How to pray.
Morality can't be legislated.
How to spell Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Handel's Messiah should be loved all year--not just at Christmas.
How to expect more from myself than what I think I'm capable of.
Punishment that is effective is three things: swift, severe, and sure.
How to read hard things.
The book of Proverbs is perfect for months with 31 days in it.
Society is family in macrocosm.
How to be a teacher.
1 comment:
I would add to that:
- That C.S. Lewis wrote more than the Chronicles of Narnia
- You can take the man out of Boston, but you can't take the Boston pronunciation of words out of the man.
...And I also learned his wife baked their daily bread. This was a completely novel concept to me: baking your own supply of bread each day rather than buying it at the store.
The starter she gave me after I babysat for them was for the most amazing sour dough loaves I've ever tasted.
When I baked it, I only wanted to eat the bread and nothing else, three meals a day - it was that good.
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