Friday, October 31, 2008
Animal House Party 2
Last night, the Mississippi Museum of Art hosted an annual gala for CARA, a no-kill animal shelter. Architecture firms and contractors teamed together to design and build 9 dog homes which were auctioned off at the live auction the night of the event. Hot dogs were served and the Fabulous Earth Angels were rockin'. It was a fun night and all of the money raised from the live and silent auction, and ticket sales will help CARA renovate their existing facility.
7 Randoms
I've been tagged by my sister, Coco.
Seven weird/random things about myself...
I hiccup one loud obnoxious time after a meal or if I'm hungry...as does my dad and my sister,
was a strict vegetarian from 6th grade until age 20,
was lost in a creek in 7th grade...the church and two officers were looking for me, but my sweet dad found me,
successfully removed the braces from my teeth in first grade with mom's mirror and dad's pliers...and begrudgingly had them put back on the next night by a woman named Fonda, in a trans am at a gas station parking lot at 930pm,
cousins with two notables: Carl Perkins and Wild Bill Sullivan,
did the layout for George Bush's 80th birthday invitation,
have had an unbelievable survival rate with major car accidents (been through 8 different cars to date...) and a rip tide.
Now I need to tag seven people.
Nathan
David & Guitta
Caroline
Andrea
Chris
Seven weird/random things about myself...
I hiccup one loud obnoxious time after a meal or if I'm hungry...as does my dad and my sister,
was a strict vegetarian from 6th grade until age 20,
was lost in a creek in 7th grade...the church and two officers were looking for me, but my sweet dad found me,
successfully removed the braces from my teeth in first grade with mom's mirror and dad's pliers...and begrudgingly had them put back on the next night by a woman named Fonda, in a trans am at a gas station parking lot at 930pm,
cousins with two notables: Carl Perkins and Wild Bill Sullivan,
did the layout for George Bush's 80th birthday invitation,
have had an unbelievable survival rate with major car accidents (been through 8 different cars to date...) and a rip tide.
Now I need to tag seven people.
Nathan
David & Guitta
Caroline
Andrea
Chris
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Rest for the Weary
"At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure. All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Matthew 11:25-12:21
Good from Oswald Chambers:
All God's revelations are sealed
until they are opened to us by obedience.
You will never get them open
by philosophy or thinking.
Immediately you obey, a flash of light comes.
Let God's truth work in you
by soaking in it not by worrying into it.
The only way you can get to know
is to sop trying to find out
and by being born again.
Obey God in the thing He shows you,
and instantly the next thing is opened up.
One reads tomes on the work of the Holy Spirit,
when five minutes of drastic obedience
would make things as clear as a sunbeam.
It is not study that does it, but obedience.
The tiniest fragment of obedience,
and heaven opens and the profoundest
truths of God are yours straight away.
God will never reveal what you know already.
Beware of becoming "wise and learned".
Good from Oswald Chambers:
All God's revelations are sealed
until they are opened to us by obedience.
You will never get them open
by philosophy or thinking.
Immediately you obey, a flash of light comes.
Let God's truth work in you
by soaking in it not by worrying into it.
The only way you can get to know
is to sop trying to find out
and by being born again.
Obey God in the thing He shows you,
and instantly the next thing is opened up.
One reads tomes on the work of the Holy Spirit,
when five minutes of drastic obedience
would make things as clear as a sunbeam.
It is not study that does it, but obedience.
The tiniest fragment of obedience,
and heaven opens and the profoundest
truths of God are yours straight away.
God will never reveal what you know already.
Beware of becoming "wise and learned".
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Fall Books!!!
It's time for a new book list for fall:
1) MERE CHRISTIANITY It's time to re-read it. One of the most influential books I've read. I read it my senior year of high-school and bought seven copies to give to my friends. so so good. I'm looking forward to re-reading it.
2) CHRONICLES OF NARNIA This is something I should have read already, but couldn't get in to before. I'm getting so lost in reading them now. They are great!
3) THE SHACK I grabbed this sort of as an impulse buy. It came recommended. I may read this now, or save it until I'm "more mature".
4) BEACH MUSIC It was from the summer reading list, and I didn't get to it...got distracted by Narnia.
5) A PASSION FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE The Life of Lilias Trotter. I can't wait to get started on this one.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
"But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn’t know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to look at Aslan’s face they just caught a glimpse of the golden mane and the great, royal, solemn, overwhelming eyes; and then they found they couldn’t look at him and went all trembly." -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Monday, October 13, 2008
Hangin with the "sis"
E got to meet up with one of her "sisters" from the orphanage for some hang time. How exciting! I'm so proud for them!!
Sunday, October 12, 2008
A new coffee shop has arrived in the hood, and with it, another place for my favorite Saturday ritual: read and sip, look up occasionally to contemplate, and say hello to a familiar passers by.
Sometimes, I get the uncanny, paranoid sensation like Will Ferrell in Stranger than Fiction, that I'm in a movie that's sort of a combination of already written parts mixed with alternate parts for choosing. Hold on, let me explain before we go down the road of self diagnosis, consider this for a moment: During the day, very often, I yell out, "Synchronicity!" Not like a nervous outburst, like "Fire!" or the obnoxious and loud pre/post lunch hiccup that echoes through our building matched with a jolly reply through the wall, "Hey Crystal!"
It's just a yell in my mind. And, some days, it's all day long. Answering my existence like the pool game where you close your eyes and yell, "Marco" while the person who's "it" yells back, "Polo" in order for you to hear where they are and tag them.
SO, I'm drinking coffee, reading, and look up to see Byron squeezing drops of honey from one of those restaurant squeeze bottles they use for ketchup and mustard and honey, into the musician's mouth, back onto his throat. He had stopped by to play a few songs before the show last night, the fundraiser for Heather, and his voice was losing, so he'd asked for some honey and Byron had delivered. It was a good image in the sun, the rays, honey drops falling from Byron's squeeze bottle, a young musician with his guitar round his neck and his foot on a tambourine. So, I looked back down to carry on reading page 103 of C.S. Lewis, Lion Witch and the Wardrobe, and immediately without a single half of a moment of hesitation my eyes went directly to the words on the opposite page that read, "a few drops of this will restore you." It's the part where Father Christmas gives Lucy her gift. It's a cordial made of the healing juice of one of the fire-flowers that grow in the mountins of the sun and the dagger to defend herself in great need. I know it's not good to focus on oneself too much...it can become a thirst that will never be quenched. But, it does make me wonder why I hear a lyric on the radio and within a moment, catch a road sign or board with the same word in it. Or, think of a friend I haven't thought of in years, and run into them at the grocery store the very next day.
Sometimes, I get the uncanny, paranoid sensation like Will Ferrell in Stranger than Fiction, that I'm in a movie that's sort of a combination of already written parts mixed with alternate parts for choosing. Hold on, let me explain before we go down the road of self diagnosis, consider this for a moment: During the day, very often, I yell out, "Synchronicity!" Not like a nervous outburst, like "Fire!" or the obnoxious and loud pre/post lunch hiccup that echoes through our building matched with a jolly reply through the wall, "Hey Crystal!"
It's just a yell in my mind. And, some days, it's all day long. Answering my existence like the pool game where you close your eyes and yell, "Marco" while the person who's "it" yells back, "Polo" in order for you to hear where they are and tag them.
SO, I'm drinking coffee, reading, and look up to see Byron squeezing drops of honey from one of those restaurant squeeze bottles they use for ketchup and mustard and honey, into the musician's mouth, back onto his throat. He had stopped by to play a few songs before the show last night, the fundraiser for Heather, and his voice was losing, so he'd asked for some honey and Byron had delivered. It was a good image in the sun, the rays, honey drops falling from Byron's squeeze bottle, a young musician with his guitar round his neck and his foot on a tambourine. So, I looked back down to carry on reading page 103 of C.S. Lewis, Lion Witch and the Wardrobe, and immediately without a single half of a moment of hesitation my eyes went directly to the words on the opposite page that read, "a few drops of this will restore you." It's the part where Father Christmas gives Lucy her gift. It's a cordial made of the healing juice of one of the fire-flowers that grow in the mountins of the sun and the dagger to defend herself in great need. I know it's not good to focus on oneself too much...it can become a thirst that will never be quenched. But, it does make me wonder why I hear a lyric on the radio and within a moment, catch a road sign or board with the same word in it. Or, think of a friend I haven't thought of in years, and run into them at the grocery store the very next day.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
It's a Girl!
We think. Although some are skeptics, the age old pencil test says Girl!
Congratulations!!
Congratulations!!
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Reunited
saw this photo on a photographer friend's blog and it looked familiar
Turns out I had the other half of it...
I'm pretty sure it's the same couple, check out the belt on the guy and her nails...so funny that we both took it with black and white film too, what a funny find!
Tara's:
Mine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/taraadair/89455526/
Turns out I had the other half of it...
I'm pretty sure it's the same couple, check out the belt on the guy and her nails...so funny that we both took it with black and white film too, what a funny find!
Tara's:
Mine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/taraadair/89455526/
Monday, October 6, 2008
ENTP
Extroverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving
Nathan told me about the site personalitypage.com
I'm still an ENTP. I took this same personality test as a requirement by my boss in Houston 4 or so years ago. Unfortunately, she seemed a bit disappointed with the results...She's an ISFJ (Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging) and according to the test, they aren't the best bosses. ENTPs are, however ;)
I always thought the test was wrong when I took it in Houston, but I took it again tonight, and it's the same. I still think it's inaccurate. Your best friend should help you take it.
Here's the free online test:
http://similarminds.com/jung.html
Nathan told me about the site personalitypage.com
I'm still an ENTP. I took this same personality test as a requirement by my boss in Houston 4 or so years ago. Unfortunately, she seemed a bit disappointed with the results...She's an ISFJ (Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging) and according to the test, they aren't the best bosses. ENTPs are, however ;)
I always thought the test was wrong when I took it in Houston, but I took it again tonight, and it's the same. I still think it's inaccurate. Your best friend should help you take it.
Here's the free online test:
http://similarminds.com/jung.html
Sunday, October 5, 2008
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