Not that I'm over eager for it, or even really looking for it yet, but Spring seems to be popping up all over town. I managed to talk myself into going for a small run today and was surprised by both crocuses and snowdrops, a man mowing his lawn, and sun on my back. Also, I've been eager to keep the windows open (could possibly a residual desire hanging over from last weeks kitchen re-do that involved too many paint fumes).
Thankfully Spring has not weasled its way onto the mountain: the clouds seem to have been dumping for the last couple of days.
25.2.09
23.2.09
We Are Getting Old
Reason number 1: we are both graduated from college.
[Graduation Celebration - the people I know are definitely young at heart]
Reason number 2: I am SO SORE from snowboarding. Back when I first started I would get terribly sore, but that was because I was not athletic and fell alot. Right now, it just comes down to the fact that I have not snowboarded much in two years and just feel the burn that much faster. Old or not, Bachelor was Awesome; the snow was nice, the view was spectacular, I got a sweet bruise (rare for me after snowboarding), the company was fun, we were exhausted.
[Our cameras are too big and important to our livelihood to take on the mt, so these are from our friend's cameras]
[Graduation Celebration - the people I know are definitely young at heart]
Reason number 2: I am SO SORE from snowboarding. Back when I first started I would get terribly sore, but that was because I was not athletic and fell alot. Right now, it just comes down to the fact that I have not snowboarded much in two years and just feel the burn that much faster. Old or not, Bachelor was Awesome; the snow was nice, the view was spectacular, I got a sweet bruise (rare for me after snowboarding), the company was fun, we were exhausted.
[Our cameras are too big and important to our livelihood to take on the mt, so these are from our friend's cameras]
12.2.09
More!
I bought some more plants today to take the place of the two that sort of got overgrown and ate themselves, and the fern that died within 2 weeks of our purchasing it.
However, the Spider plant and the Wandering Jew my grandma gave us are doing well, I'm pleased to say.
I bought an Aloe hybrid and little packs of Basil and Cilantro seeds. We'll see how they do. I sort of dumped a lot of Basil seeds into the pot. I also found a bigger pot for the Spider plant (it was outgrowing its old one! Amazing!) that I'm quite happy with. It has a lovely urn sort of shape to it, and its a nice textured bronze color.
Please don't die!
[PS if you noticed the brown bookshelf in the picture below has not been organized by color, fear not - as soon as we're not tired of scanning books and moving them around, they will be included in the colorful funness.]
However, the Spider plant and the Wandering Jew my grandma gave us are doing well, I'm pleased to say.
I bought an Aloe hybrid and little packs of Basil and Cilantro seeds. We'll see how they do. I sort of dumped a lot of Basil seeds into the pot. I also found a bigger pot for the Spider plant (it was outgrowing its old one! Amazing!) that I'm quite happy with. It has a lovely urn sort of shape to it, and its a nice textured bronze color.
Please don't die!
[PS if you noticed the brown bookshelf in the picture below has not been organized by color, fear not - as soon as we're not tired of scanning books and moving them around, they will be included in the colorful funness.]
On Imagination and Responding to the Bible
[More from Read the Bible for a Change]
As we imagine the world really being as the Bible describes it we artistically "render" the world around us, thinking, imagining, feeling, and acting in ways that cooperate, that fit with, the values of this invisible but very real kingdom of God. Francis Schaeffer fully understood this perspective:
No work of art is more important that the Christian's own life, and every Christian is called upon to be an artist in this sense. He may have no gift of writing, no gift of composing or singing, but each man has the gift of creativity in terms of the way he lives his life. In this sense, the Christian life is to be an art work. The Christian life is to be a thing of truth and also a thing of beauty in the midst of a lost and despairing world.
Responding to the Bible is a matter, then, of awakening our imaginations to living as if we are natives of a different world of thinking.
-Lubeck, p.84
As we imagine the world really being as the Bible describes it we artistically "render" the world around us, thinking, imagining, feeling, and acting in ways that cooperate, that fit with, the values of this invisible but very real kingdom of God. Francis Schaeffer fully understood this perspective:
No work of art is more important that the Christian's own life, and every Christian is called upon to be an artist in this sense. He may have no gift of writing, no gift of composing or singing, but each man has the gift of creativity in terms of the way he lives his life. In this sense, the Christian life is to be an art work. The Christian life is to be a thing of truth and also a thing of beauty in the midst of a lost and despairing world.
Responding to the Bible is a matter, then, of awakening our imaginations to living as if we are natives of a different world of thinking.
-Lubeck, p.84
11.2.09
Details
I like change. At least I like to think I do.
However, a month or so ago Josh suggested we organize our library by color. Yeah right. (I said no way crazy boy.) They've been alphabetized for ever! How would we ever find what we were looking for? Sigh.
But... then Kristin introduced me to www.gurulib.com and I realized - hey, if we can have our books all organized online, why not have them organized by color on the shelves! It looks less chaotic and yet is somehow more crazy. I like it.
[Also, here is our "smoking chair" we so love, our new (free!) blue desk, and my painting I am thinking about re-doing.]
However, a month or so ago Josh suggested we organize our library by color. Yeah right. (I said no way crazy boy.) They've been alphabetized for ever! How would we ever find what we were looking for? Sigh.
But... then Kristin introduced me to www.gurulib.com and I realized - hey, if we can have our books all organized online, why not have them organized by color on the shelves! It looks less chaotic and yet is somehow more crazy. I like it.
[Also, here is our "smoking chair" we so love, our new (free!) blue desk, and my painting I am thinking about re-doing.]
10.2.09
We Do a Fair Bit of Reading
The story of my reading of this book is rather painful. 
I got it at the library last summer, but someone had a hold on it (how dare they!) so halfway through it I had to choose between a fine, and leaving off halfway through. We were quite broke over the summer. Then, I got it for Christmas - yay! But then we went out of town and things like that. I was starting to think I would never finish it. Then, over the last week or week and a half, I started it up again, only to discover that hgtv is just like all the other channels and puts its shows on the internet. No reading. But there is a happy ending - Sunday night I closed the computer, sat down on the couch, and finished the book. It was lovely.
Here are two of my favorite quotes from the begining of the second time I came back to the book.
"...for he considered books as rather like birds and it saddened him to see them caged or still" -p102
"In fact, his love for this arboreal element made him, as all real loves do, become merciless even to the point of hurting, wounding and amputating so as to help growth and give shape" -p103
I got it at the library last summer, but someone had a hold on it (how dare they!) so halfway through it I had to choose between a fine, and leaving off halfway through. We were quite broke over the summer. Then, I got it for Christmas - yay! But then we went out of town and things like that. I was starting to think I would never finish it. Then, over the last week or week and a half, I started it up again, only to discover that hgtv is just like all the other channels and puts its shows on the internet. No reading. But there is a happy ending - Sunday night I closed the computer, sat down on the couch, and finished the book. It was lovely.
Here are two of my favorite quotes from the begining of the second time I came back to the book.
"...for he considered books as rather like birds and it saddened him to see them caged or still" -p102
"In fact, his love for this arboreal element made him, as all real loves do, become merciless even to the point of hurting, wounding and amputating so as to help growth and give shape" -p103
6.2.09
Read the Bible for a Change
Following the Bible is not about reforming our behaviors by strict rule keeping. Rather, it is an invitation to our imagination, offering to us whole new ways of seeing and being in the world in the ways that God describes it. God does not liberate us in Christ by giving us more and different laws, but by enabling us to look at literally everything form a different perspective, with a new reference point for reality.
Instead of depending upon our eyesight to provide us with reliable information on the way things really are, we are offered hope by depending on faith-empowered imagination to conceive of things from a God's-eye view.
The world itself can be re-created in our minds, not as the frivolous fictions of wishful thinking, but by my fully embracing the fact that God's own version of reality, seen with eyes of faith while I read the Scriptures, is more accurate, more truthful, and more soul satisfying than any rival version, including (especially) those in which I am at the center of my universe of reality.
-p 83, Lubeck
Instead of depending upon our eyesight to provide us with reliable information on the way things really are, we are offered hope by depending on faith-empowered imagination to conceive of things from a God's-eye view.
The world itself can be re-created in our minds, not as the frivolous fictions of wishful thinking, but by my fully embracing the fact that God's own version of reality, seen with eyes of faith while I read the Scriptures, is more accurate, more truthful, and more soul satisfying than any rival version, including (especially) those in which I am at the center of my universe of reality.
-p 83, Lubeck
4.2.09
Notes from a Call Center
Some old ladies sound like old men - it's confusing.
I think one of my co-callers got a marriage proposal. He does have a captivating voice.
My pencil was made in TAWIAN.
Some people are very honest.
Some people are shamelessly cheesy with their voice mail messages.
Some people are funny. (Fave: "please leave your humorous anecdote or tale of woe")
Why answer your phone if you
a)have company
b)are leaving on vacation That moment.
c)are on your way to a funeral/sports pictures/the hospital
or d) are holding a screaming baby
A lot of people are unemployed.
I think one of my co-callers got a marriage proposal. He does have a captivating voice.
My pencil was made in TAWIAN.
Some people are very honest.
Some people are shamelessly cheesy with their voice mail messages.
Some people are funny. (Fave: "please leave your humorous anecdote or tale of woe")
Why answer your phone if you
a)have company
b)are leaving on vacation That moment.
c)are on your way to a funeral/sports pictures/the hospital
or d) are holding a screaming baby
A lot of people are unemployed.
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