The sourceless summer lightening marked out of the night dark mountain ranges at the rim of the world and the halfwild horses on the plain before them trotted in those bluish strobes like horses called forth quivering from the abyss.

What if we let kids’ curiosities dictate their education? What if, instead of some bureaucrat’s idea of what kids “should” learn, kids learned what they wanted to? Whatever they were curious about— movies, rocket building, art. Imagine how differently their lives would unfold.

Parents shouldn’t ever be able to make the life of a teacher a misery for doing their job, we need accountability for parents who crush the spirit of great teachers and school leaders.

Not too shabby for a 7 year old boy’s second buck…

Dad had to get in the pic too.

You always want to be someone’s exception to the rule. A person who can’t be put into a box. You don’t actively try to be different from those with similar backgrounds, careers, etc. You’re just so yourself that there’s no archetype that others can compare you to. One of a kind.

Signs of a below-average IQ: -Can't understand analogy -Thinks in absolutes -Thinks headlines are the story -Confuses opinion with fact -Can't understand nuance or context -No curiosity about anything -Takes EVERYTHING literally -Doesn't ask questions because they know it all

My best buddy

This boy’s a natural.

Song of the Day: My pick for today, Gillian Welch's live "Miss Ohio," joined by David Rawlings, Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires. youtu.be/4bXg_KAHZT0

If your back cinch hangs 4” below your horses belly, I don’t trust ya

"The true aim of literary studies is to lift the student out of his provincialism by making him a spectator, if not of all, yet of much, time and existence." Especially necessary when one lives in such deranged times as ours!

I am a teachers’ principal. People call me a unicorn. I’m not. I’m just a teacher who worked for the worst principal ever. And I learned who not to be. I became who I needed in spite of who I had.

Louis L’Amour did more to insure that young men who would eventually become mechanics and welders learned to read than the entire Department of Education has done since 1979.

My husband Pat has worked at Deere for 20+years. He’s 2nd generation Deere. Fiercely committed. Smart. But also close to burn out. Enter his new manager who encouraged a 4-day work week Y’all — it’s been LIFE CHANGING. For him. For me. For our family 4-day work weeks WORK

If we had the grit and determination our kids do, we could accomplish amazing feats.

The Queen of England died 5 months ago…. She ruled an entire nation and accumulated more wealth than 99.99% of humans… And…yet…you haven’t thought about her except for this tweet. You’re gonna die. Everyone will move on. Do what you want.

Gap-tooth guys always weirdly powerful…

Another one of my favorite Willie stories: One of the things that I like best about Willie is that he's always followed his own moral compass. That's why, in 1966, when his Willie Nelson Show package tour rolled across South Texas and Louisiana, he added African American

Most people are asleep. They never questioned what they were told, and what they are told shapes their psyche that interprets and acts on the billions of bits of information they process throughout their lives. They live, marry, work, and die in their sleep without waking up.