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Jan
16

Zombie Apocalypse Housewives

Gotcha. We were watching the series of the zombie show, “Walking Dead” recently, and in one of the episodes the ideal woman character is having a confrontation with the feminist warrior woman about the importance of each other’s tasks. Our family watched the previous seasons on Netflix, and this scene occurs in season 2 Which matter most, the household tasks and the making of a home, or...
May
22

Your Beliefs Make and Break You

Your Beliefs Make and Break You It is surprising how certain core matters pop up in the most unexpected places. I was reading a marketing article, because I am sales challenged to a certain degree. Like what is probably true for the vast majority of people in my culture, I don’t like to sell. I feel forced to learn how, especially now that I am trying out different business avenues online (Zazzle, for instance). Plus I like...
Mar
19

Seven Mountains

Seven Mountains The church I attend has started interest groups that serve to connect people who are called to, or now involved within one of the “seven mountains of influence”. This idea is based from a teaching that seems to have originated in 1975, from Campus Crusade and Youth With A Mission leaders. I was not very informed about it until recently (and still not well versed), but it is an interesting way...
Apr
5

Watching Lately: The Beatles

I grew up with the Beatles, their music and their impact on the culture. In fact, I owned all their records at one time in my life. So, when my husband got “The Beatles Anthology” five discs worth of video out to watch… I didn’t think I would find much unfamiliar information. I was wrong. It is a set really worth watching and I am enjoying the many interviews that give an entirely...
Jan
12

Andrew Wyeth and Wintery Thoughts

Andrew Wyeth and Wintery Thoughts I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure in the landscape . . .Andrew Wyeth (1917- 2009) quoted by Richard Meryman in ‘The Art of Andrew Wyeth’, 1973 Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life Editing a winter navigation page in my garden website which contained that quotation, I looked up “Andrew Wyeth” to find his date of death. That search led to his obituary in the New York...
Oct
13

What Are Your Odds For Happiness?

What Are Your Odds For Happiness? ‘TED’ produces many talks that provide some productive thinking. In this video lecture about estimating value and how to do the right thing for the best outcome[it is approximately 34 minutes long]. Expecting value seems to be the odds of a gain by the value of that gain. For all its emphasis on using rational thought, it kept underscoring the human error factor and how powerful a force that...
Sep
3

Use Twitter Well

I’ve been using twitter for awhile (2060 tweets), and have found myself less enthralled with it, but still interested and hoping to craft my use of it. Maybe you are,too or maybe you are just looking into it. One of the blogs that have expertise is Twitip. Today there was a post on Follow Friday… that hashtag meme where you take time on Friday to recommend people to follow. In a post about the...
Aug
2

Sarah Palin Shows the Hiccups in Social Media

When blogging came into its own, I found it quite exciting to have a platform to share conversations on religion and politics with the world. In my real world life I found too few interested or comfortable with that sort of conversation, the topics being either too controversial or wrangling for most peoples taste. (At least among those here in a Midwestern, and certainly Church circles). Social media...
Jul
6

Does New Media Make Us As Powerful As We Think It Does?

I followed a twitter link to Unveiling the New Influencers from the PR2.0 blog. It was the usual (well, better than usual) ‘social media’ empowers us post. But the caveat offered in the comments highly interested me (quoted in entirety below). I think that new social media does empower many of us in ways that were not imagined previous to the explosion of blogs, and twitter, etc. Yet, I also...
Jun
20

The Milkmaid

The Milkmaid This is my favorite picture for many reasons. One is the stillness, another is the work ethic, the quiet content of daily mundane work. clipped from www.nytimes.com “The Milkmaid,” an oil by Vermeer from the 17th century, is headed for an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Organized to honor the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s historic voyage to New York from Amsterdam, the show, Sept. 10...
Jun
20

Gothic Meets Goth?

Gothic Meets Goth? Picture this: the classical romantic novel Pride and Prejudice crossed with B movie Zombie culture. This is “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” and it is selling like hotcakes… or cold beer on a summer afternoon. There is a commentary on our present state of mind somewhere within this plethora of horror movie morphing to gothic romance morphing to The Nightmare Before Christmas . A cartoon, really,...
Jun
4

The Executive Pastor’s Guide to Social Media

The Right People “anyone can be trained to use the tools, but the ones who have a deep rooted passion and interest in web technology are pretty safe bets. Why? Because people who are already engaged have a sustainable interest that will far exceed any tool, initiative, campaign, or...
Jan
30

All Is Not Lost

We’re big fans here… but it does help to “get perspective” via...
Jan
15

This Guy Talks About That Guy

Don’t you love this guy? Hey- I will get off my obsession with Chris Brogan once I move on from topics where he is the guy to go to. Anyway… Shannon Paul was the blog where I was reading about this. X-tra points for Christians when watching this video. We all know That Guy, all too well. We, some of us, have been That Guy… but really, friends, was Jesus ever That Guy? No, He...
Dec
12

The New Media Revisited

Hugh Hewitt created waves for many when he heralded the use of blogging for a whole different group of people: Christians who wanted to impact their world. But in a few short years “the new media” is taking on a newer aspect that that group is a little slow to utilize- social networking through Twitter and Facebook. (I know I was – I don’t know how long it was after Rodney Olsen...

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