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Website Updates, Music, and More
As you may have noticed the last couple weeks, I’ve been working on updating my website! I hope the changes make my website easier to use and any specific content you’re looking for easier to find. It’s always fun to have some new pictures, too. Here’s a quick look at what’s new here at Teacher by Nature. Tags & Categories. I once read that Categories on a website are like the Table of Contents of a book, while Tags are like the index. I try to adhere to this distinction as much as I can, although it can be challenging sometimes. They’re easy to get mixed-up, especially when so many…
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Magical Writers and Inner Creativity
I think writers of books are amazing human beings. This post contains a few of my thoughts about the creative process and some encouragement for my writer friends.
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Sometimes All We Need Is Time
We own an old book called Time for the White Egret by Natalie Savage Carlson. In the book the main character, a cattle egret, searches for a cow to call his very own, a cow that will use her hoofs to stir up insects for him to eat and spend time with him in the field, but no cows are currently available. A pregnant mama cow sees his plight and says, “I already have two egrets…and you have no cow. But time will take care of that.” The little egret does not want to wait, so goes on the hunt for time. He meets a truck and a dog and…
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Lessons from Killdeer About the Quiet Life
The Bible is filled with examples of nature instructing us how to live for God’s glory. Proverbs 6:6 says, “Consider the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.” Matthew 6:28-29 says, “And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” Job 38:31-33 says, “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loose the cords of Orion? Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children? Do you know the…
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Let Me Lead You Home {New Music Monday}
I’m excited to bring back New Music Mondays. I wrote the following song to submit for an exhibition at St. Andrew’s College in Scotland. (Here’s a link to the call they put out for artists.) They did not choose to use my song, but I am still looking forward to viewing the other artists’ work. The exhibition begins on Friday, March 19. It was both challenging and fun to prepare a song for submission–I’ve never done that before, and I would definitely do it again. The theme of the exhibition is “In/break,” and one idea listed is “an intrusion of hope.” I used this idea in my song, and also…