Brandon B

🚨#BREAKING: Six years ago today, COVID-19 was officially declared a global pandemic as countries around the world shut down in an effort to slow the spread of the virus.

The kid who asks 'why' too many times in class gets sent to the office. The kid who asks 'why' too many times at home starts a company.

My students spend thirty or more hours each week with the peer culture I've created at my school. The habits they develop, the attitudes they absorb, the ways of engaging with ideas and each other, all of that comes primarily from the culture they're immersed in rather than from me individually as a teacher. For parents who are busy and can't spend all day with their children, the most important question isn't what curriculum your kids are studying. It's who they're spending time with. What kind of people surround them hour after hour. That peer group shapes them more than any lesson plan.

18th green with dad. 🥹

COMEBACK COMPLETE 🏆 5,000+ DAYS SINCE HIS LAST PROFESSIONAL GOLF WIN. A 12-YEAR HIATUS FROM THE SPORT. CUT FROM LIV AFTER 2 SEASONS AND HAD TO EARN HIS SPOT BACK. ANTHONY KIM WITH ONE OF THE ALL-TIME HEATERS YOU WILL EVER SEE. SO BACK.

This isn’t a time to bicker over the Battle of the Tours. This is the time to appreciate a truly remarkable story of perseverance. Anthony Kim was one of my favorite players as a kid. Then he disappeared and re-emerged more than a decade later looking like a completely different person. Today he's showing us that DOG is still in there. Big time.

Anyone in the socal area: Hey friends — I wanted to share something we’ve started at Calico Fish House called Sharing the Table. Every Monday from 4–8 PM, we’re offering scratch-made family meals for FREE for anyone in the community who could use a financial hand with dinner - families, individuals, anyone struggling. The menu changes with the season, but currently, it features organic chicken or grilled shrimp, accompanied by baby Dutch potatoes or herbed rice, and roasted & braised vegetables — all served family-style to feed four. It’s simple: no questions, no stigma — just a way for families to enjoy a wholesome dinner together. If you know someone who could benefit, please pass this along.

Here in Orange County, the guys in the suits work for the guys in the flip flops

So the sitting Vice President and likely the next President of the United States should fly over to see you? 🤔 Respect for the office of VP as well as the fact that she has a competitive race to run, suggests you get your ass on a plane and talk to her wherever see is.

Some kids see straight through the things which others don’t. They see the power structures between adults and children, and ask why the adult gets to give out the stickers (and decide who gets them) whilst the children have to wait. They see how unfair it is that adults can say ‘that’s enough cake’ and expect to be obeyed but if a child says that to an adult, they’ll be laughed at. They see how adults say ‘we can’t afford a new toy’ but then spend money on the things they want. And they point it out. They are exceptionally clear sighted. This doesn’t make childhood easy. For childhood depends on a degree of accepting ‘this is just how things are’. It requires you to not ask questions and instead to follow the crowd. It requires you to keep listening even if you think it’s a waste of your time. To sit where everyone else is sitting, and to look in the same direction, and put your hand up and not to say ‘no thanks, I’d rather hang upside down over there’ Getting through childhood requires children to ignore what they see or pretend they didn’t notice. And some children just can’t do that. They see the world so clearly, and they can’t let things lie. They are the truth tellers and that isn’t easy to live with. They have a tough time at school because they always ask Why? But when we listen rather than telling them to be quiet, their perspective challenges us to think deeper. Not to do things ‘because that’s just how it is’. They open up a new way of seeing the world to those around them. They provoke change wherever they go. To have a clear-sighted child is a gift, even though it can take a while to appreciate your luck. The hardest job as their parents? To resist the voices telling us that we should make every effort to cloud their vision.

“Why” is the most powerful word for a child in the English language. It’s their secret code to unlock … everything. Encourage it, always. Even when it’s annoying.