Candlelight
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Candles are magical. The Lovely K. and I light candles at dinner most nights, and try to bring someone into our circle of flickering light…
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A few quotations on the power of stories
Whether you tell traditional stories, share your childhood escapades with your kids, narrate the day’s events or make up stories on the spot – grab…
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About Stories
“The protagonist of folk tale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. When adult state and a suitable partner…
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The Black Belt Wall
Lisa’s son competing in board breaking in November, 2011 as a “Recommended Black Belt” Jennifer and my children are testing for their Black Belts in…
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Courage Question of the Day
Here at Lion’s Whiskers we are hoping to collect kids’ definitions for some of the values most commonly associated with moral courage. We would appreciate your help! Could…
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Surviving the Lion AND the Fox!
I found a very interesting story the other day that highlights moral courage in an unusual way. Animal fables typically offer the lion and the…
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Courage Question of the Day
“Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historical, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former—the youngest…
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Jean Labadie’s Big Black Dog and Shivering in the Bath
Here is an old Quebecois story I ran across recently in Kevin Crossley Holland’s The Young Oxford Book of Folk Tales. It’s an easy story…
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Courage Quote of the Day
“To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. ” ~Confucius To learn more about what we mean by “Moral Courage”, click here!
Quitters, Campers, and Climbers—Which One Are You?
I would have thought that one of the side effects of writing a blog about courage would be an increase in my own courage quotient. In fact,…
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