January 2010
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Well...Hello Thirty
Dear Thirty,
I wrote you a much longer note earlier this week. I mentioned things like how I thought you seemed ever so slightly more settled than 29 and how I thought that was a good look on you. I mentioned how excited I was at the potential of making less mistakes now - or at least at the possibility of not repeating ones I’ve already made. I also pointed out how grateful I am for the...
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A Laboratory For Transformation
Lately I have been repeating the following phrase: “Somewhere during the last 16 months I’ve lost my ability to contemplate.” Melodramatic as it may seem, I’ve believed it to be true until a friend pointed out that I haven’t really lost anything at all. Instead, he suggested that I had purposefully dismissed my discipline of contemplation and merely replaced it with...
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Lost
(Image by Joshua Longbrake)
A mentor mentioned the following poem to me today and I can’t stop thinking about it.
What does it really mean to stand still? To be here? I think I’m slowly learning this. But only very slowly.
Lost
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask...
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Catalyst One Day
I don’t usually promote events on here, but I simply had to for this since it is literally taking place down the hall from me here at Willow.
March 26th, 2010 - Catalyst One Day features Andy Stanley and Craig Groeschel in 4 sessions on the topic of momentum, and includes Q and A with leaders in attendance, as well as interaction between Andy and Craig around current leadership issues in...
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An Act Of Confession
A few months ago I led our community (and Story 2009) through a time of confession. I’ve been messing around with plexiglass since seeing this Bright Eyes video a number of years ago, although I had never tried it live until recently. While the medium has adapted over the years, I find that there is something interesting and sacred about not using your voice. Especially when speaking your...
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100 Words - Mike Foster on Grace
Mike is the head of Ethur, a non-profit organization developing initiatives that promote social and cultural change. His projects include Deadly Viper, the Junky Car Club, People of the Second Chance . He also acts as the Sr. Creative Principal at PlainJoe Studios, a design firm specializing in strategic branding, interactive media, and environmental design.
GRACE
Grace brings out the best...
“The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary...”
– G.K. Chesterton
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The Opiate Mass
My friend Zadok, creator of the newly named Seattle band/experience The Opiate Mass (formerly Urban Hymnal), commissioned me to create a print to represent their new identity - something that could work just as a print or on a t-shirt. Inspired by Kevin Cooley’s photo, I hand-drew the image and added some color. It’s still a work in progress, but I’d love your thoughts on the...
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Office Pranks
Have you ever returned to your computer only to find “well-titled” folders on your desktop that weren’t there when you left? Me either.
*Desktop wallpaper courtesy of Mr. Longbrake. Get it here for free.
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My 3 Words For 2010
I’ve been away for awhile. Holiday as it were.
My time away from this space has been good and refreshing and needed. As I jump back into the swing of things and into 2010 - a year filled with much anticipation (I turn 30 at the end of the month, for example), I’m finding that I need some direction.
Inspired by Clay Herbert, who was originally inspired by Chris Brogan, I’ve...
On Holiday
If you’re familiar with the Ennegram, I’m a 7. I love experiences. Lots of them. I constantly want to be somewhere I’m not and I’m terrible at resting in one place for too long. This constant drive for new experiences has me plum tuckered out and in desperate need of focusing on where I am, not where I want to be.
Today’s EnneaThought confirmed this:
On New...