Just Let Thanksgiving Be Thanksgiving!



I found this quote on a review of the Windham Hill Thanksgiving CD.

“Aww, poor Thanksgiving. It’s been reduced to Christmas’ bridesmaid. I believe the only people who celebrate the day most untouched are elementary school teachers and their students. Today it’s a day alot of times to eat and then plan which store to hit at 4am (ok, I’m a hypocrite, I do that too)

If your town is anything like mine, you’ll know that Christmas decorations are available to buy by the middle of June. Now I love Christmas as much as the next person, but lately I just want Thanksgiving to be Thanksgiving.”

Kind of interesting…

Where Salvation and Discipleship Meet
Read this simple, but powerful statement over at Hanson Carter’s blog, Tales from the Briar Patch…

“Talked about Zaccheus today……His salvation occurred when he stood up and declared that he would return fourfold all that he had defrauded from people.

WOW!

Where Salvation and Discipleship Meet
Read this simple, but powerful statement over at Hanson Carter’s blog, Tales from the Briar Patch…

“Talked about Zaccheus today……His salvation occurred when he stood up and declared that he would return fourfold all that he had defrauded from people.

WOW!

Where Salvation and Discipleship Meet

Read this simple, but powerful statement over at Hanson Carter’s blog, Tales from the Briar Patch…

“Talked about Zaccheus today……His salvation occurred when he stood up and declared that he would return fourfold all that he had defrauded from people.

WOW!

The Care and Feeding of the Inner Designer/Creator
I know some amazing creative people who are masters of design. I asked some of them these questions one day:

“What do you do to ‘feed’ your ‘inner designer?'”
“How do you stimulate your creativity?”
“What are some resources that might help us ‘non-designers’ get ‘better’ at it?”

So, in response to some of their repsonses, I’m doing some things…

Right now, I’m in the middle of reading Michael J. Gelb’s How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day

And one of Gelb’s chapters lists some of the “great music” that has inspired and developed creative people over the years. I’ve always been a music lover – music of all kinds – but since starting the Gelb book, I’ve been on one of my “classical” kicks. Right now in my CD player are these five new CDs…

Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring

Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 “Tragic”

Mozart’s Requiem

Brahms’ A German Requiem

Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs

Great recordings! Great prices!

The Care and Feeding of the Inner Designer/Creator

I know some amazing creative people who are masters of design. I asked some of them these questions one day:

“What do you do to ‘feed’ your ‘inner designer?'”

“How do you stimulate your creativity?”

“What are some resources that might help us ‘non-designers’ get ‘better’ at it?”

So, in response to some of their repsonses, I’m doing some things…

Right now, I’m in the middle of reading Michael J. Gelb’s How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day

And one of Gelb’s chapters lists some of the “great music” that has inspired and developed creative people over the years. I’ve always been a music lover – music of all kinds – but since starting the Gelb book, I’ve been on one of my “classical” kicks. Right now in my CD player are these five new CDs…

Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring

Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 “Tragic”

Mozart’s Requiem

Brahms’ A German Requiem

Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs

Great recordings! Great prices!

The Matrix Revolutions
OK…so I just saw it this morning. (First time I’ve ever gone to a movie at 9:00 a.m.!)

Anyway, pretty nifty special FX and all that…but I’m scratching my head. Lots and lots of questions that I have…

What’s up with the Oracle?
What’s up with the little girl?
What’s up with the Architect?
What’s up with Neo/Smith?
And…isn’t Will Smith perhaps the luckiest man on the face of the earth? (Oh, sorry…that wasn’t supposed be in there!)

Still thinking, still pondering…

“No, I didn’t know. But I always believed.”

The Matrix Revolutions

OK…so I just saw it this morning. (First time I’ve ever gone to a movie at 9:00 a.m.!)

Anyway, pretty nifty special FX and all that…but I’m scratching my head. Lots and lots of questions that I have…

What’s up with the Oracle?

What’s up with the little girl?

What’s up with the Architect?

What’s up with Neo/Smith?

And…isn’t Will Smith perhaps the luckiest man on the face of the earth? (Oh, sorry…that wasn’t supposed be in there!)

Still thinking, still pondering…

“No, I didn’t know. But I always believed.”

Dysfunctional Organizations…Teams…Families…Churches?
I read this in Jordon Cooper’s weblog yesterday, then found the whole article.

Symptom #1. Leaders who fake it.
Symptom #2. Bosses who like to point fingers.
Symptom #3. CEOs who don’t set priorities.

Interesting…it’s got me thinking today. Could be dangerous!

Dysfunctional Organizations…Teams…Families…Churches?

I read this in Jordon Cooper’s weblog yesterday, then found the whole article.

Symptom #1. Leaders who fake it.

Symptom #2. Bosses who like to point fingers.

Symptom #3. CEOs who don’t set priorities.

Interesting…it’s got me thinking today. Could be dangerous!