August
Read! With Elizabeth Raum
Elizabeth’s Backyard Chickens
Besides writing, she loves collecting and washing her chickens’ eggs for her family, friends, and others. She’s lived in several states (I think nine), but now makes her home in Tennessee.
Join us for our fun interview. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did—and that you’ll look for her books at your library or bookstore.
Her reason for writing for children is simple: to write books children want to read—for multiple reasons. Watch now!
Unplug and Play Summit
Click HERE to learn about this community. If our children were still living at home, I would tune in. I still might. Looks like fun!
A Moment of Wonder
Not every lesson needs a classroom. Sometimes it begins with noticing.
The Work of the Wind
On hot August days, the air feels heavy.
Leaves hang still. Grass bends but does not sway. The land seems to wait for something—anything—to move.
And then it does.
A breeze slips through.
Wind is invisible, but its effects are everywhere.
It cools skin damp with sweat. It carries seeds from one place to another. It carries heat away from our skin and makes the heavy air feel lighter, easier to breathe. Storms form because air moves, rises, sinks, and shifts.
Even when we can’t see it, air is always working.
People learned long ago to watch for its signs.
Sailors read the wind to travel. Farmers planted windbreaks to protect crops. Children learned to run with it, not against it, letting it fill kites and spin pinwheels into motion.
The wind teaches cooperation with forces we cannot control.
August reminds us that not all power announces itself.
Some forces do their work quietly, shaping weather, land, and life itself—asking only that we pay attention.
A Moment to Reflect
The wind reminds us that unseen things matter. Just because something cannot be seen or held does not mean it lacks strength. When we learn to notice what we can’t see, we begin to understand how much of the world depends on trust, balance, and movement beyond our control.
