour Long Podcast: Defend Yourself Daily with Prayer
- 64th Annual National Day of Prayer
- Cut Out the Babble
- The Why of Prayer
- Do You Want Your Child to Thrive?
- Aggressive Symptoms of Disease Healed
- Video: The Gentle Art of Blessing
- The Divine Ego or Father
- Circle of Insight: What is Christian Science
- Talking to Your Teen About Instagram and Perfection
Ideas:
- Dear Homeschool Mama, From a Homeschooled Daughter
- This is the Best Explanation of Gerrymandering You will Ever See
- The Muddied Meaning of ‘Mindfulness’
- Message to My Freshmen Students
- 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Math
- The Golden Path of Perfect Parenting
- Ten Warren Buffet Quotes
- Early Academic Training Produces Long Term Harm
- Do Human Rights Increase Inequality?
- A Surprising Approach to Sibling Rivalry
- How Forests Breathe for the Planet
- 31 Cool Water Parks to Visit with Your Kids
- Video: Nature is Speaking: Julia Roberts as Mother Nature
- 5 Ways to Get Your Child’s Attention Without Yelling
- “It’s For You To Know That /you Forgive,” Say a Holocaust Survivor
- Kid Who Got into Every Ivy League School is Going to the University of Alabama and it is a Brilliant Decision
- Harry Truman’s Extreme Home Makeover
- This Really Isn’t Kindergarten Anymore
- How Not to Raise a Perfectionist
- American Girls Are Not Radical Anymore
- What Does College Ready Really Mean
- 12 Habits of Exceptional Leaders
- Open Letter to a Nursery School Mom from a 6th Grade Mom
- Political Cartoons in the Christian Science Monitor
- To the Moms of Almost Grown Up Kids
- Newly Discovered Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain reveal ‘identity crisis’
- Americans Gave their Lives to Defeat the Nazi’s and the Dutch Have Never Forgotten
Books:
- New York Times Columnist David Brooks Explores Sin and Virtue in a new book “The Road to Character”
- Notable Summer Reads for Outdoors Families
- The Mystery of the Hardy Boys and the Invisible Authors
- Classic Literature for Middle School
- Books That Shaped Harvard Professors
- Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in an Age of Google
- Picture book on Henri Matisse: The Iridescence of Birds
Movies:
Food:
- Video: The Organic Effect
- Recipe: Cheesy Vegetarian Nacho Casserole
- Americans Are Learning More About Food and Eating Better
- How to Eat Healthy Meals at Restaurants
- 8 Healthy Fast Food Chains
- Recipe: Caramel Stuffed Sea Salt Brownies
- Recipe: Salted Chocolate Chunk Cookies
- Recipe: Creamy Macaroni and Cheese
Poetry:
- Feasting on Every Green Moment
- An Astonished Awakening
- William Faulkner Makes Us Wonder: What’s so Great About Poetry, Anyhow?
- Embracing All the Layers of Your Life
Hope:
- A Potential Game-changer in a Global Fight Against Extreme Poverty
- The International Flag of the Earth
- As Chipotle Goes GMO-Free, Monsanto’s Biggest Fear is Coming True
- Enjoying College Without Alcohol
- One Woman’s Letter to Her Ex-Husband’s Wife
- New Your Turns out the Lights for Birds
- Plan bee: White House Unveils Strategy to Protect Pollinators
- Legislature Restores Some Funding for State Library System
- Pope Francis says Atheists Who Do Good are Redeemed, Not Just Catholics
- How Utah Reduced Homelessness by More than 90 Percent
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