We all learned together...

On Monday I was invited to spend the morning at the St. James Day School in Raleigh.
I spent part of my morning teaching 48 young students about honey bee, the food cycle and caring for God's creation. By the feedback, we all learned together.

Do kids know computers better than cows?

A news paper in the UK had an interesting article last week. It seems that British children no longer can identify common plants, animals and trees. Sir David Attenborough is alarmed and feels a change needs to be made. His concern is that kids who cannot recognize things in nature may grow up to be adults who do not care about the natural world.

I agree with his assessment. Several years ago Shelley was having lunch with a cousin.
In the midst of catching up Shelley's cousin was sharing how her boy of 10 or so was growing up to be a city boy. The shocking piece of information Shelley came away with was the fact that this young man did not know where tomato's came from. He had never seen a tomato growing on a vine.

A well educated child not only will be able to identify many types of animals, but should be able to recognize the plants and trees around their world. Even better, they should get their hands dirty is the soil growing some thing beautiful and something good to eat.

Oh, and after reading the article...I do not know what a blue tit is either, I think it is a bird.

It has been a very busy week here. Work, family, honey bees and on top of it all, I am now taking a few classes at N.C State University. In the midst of all of that, I just did not have time to blog much this week, I have not even kept up with my normal bloglist daily read. All will return to normal one day, in the future, to what ever normal will be then.


My brother runs the Peachtree Road Race each July 4th. Here is a picture from his latest finish. A big thumbs up indeed!

Tall Skinny Kiwi

The TallSkinnyKiwi aka Andrew Jones had a great post on Sunday. If you have ever wondered if God can use your life without a piece of paper on the wall, read this.

Thanks to Jordan Cooper, I have viewed this video several times, I was impressed and excited by the words of Sir Ken Robinson, which means, another author and book to add to my list. Forgive the clunky link to the video, I still have not figured out how to do the cool-thing where only the video screen shows up on your blog page.