What a thrill to learn from Dr. Brené Brown’s blog last week about this marvelous video of the Cups song—sung in Gaelic—from the film “Pitch Perfect,” performed by the young people and staff of Irish college Coláiste Lurgan. It’s the perfect thing to feature as a “Connection Spotlight,” because the connections explode on so many levels: the haunting […]
Connection Spotlight
CONNECTION SPOTLIGHT: Little Free Libraries
Today’s Connection Spotlight shines on the Little Free Library movement that’s connecting readers with books all over the world. Now before you say, “But community libraries have been doing that for centuries!” let me say how big a supporter I am of community libraries. But the Little Free Library is a delightful variant of that, […]
CONNECTION SPOTLIGHT: Living History Links
I didn’t believe my eyes when I read the Richmond Times Dispatch headline: “Four children of Civil War Soldiers still live in Virginia” by Bill Lohmann According to heritage groups that track this kind of thing, there are at least 24 children of Confederate soldiers and 30 children of Union soldiers still living in the U.S., the […]