This “Word from the Headmaster” marks a time of real change at Veritas Academy. Much of our Parental Memo will be migrating to our new ParentsWeb website. You are really going to enjoy it. There will still be words from the Headmaster (many will say that I can hardly avoid this). Also, I will posting more regularly to my blog, The Leaky Bucket. You can read these posts by clicking on the bucket icon on the homepage of the school website (www.VeritasAcademy.com).

Some have asked, sometimes with puzzled looks, why my blog should be called “The Leaky Bucket.” It is a tribute to two of my favorite authors through a metaphorical connection that I pieced together. The authors are Wendell Berry and J.R.R. Tolkien. You should read these guys—all that they have written. Berry’s essay called “The Work of Local Culture.” Outside of Scripture and The Divine Comedy this essay has affected me more than any other piece of writing that I have encountered. I am not alone. Recently, I was discussing this essay with Ken Myers from Mars Hill Audio. He told me that this essay has also greatly affected him as well. I felt smart just having a commonality with Ken. The essay can be found on Mars Hill Audio (https://www.marshillaudio.org/catalog/antholog.asp). It is called Anthology 3—Place, Community and Memory. You can buy it on cassette or MP3. Buy the MP3. I burned through three tapes listening to them over and over again. Berry talks about a bucket that hung on the fence on an old fence post and the miracle happening within it—in it earth was being created. Tolkien, earlier, said that good ideas came out of the leaf mold of his mind. Therefore, I have a bucket—but mine is leaky. I hope you enjoy it—and ParentsWeb.