Hey everyone, David Kern here. Just wanted to let you know about our friends over at Belmont Abbey College who would like to invite all current high school students to attend its summer program, Scola.

Students will spend a week on their beautiful North Carolina campus just outside of Charlotte,

engaging in great book seminars with other young men and women from around the country.

He gets a chance to go whitewater rafting, hiking, and visit, of course, the city of Charlotte

in addition to all the academic things that are going on.

More importantly than all that stuff, though, students will have the opportunity to build

lasting friendships and have the time for reflection and prayer.

Experience leisure in the best sense this summer at Belmont Abbey College's Scola program.

For more, visit belmontabbycollege.edu

slash scola. That's Belmontabbycollege.edu slash s C-H-O-L-A. All right, and with that here is

today's episode. Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network.

I'm David Kern and I'm joined by my old friends, Heidi White and Tim McIntosh, two people

who are also probably secretly great whistlers.

Heidi, Tim, how's it going?

I'm the worst whistler in the history of whistling.

I can barely do it. Really? No, really. So I'm actually

just really bad at a lot of things, but I'm really good at talking about books. And so that's,

like people end up thinking I'm good at life because I'm good at doing the thing that they see.

But whistling is an example of something that you wouldn't

want my participation in like a contest about. Well, that's a shame because this podcast was going to

be switching gears here pretty soon to be a whistling, a whistling, um, whistling celebration.

Oh, well, I might have something to learn

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