Inside the Minds of Valerie and Mike (and Anna)
16. When you are trying to get boys to come under good influence you are a fisherman wishful to catch fish. If you bait your hook with the kind of food that you like yourself it is probable that you will not catch many. You therefore use as bait the food that the fish likes. So... Continue Reading →
12. A Guide should train herself to look for what is beautiful everything so that she may become strong enough in her mind to avoid listening to, or taking part in, anything that is ugly or unclean. 13. Life without an appreciation of beauty is like a dull day without sunshine. Footsteps of the founder: the... Continue Reading →
4. Ambition to do the right is the only ambition that counts. Footsteps of the founder: the Baden-Powell quotations book Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell - Mario Sica - Nuova Fiordaliso - 2002
1. Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck-puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boy-man*, he can see it too. 2. Watch that lad going down the street, his eyes are looking far out. Is his vision across the prairie or over the gray-backed seas? At any rate, it isn't here. Don't I... Continue Reading →
What a great ending to my venture into the 2014 Lenten photo-a-day discipline. I wasn't sure where I was going to go with this today. I was ready to ruminate about our eagerness to move on from the self-reflection of Lent to the joy of Easter resurrection, but having to spend this day between the... Continue Reading →
When most Christians are asked what they feel is the holiest day in the church year, I suspect most will say Easter, with Christmas coming in a fairly close second. For me, the most holy day of the year is today. Good Friday, not Easter, is when Christ showed the world who he really... Continue Reading →
Another day where I woke up with a solid plan for my daily photo. This one was going to be so easy. I had already planned on making bread today to see if I couldn't fix my standard recipe to get it a little softer (hint I heard on NPR). But then, life... Continue Reading →
Here was another word that was hard to photograph. Solemnity is not a visual thing. It is a state of mind, a feeling of importance, an intentionality. We mark the important milestones in our lives with solemn ceremonies. We observe the cyclic markers in our seasons with solemn holidays and holy days. We approach... Continue Reading →
Today's word was really easy for me to "get." I am in the home stretch of this Lenten photo-a-day discipline (day 42 of the "40" days of Lent to be more precise). There have been days I just wasn't "into it." There were days I asked why I should keep doing this. And interestingly enough,... Continue Reading →
We live in a very loud world. And only a fraction of this noise is auditory. We are bombarded with sounds and images and tastes and all sorts of causes vying for or attention. Every once in a while, we need to find a quiet place in our lives to allow ourselves to clear the... Continue Reading →
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