America is many things, many of them terrible, and we cannot and should not deny that. But this is also America: the America that loves kids and their neighbors, and who will show up on a dime for what they believe is right.

Truly.

She does! Though Honey has also embraced her inner curmudgeon in her senior years and finds it increasingly necessary to bark at the world. We all have our place in fighting the good fight. 😂

Tulip keeps our hearts soft and open when the world tries to harden us. 🌷💕

My NYC public high school kiddo and I both signed this, and we think you should, too. 👇🏻

I always love the way you lift up the humanity in these records. 🕯️

There is something really beautiful and moving about the way the act of your reading of these records lends a long overdue dignity and care to this man — like you're reaching back through time with the compassion that he didn't receive then. A late restoration of some grace in heartbreak.

And in an increasingly complex society in collapse, we are going to need more expertise, not less. There's no way that we as individuals can know all that we will need to know to survive the coming years.

Cheers!

In general, we live in a society that does a terrible job of understanding that people can be more than one thing but wow that really comes out when we talk about teens. Teens are BOTH children and adults. It's one of the things that makes parenting a teenager so infuriating and also so great.

Anyone who sells you a tool that promises to outsource the work of your relationships, or the loving tasks of connecting to our friends and family, is someone who is trying to rob you of your own humanity. For god's sake. Say no to this. Say no to all of it.

Human beings process information through narrative, through story. We think in stories, remember in stories, plan for the future in stories, worry in stories, dream in stories and connect with one another through stories. When we read to children we embody our deeply human birthright as storytellers

Another iteration of the tyranny of the quantifiable: you can figure out how to make convenience, efficiency, easiness profitable and quantifiable, but humanity is a more elusive phenomenon, one it takes humanity to recognize and value.

And here's another.

Oh, wow! There aren't many Reggio schools that extend beyond preschool. How wonderful! In case you're interested, I'll drop a couple of links here to two essays I've written previously that incorporate Reggio and Malaguzzi more directly. Here's one...

I love that you picked up on this! I was previously the director of a Reggio inspired preschool. The Reggio approach has a special place in my early childhood heart.