I mentioned in a previous post that we had a chance to go skiing as a family this weekend, and it was pretty awesome. I had not been skiing in over 25 years, so there was some rust that needed to be knocked off for sure. If I am being honest, I was never really that good at skiing. Making it down the hill with all of my equipment was a victory. But if there was one thing I had, it was a reckless disregard for my own (or others’) safety on the slopes. Unfortunately, I have no video or even photographic evidence of our shenanigans. Last night, Number 1 sent a video of his own adventures, and I think this is very close to what I would have looked like on the hill back in the day. I think he was only mildly concussed.
As a reminder, Lunch Box Quotes are notes I include in the kids’ lunches every day. Number 1 gets a text, but 2-4 get handwritten napkins.
Visual credits to: Featured image – The Sister-in-Law Quotes: @TheMonologist @CowboyGospeler @gibransghost @arealmofwonder @realAtlasPress
Quotes:
1. “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences, with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.” – Kurt Vonnegut
2. “Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword.” – Matthew 10:34
3. “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” – Plato
4. “Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.” – C.S. Lewis
Bonus Quote: “When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them with an estate of incalculable value.” – Thomas Edison
Sources:
“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.”
KURT VONNEGUT – one of my favourite humans. pic.twitter.com/2RWz4VnqKY
— Michael Warburton (@TheMonologist) February 9, 2026
Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword.
⏤ Matthew 10:34 https://t.co/zXOgOspGot pic.twitter.com/AUi1cDH7CP— Cowboy Gospeler (@CowboyGospeler) February 10, 2026
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato pic.twitter.com/dRHIf38765
— Gibran’s Ghost (@gibransghost) February 9, 2026
“Free will, though it makes evil
possible, is also the only thing
that makes possible any love or
goodness or joy worth having.”
~ C.S. Lewis pic.twitter.com/hY4pbFemyo— Cian McCarthy (@arealmofwonder) February 9, 2026
A father’s greatest gift pic.twitter.com/B9bZmxRY71
— Atlas Press (@realAtlasPress) February 10, 2026