After a full year, I have returned. One year ago, I was able to lead a short term team from my church to the Tohoku region of Japan (in Iwate) to help in the relief effort with CRASH Japan. This year, I have returned with another team (the 3rd official team from our church to …
Star Wars Summer!
Check out these cool summer E-cards from starwars.com!!
A Whole New Level
I saw it on a whole new level... FIELD LEVEL. When I was a kid, my dad, my uncle Ronnie, and my grandpa used to take me and my cousins to Dodger games. My grandpa seemed to really like watching baseball. We'd all put on our blue Dodger jackets and hats, then head to Dodger …
Blue Roses Falling
I picked up the uke in college because of a band called Three Plus. The first uke I bought was this $80 soprano from a guitar shop on the westside. I led some worship songs with it for our fellowship in college, then let my cousin borrow it (indefinitely) when I ordered a new tenor …
Maker Faire Bay Area 2012
We took a trip up north this past weekend to run Bay to Breakers, but the day before we had some time to stop by at Maker Faire in San Mateo... a fetival/fair with all these innovations/inventions. Let me tell you... this place is crazy nerd central (aka, pretty cool). If you're an engineer or …
Maturing Like Oaks
A lesson from an old oak. I was at a Come Away retreat put on by the Leadership Institute a few months ago, and Alan Fadling directed us to Isaiah 61: “The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent …
Pad Thai Popcorn
WHAT THE?! Me likey. I have to try this... Thanks to Food Wishes and Man Made DIY for directing me there.
Divine Designs
Here are some interesting ads from a Baltic Tech Conference called LOGIN, combining the latest internet/tech companies and some of the oldest world religions. Props to New! Ad Agency in Lithuania for these. Interesting social commentary by a non-religious group... and beautiful designs. If I spoke Lithuanian, I might be interested in attending! What are …
Bon Iver singing Bonnie Raitt
Can't stop listening to this.
HUE: the beauty and power of color
We're less than a week away from our 2nd Vine Gallery show. This show's theme is entitled HUE: the beauty and power of color. We've given some of our artists randomly chosen color swatches and asked them to come up with pieces featuring those particular colors. Half of our gallery will be showcasing these pieces …
