Today is Hobbit Day, part of Tolkien Week. Tolkien Week, named after J.R.R. Tolkien, is a celebration of Tolkien’s Middle Earth cycle, which includes the popular and influential fantasy work The Lord of the Rings. It always falls on the week containing September 22nd, also known as “Hobbit Day,” Bilbo and Frodo Baggins’ mutual birthday.… Continue reading Who Knew?
Tag: thinking through
Motivational mumbu jumbo
Actually this is really good… at about 8:56 There is mention of the need for a “Transcendent Cause”. This is getting to be a recurring thought and idea on my radar the last 12 months. I’ve been talking with the two guys in my Pre-Calc class this past year about why we do and why,… Continue reading Motivational mumbu jumbo
Transcendent Causes
Last evening my wife and I started reading a new book; Instructing a Child’s Heart by Tedd and Margy Tripp. One of the first paragraphs stood out to me, it included the word transcendent, one that I’ve been thinking about the past months in connection to what drives and motivates us. Where do you take… Continue reading Transcendent Causes
Year 2010
Here we are at the brink of a new year. I was only 10 years ago that we were all wound up about Y2K and whether or not airplanes would fall out of the sky, buying generators and stocking up on sugar, eggs, and bread in case the banks and stores shut down at the… Continue reading Year 2010