Tag: ideas

Answering the question :: What should I blog about?

I have several friends (and family members) with blogs that get updated somewhat frequently. Others are far more occasional, and still others, I have to wonder if they’ve forgotten their password.

When I ask them about it, their usual response is, “Well I don’t know what to write about.”

I understand, I’ve had writer’s block before.

But there’s one thing I’ve found that gets me over my writer’s block every time — writing.

I know you’re all looking at me funny now but perhaps I can explain.
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Co-op dinner time

Jose and Sally

It’s been a while since we’ve had one of our infamous dinner clubs at our house. I always had lots of fun having folks over for a themed meal — with everyone participating in the cooking and eating of the meal.

Granted, we do have our weekly small group which sometimes takes on the dinner club idea with everyone pitching in for the meal, but even participation in that’s been slacking as of late.

But I came across an interesting article today, talking about building community around the preparation and enjoyment of a family’s evening dinner.
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Fried egg pizza

fried egg on a pizza?

It’s been a while since I’ve added any recipes or food ideas to the blog, so I thought this week would be a great week to catch you guys up on some of the eats around Casa de Blundell.

No thanks to some of her new meds, Laurie wasn’t feeling too interested in eating anything but crackers and cereal last week, so I took the opportunity to try a couple ideas that had been rolling around in my head recently.

I recently found, thekitchn.com and a couple posts related to fried eggs stirred my imagination.

We LOVE the Royal Red Robin burger at Red Robin (with the fried egg on top), so I’ve been trying some other unique ways to eat fried eggs as well.
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Bring your ideas to the table

Ted Kennedy (from wikipedia)

On Tuesday, America lost a lifelong champion of the under resourced.

Regardless of your political view, everyone I’ve heard who’s talked about Sen. Edward Kennedy has said he always fought for the under resourced and always worked to build compromise wherever possible to make landmark legislation happen.
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Question of the day :: church

Posed this question via Twitter (and Facebook) today.

Q of the day :: (140 characters or less) what would your ideal church/community of faith look like?

Here are the responses thus far…

Jess_Hays @jdblundell a gathering together of christ-followers accepting of each others brokeness united to worship our savior. Small and intimate.

darrinreeves @jdblundell it would look like a festival I was at this summer…no one batted an eyelid about what you looked like etc…it had all sorts

truckerfrank @jdblundell A Scottish pub

truckerfrank @Jess_Hays Drat your answer is better than mine. I’m going to pout.

robgt2 @jdblundell re qotd – church would be in/own a community center and serve the community. Or in St. Arbucks! And like @truckerfrank’s.

What would you add?

Generating ideas :: where do ideas come from

photo by desiitaly

The latest podcast from Mars Hill is a discussion on Creative Theology. Jeanette Banashak and Don Perini discuss… including many of the places creative people generate their ideas. Don says the list comes from an ever changing list by Charles Thompson.

Don suggests that creative people try to utilize these times every chance they can. Look over the list and make note of the places where ideas come for you.

  • Taking a bath or shower
  • Driving
  • Sitting on the toilet
  • Falling asleep or waking up
  • During a boring meeting
  • Reading
  • Exercising
  • Waking up in the middle of the night
  • Listening to a church sermon
  • Manual labor

Ideas are gold

Once you realize where many of your creative ideas come from, come up with a capturing machine. Create a system for capturing your ideas wherever you are. If you know where your ideas come from, always be prepared to write your ideas down in those situations. Whether that’s soap chalk for writing in the shower, or a 3×5 card for writing down ideas while driving (please pull over first :-)) be sure and capture your thoughts.

Some other great ideas are in the podcast, such as activities to help improve creativity.

Where do you tend to come up with great ideas?

Related ::
Mars Hill
Mars Hill podcast feed
Creative Theology podcast
Creative Theology notes/slides