Have I mentioned that I love the ideas behind The Idea Camp? It’s such a great un-conference, open and FREE (aka Pay What You Will) concept!
The event is based entirely around conversations with the “speakers” via interviews, Twitter and txt messaged questions, rather than a 45-minute lecture by some “expert” in his field.
Continue reading The Idea Camp – Justice edition
Imagine living in a house with 20 people when you don’t enjoy entertaining people. Yikes!
The Generous Husband writes…
A few months ago my bride and I attended a meeting on “new monasticism” – living in intentional, multi-family groups. Yeah, that can be a commune in all the ugly ways, but it can also be something good. But I only mention it here because of something said to me by the man who owned the house in which we met. This fellow, a bit older than I, said he did not like entertaining – and I commented on how odd that was given that he regularly had a group of 20 or more in his home. He then said “I am learning to die to my preferences.”
I think that’s a lot of what we as followers of Christ are called to do.
Continue reading Dying to preferences
It’s no secret that I enjoy being online and connecting with others.
But being on vacation last week — primarily in international waters — forced me to forgo my daily habits and go dark online for the extent of our trip.
I loved it! It was a nice change of pace for sure. Granted there were several time when I thought — ooh I should Twitter that — but the high price of phone service kept me in check.
Continue reading Going dark
Thomas has an interesting take on taking photos of folks in public over on the nanolog — and specifically taking photos of the homeless.
I have no idea who the chap is in the pic nor do I have any thought as to why he considered it acceptable to photograph the Soup Van and the queue of folks waiting to be served.
I actually was quite blatant about taking the photo… but either he didn’t notice or didn’t care.
I found his behaviour rude and… if I am honest… rather dangerous.
We do not take photographs as a rule because we don’t want to put a barrier between us and the folks we serve… some of which would prefer not to have their photo taken.
He was rude because he didn’t ask… and he took a chance because he would have met with some strong opposition if he’d been spotted.
In hindsight… whilst I appreciate what he’s trying to do… it still seems wrong to me and probably explains why I prefer to take pictures of buildings or people I know. People need a choice….
People deserve the common courtesy to be asked whether or not they wish to have their photo taken. Not an easy task considering the number of folks present.
I’ve posted 250+ of my favorite photos from our vacation last week in the Bahamas.
You can view them here (click on the photo below)… or on Flickr or as a slideshow.
Also, you can see the photos Laurie picked as her favorites on Flickr as well.
Just a couple initial thoughts tonight, about our cruise…
We had a great time with our family — it made for a great trip. I even had a good time after my legs became the main topic of conversation — after my stank-nasty sunburn on Tuesday.
And unlike our last cruise – we hardly noticed the ship moving or rocking at all.
However, since we got off the ship this morning (around 9:30 am EST) I’ve continued having “motion moments” in which I turn or move a certain way and feel like I’m on a very rocky sea vessel — odd.
And finally — no matter how pampered we are on the cruise — Royal Caribbean still can’t beat the normal size of my toilet seat, the softness of my toilet paper, the average size of my shower and the softness (and length) of my own bed.
There’s still no place like home.