Bits and Clips for September 2014
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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:
- This Teacher Quit Her Job to Pursue Painting and Now Her Pieces Sell for $100,000
- The Healing Power of Art: Can Hospital Collections Help?
- Simplifying With a Drywall Knife
- Real Life Journals Post: Catch up From a Busy Week
- Top 10 Skills Children Learn from the Arts
- Inside the Factory Where Crayons are Made
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Spirituality:
Ideas:
- Starting College: A Guide For Parents in 2014
- Map Shows All The Devices in the World Attached to the Internet
- Charlotte Mason: Why Did She Have to Say That?
- Why Safety is Bad for Children
- 8 Things You Didn’t Know About the Autumnal Equinox
- 10 Habits You Should Pick Up From Your Grandmother
- 7 Strange Questions That Help You Find You Life Purpose
- 30 Most Jaw-Dropping Hiking Trails Around the Globe
- 15 Life Lessons a Dad Wishes He Had Learned Earlier
- America: He’s Your President for Goodness Sakes!
- How to Turn Your School Into a Maker Haven
- What Kind of Laundry Soap is Lightest on the Land?
- Chart: The Minimum Wage in America is Low Compared to Other Countries
- 15 Things You Don’t Owe Anyone at All
Books:
- The Guggenheim Puts 109 Free Modern Art Books Online
- Middle School Reading Lists: 100 Years Ago Vs. Today
Food:
- 27 of the Most Delicious Things You Can Do To Vegetables
- Recipe: Carrot Cake Pecan Cookies with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting
- How to Make Delicious Tofu
- Recipe: Avocado Tofu Lentil Burgers
- Recipe: Cinnamon and Spice Sweet Potato Bread
- Carrot Cake Recipes that Make Every Other Cake Bow Down
- The Science Behind Baking Your Ideal Chocolate Chip Cookie
- France’s Top Chef Reduces Amount of Meat on the Menu
- Dehydrate Your Way to Green Powder
Poetry:
- Poem by W.S Merwin titled “Season”
- Poem by Richard Wilbur titled “A Pasture Poem”
- Poem by N.T. Wright from Simply Christian
- From the Walt Whitman poem title “The Noiseless Patient Spider”
- Poem by Jobina titled “Meandering Home”
Hope:
- America’s Newest National Park is Twice the Size of Texas and Underwater
- First Public Test of a MagLev High Speed Rail (311 mph)
- Three Secrets to Radical Hospitality
- Peter Thiel: The Billionaire Tech Entrepreneur on a Mission to Cheat Death
- STEM to STEAM
- One and Only Way to Move Past Fear (Know it is the Most Boring Thing About You)
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