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september 1, 2026

Black Belt Raggants

The following are my notes for the 2026-27 ECS Convocation address, given September 1.

june 17, 2026

Forging Raggants

It was early one June morning as seven potential apprentices stood in the sun waiting for the blacksmith…

june 6, 2026

Yielded Hustle

The following are my notes for the 2026 graduation at ECS.

earlier posts

2026

  1. No Better Time or Place

2025

  1. No Feather Lifting Classes
  2. Jealousable Blessings
  3. The ECS Enculturation Trifecta for Unfavorable Conditions
  4. What Do You Want?

2024

  1. Watershed Raggants
  2. The Seven Laws of Teaching
  3. The Summer of Raggants
  4. Tip More, Boldly
  5. Get Rich
  6. Plotting Imaginative Coordinates
  7. Disturbing the Lives of Others

2023

  1. The Year of the Raggant
  2. What the Music Says
  3. Too Loved to Be Bored
  4. Raggants Aren’t Normies
  5. Mission Critical

2022

  1. A Cultural Cathedral
  2. Stupidity Down
  3. Too Blessed to Be Stupid
  4. Keep Founding
  5. Baby Kittens Harnessed to a Bobsled
  6. The DRIP
  7. Chunks of Rancid Meat
  8. The Souls of the School

2021

  1. Laughing in Wartime
  2. Summer Break for Seeds
  3. Mellifluous Minutes
  4. A Place for Our Shelter
  5. Brave New Unhappiness

2020

  1. A Graduation Rumpus
  2. Good Fences Make Good Students

2019

  1. An Eye for Learning
  2. The Road Called Aestas
  3. All Are Yours
  4. The Grail
  5. The Future in a Snap
  6. The Adventure Aslan Sends
  7. "Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools?"

2018

  1. Me First: The Deaths We Should Die for Our Students
  2. Ante Lux, Tenebras
  3. New Adventures in Letters
  4. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  5. Unfinished Stories
  6. Quite Some Ride
  7. The Vanishing American Adult
  8. Blessed New World
  9. Board Lit
  10. Uncomfortable Blessings
  11. Better Than Unbreakable

2017

  1. Willing to Dig
  2. Boy, Was I Bored
  3. The Great Gravity of Glad Sacrifices
  4. The Nuts and Bolts of Education
  5. Flammable Under Certain Conditions

2016

  1. Combing Hair at Thermopylae
  2. The Red-Blooded Trivium
  3. The Forgotten Planet

2015

  1. Making a Contribution
  2. More Fruitful Than Treebeard
  3. Every Lesson Is a Gift

2014

  1. Lawless Laws
  2. The Door
  3. A Good Egg
  4. Defining Gifts

2013

  1. Go for It
  2. Big Minds Make Big Changes

2012

  1. Changing the World from a Basement
  2. Back to School
  3. Why Is This So Hard?
  4. A Glorious Day