Prologue

Over the years, I’ve worked harder and harder to find meaning in life. But the more I've looked, the more I’ve wondered if I was going about my search the wrong way.

I've been looking for meaning through experience, but I think now that I've always had it backwards. Life will never be defined by extravagant experience, but about finding extravagance in common experience. So for 2009, I'm going to focus less on living large, and focus more on living well. Each month I'll start a new month-long project (like trying to run 3 miles faster than George Bush), to find uncommon results from common experience. Each project will involve daily activity, so every day of 2009 you can check my progress on the monthly projects and see what I discover.

None of these projects will cost much—in fact, I think most will be free. So if you're looking for a year uncommonly rich, you can join me. There's no membership required, just participate and comment if you want. Either way, get ready for a year I hope is unlike any other.

Epilogue

I stumbled across the finish line, but I manage to complete 8 of the month-long projects successfully. Blogging is now over at Wonderfam!

It's February, and February was a …

A Month of Accomplishment (about)

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Forcing myself to finish something (about)

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What’s a father’s wisdom look like?

Written by Nathan on March 4, 2009 at 11:41 pm from A Month of Wisdom.

While there are numerous reasons for me to spend a month wising up, among the stated reasons is the recent birth of my third child. A lifetime of pop culture exposure has left me thinking that very soon I should start bestowing some sage advice upon my children and preparing them for the ways of the world. Only thing, is that I don’t really know precisely how to do that, never having been a father prior to my eldest’s birth.

So you can imagine my ears perk up when Proverbs starts talking about wisdom imparted from a father. Of course, in this verse the advice is chiefly about the need to prize wisdom, so it doesn’t quite satisfy my specific need. Or maybe it does. Because I’m without either the knowledge of the specifics of what to say, or even generally way the topics I should be saying things about.

Now I’m wondering if I need to look back at the sorts of advice my own dad gave me, and take some cues there. It’s late, my brain’s been exhausted by the day’s demands and so nothing’s leaping to mind. But it’ll come. In the meantime, I’ll just keep wondering what fatherly wisdom looks like. Tips are, of course, welcome.

(1) Comment

One Response to “What’s a father’s wisdom look like?”

Dede says:

March 12, 2009 at 11:44 am

Here is the wisest thing one of my big brothers taught me:
“You can never have enough ice.”

Spread the word.