We listen to American Public Radio’s Writers Almanac each morning as we start our day. (It is part of our ‘Dailies’.) Last year we listened rather passively. This year I am trying to integrate at least one item from the podcast into our day. Today I liked a quote from Goethe (included in honor of his birthday) “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.”
Today is the 45th Anniversary of the Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech. We watched the entire speech and used how it made us feel as an example of point of view and perspective. We recognized that someone that had experienced the racism of that time would hear the speech differently they we could – thought we both found it stirring.
A good day brought the first week of the 2008/09 school year at the School of Dad to a good close. We need to step it up next week, and the four day weekend will help me get prepared for that.
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