My late father-in-law offers his own candidates for Coffee Mug of the Year, both thrown, glazed, and fired by his grandson.
We miss you, Ba.
My late father-in-law offers his own candidates for Coffee Mug of the Year, both thrown, glazed, and fired by his grandson.
We miss you, Ba.
“Inspiration is everywhere. Carry a notebook.”
– Victor Hugo
It is too easy to take for granted the forces that have created and continue to drive the existence of a scouting movement in the United States. A trip to the National Scouting Museum should eliminate any doubts about why this organization exists, and must continue to exist, as a critical part of our national youth development infrastructure.
We visited the museum in June 2017, just as it was preparing to close and relocate from a commercial park in a Dallas suburb alongside National HQ to a brand new home. The new National Scouting Museum would be at the Philmont Scout Ranch at Cimarron, New Mexico, a place where, the organization’s leadership believes, it will be seen by twice as many people.
We didn’t focus on this during our visit. Instead we had the run of the museum, which did a brilliant job explaining what scouting is, how it is conducted, why it is delivered the way it is, and, perhaps most important, why scouting plays an essential role – as essential as school and sports – in developing young people.
If scouting, broadly speaking, faces a problem in the US, it is that we are far better about delivering these messages to ourselves than we are to people who have know little, nothing, or aught more than disinformation about the organization.
Hopefully, the process of shifting the Museum will open more doors to better exposure. I hope so. The more people who know about the organization and what it REALLY does, the better.
J.J. Abrams once said that Macs almost challenge you to do something great.
I feel the same way about Moleskine notebooks.
Kosher dutch oven Shepherd’s Pie for Troop 234’sĀ adult leaders (basically, me and Dan E.)
Morro Bay State Park. Six years ago today.
Pre-COVID onboard Kosher meal, Passover:
Needless to say, the cake went undisturbed.
While I feel bad about wasting food, I’d feel worse about “waisting” it.
Henry Ford: “History is bunk.”
History: “Henry Ford was a brilliant industrialist but was also a heinous anti-Semite with a twisted social vision who vested in his namesake company his personal faults, to the point where it took three generations of managers to keep the company from self-immolating.”
History FTW.
I have no idea how Chad and Kristen at #scribedelivery managed to deliver a box every month through the Pandemic, but they did.
“When I write about the destructive effects of alcohol on Indians, I am not writing out of a literary stance or a colonized mind’s need to reinforce stereotypes. I am writing autobiography.”
Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, from the Introduction.