catapult magazine

Items tagged lesson

• Learning to breathe

  Simple lessons yield revelations about God and relationship.

• Mouthwash, midnight and a monologue

  Looking back at a mile marker on a journey toward greater freedom.

• 80-degree community

  Nature offers a lesson in working together to change the world.

• The tide of trash

  On what happens when conflicting ideas take walks around the same neighborhood.

• BE HERE NOW (and later, too)

  Reflecting on a year-long experiment in time off.

• The Halloween Bunny

  A tale of disillusionment, for better or worse.

• The freedom, the pain and the just desserts of nerdiness

  Middle school lessons, for better or worse, become life lessons.

• Ten things for teaching

  A moment of reflection before heading into a whirlwind of a term.

• Ten things I learned in a difficult year

  Lessons from tough times, in no particular order of importance.

• Community doesn’t just happen

  A group interview exploring the thoughts and ideas that fill the rooms of a big old house in Grand Rapids along with five adults and an infant.

• Moving in grace

  A time of transition yields lessons about identity and forgiveness.

• Open hands

  A tale of two situations, or how I learned to let go.

• Souvenirs

  Ten lessons to treasure heading into life after fifty.

• I promise

  How mundane details met audacious hope, in the round, on December 31, 2000.

• In the moment

  Learning through all five senses at a home away from home.

• Ten lessons you didn’t know you learned from Barbie

  What the iconic doll taught us beyond -- and sometimes instead of -- playing nice.

• Tesser well

  Lessons from a writer, to a writer, transcend the boundaries of time and space.

• If you want to teach well

  A short lesson on listening to and appreciating children for who they are.

• We all like sheep

  How our kids pick up on the differences between hired hands and good shepherds.

• Ten things I’ve learned from playing board games

  Life lessons, including a top ten list of family board games.

• Just another year

  Marking the passing of 2013 by remembering the importance of the ordinary.

• Life sentence

  Ten grammar lessons for life from a middle school grammar teacher.

• The world is always growing old and growing up

  On a store closing and a first driving lesson.

• Everyone needs a to-don’t list

  An important lesson for moving yourself and your organization forward.