Free to embrace the Imperfect and call it an Art.

I know there are some of you reading this series of post about wonder and saying, “But you don’t know my life Mandy, my life has nothing wondrous about it:”
I work two jobs.
I don’t have a job.
I am a stay-at-home-mom.
I can’t have kids, and I want them desperately.
I hate my job.
My spouse is a kill-joy.
My [...]

Artists need mystery. And since I see all humanity as artists or creatives, I could rephrase that to say, humanity needs mystery. But we try to convince ourselves we don’t. We try to live like we can do without it. We try to pretend like nothing surprises us.
We think, especially as adults, that we should [...]

Preschool children, on average, ask their parents about 100 questions a day. Why, why, why—sometimes parents just wish it’d stop. Tragically, it does stop. By middle school they’ve pretty much stopped asking. It’s no coincidence that this same time is when student motivation and engagement plummet. They didn’t stop asking questions because they lost interest: [...]