Know-Love-Obey God

The High Calling book club:
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die,
by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Laura Boggess leads our Oct. 25 discussion on the “Sticy Advice” section. (Since my copy of the book doesn’t have this section, I decided to post on Chapter 6.)
When circuit designers talk shop, they talk power [...]

High Calling Blogs book club:
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die,
by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Laura Boggess leads our Oct. 18 discussion on the Epilogue, “What Sticks.”.
In the Epilogue of Made to Stick, Heath & Heath list the five things a “sticky” idea needs to do for the audience.
For an idea to [...]

I am an astronaut on my way to the moon. For years I have trained and trained, stretched my brain to understand the rocket that is to take me there. I know how this spacecraft works, down to every knob and meter, every strap and latch. I ride in it every day, [...]

For the High Calling Blogs book club:
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die,
by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Laura Boggess leads our Sep. 27 discussion on chapter four, “Credible.”.
Which is more fun:
A GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT
A VISIT WITH A CANCER PATIENT DURING CHEMOTHERAPY
The women who sat with Sandi Kluth while toxic chemicals dripped through [...]

For the High Calling Blogs book club:
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die,
by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Laura Boggess leads our Sep. 20 discussion on chapter three, “Concrete.”.
We were backpacking in September, so I should have expected it. Everything was dead, or dying. Branches wilted and drooped. It was [...]

For the High Calling Blogs book club (2nd post):
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die,
by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Laura Boggess leads our discussion on chapter two.
I remember high school. Life was predictable: the first bell rang at 7:57; I knew to expect Physics for 2nd period, Accounting for 5th, and [...]

For the High Calling Blogs book club:
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die,
by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Laura Boggess leads our discussion on chapter two.
It is a custody battle of sorts. Two women are fighting over who should have the child, an infant boy.
Each woman is her own legal representative. [...]

For the High Calling Blogs book club:
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die,
by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Laura Boggess leads our discussion on chapter one.
I am thinking of four repulsive men. If I met them in person, I would find it hard not to cringe at them. I would have [...]

High Calling Blogs Book Club:
The Right to Write:
An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life,
by Julia Cameron
Laura Boggess leads our discussion (and links to other posts).
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What is it about holy ground that calls
for bare feet? Standing alone,
I untie resistant straps and take
away sandal-leather, false
protection for soles calloused
and inaccessible.
I slip bare feet from covered
isolation and [...]

High Calling Blogs Book Club:
The Right to Write:
An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life,
by Julia Cameron
Every Monday, Laura Boggess leads our discussion (and links to other posts).
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She and I first met at the National Gallery of Art. Immediately I knew we were friends; we had common heart-hues, likenesses in our life palettes. [...]