Bereiter House Museum

04/20/2026

A peaceful life is a powerful life. 🌎💖

04/20/2026

04/20/2026

Stories like this don’t usually make the national news.

But maybe they should.

At a high school auto shop in Virginia, students are doing something quietly powerful. They take old, worn-out cars. The kind most people would write off. The kind that sit in driveways because the repair bill costs more than the vehicle itself.

Then they bring them back to life.

Engines rebuilt. Brakes replaced. Electrical problems solved. Hours of real work, real skill, real learning.

And when the car is finally running again?

They don’t sell it.

They give it away.

Each vehicle goes to a single mother who needs reliable transportation. Someone who might be trying to hold down a job, get kids to school, make doctor appointments, and keep life moving forward, all without the basic freedom that comes from having a dependable car.

If you’ve ever tried to work, raise kids, and run a household without transportation, you know how hard that road is.

This program turns a classroom into something bigger than a classroom.

Students learn how to diagnose an engine problem.

But they also learn what it feels like to hand someone the keys to a second chance.

They learn that skill can serve people.

That work can change lives.

And that sometimes the most meaningful education doesn’t just happen under fluorescent lights and textbooks.

Sometimes it happens in a garage, with grease on your hands, fixing something broken so someone else can keep moving forward.

Pretty good lesson for a group of high school students.

Honestly, a pretty good reminder for the rest of us too.

04/20/2026

Remember Dan Price...that CEO who took a pay cut so he could pay all his employees a minimum annual wage of $70,000? Here’s what happened next:
“Six years later after the decision that others said would destroy his business, Dan reports that revenue has tripled, the customer base has doubled, 70% of his employees have paid down debt, many bought homes for the first time, 401(k) contributions grew by 155% and turnover dropped in half. His business is now a Harvard Business School case study.”
In his own words:
“6 years ago today I raised my company's min annual salary to $70k. Fox News called me a socialist whose employees would be on bread lines.
Since then our revenue tripled, we're a Harvard Business School case study & our employees had a 10x boom in homes bought.
Always invest in people.”
Courtesy of Craig Henley

04/20/2026

35 heirloom varieties — 100% non-GMO and open-pollinated 16,000+ seeds in one vault — enough to plant a full garden Save and replant forever — never buy seeds again Airtight, moisture-resistant packaging with 10-year freshness guarantee

01/03/2026

07/23/2023

Regular face book

11/28/2022

For anybody needing to know this…
All animals have feelings.
This lil guys name is JINX
Little Jinx is progressing well in the Tolga Bat Hospital, in Australia. He is a baby Tube Nosed bat, a fruit eater, whose mother had died. In this photo you can see why bats are called "chiroptera" which literally translates to "hand-wing"

11/11/2022

Located in Air Massif, Niger are two of the biggest animal rock petroglyphs in the world, called the Dabous Giraffes, dated 8000 BC.

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10/19/2021

10/17/2021

Beautiful.

Mount Hood - photo by .brackenbury