Participation & Practice
Community in action: volunteering, service, travel, single parenting, and fatherhood—making values concrete in daily life.
- Dressing Well Is Learned, Not Inherited A seven-hour class took the "dressing is a talent" category apart: colour is optics, and optics has formulas. I picked up plenty of small craft too, and still didn't dare buy anything — the four hours in fitting rooms fixed that.
- Dad, I've arranged it — we're at Sophie's at 3 From too shy to ask, to running her own playdate scheduling with backup plans — one full practice in being there without deciding for her.
- Caring Is a Skill Good intentions wreck people. Notes from a caring ministry workshop on why listening has an SOP, when the Bible says to stop helping, and where altruism actually starts.
- Dad, I want to try again My daughter froze during a school assessment and we left. Two minutes later, she decided to go back. She was four and a half.