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Debussy for your Wednesday
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Last night I spoke to college kids about beauty & image. They were a kind, thoughtful audience.
Keep wearing those pj’s everywhere while you can, college kids.
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At one point in my odd faith journey I was obsessed with being right and convincing others that they were wrong. Later I realized that Jesus was so unconcerned with being right that he let the people kill him.
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Dan Allender, in a video to the students of Mars Hill Graduate School during their spring banquet, spoke to the current process of MHGS changing its name. From the time I began my 3 years at MHGS in ‘07 there were always murmurs of our school changing its name in order to differentiate from Mars Hill Church, and that time has finally arrived. In the video Dan talks about his trip to Athens, Greece and how difficult it was to find the actual location of Mars Hill. I spent some time in Athens and had a very similar experience. I asked half a dozen people where it was and no one knew what I was talking about. Finally a guy said, “Oh I think I know where that is. That’s where we go to play guitars and smoke pot.”
I am deeply indebted to Mars Hill Graduate School’s faculty, staff, and student body. It was a transformational period of my life and worth far more than the loans I took out in order to attend. Changing the name of the school has been, assumedly, a difficult process, but I trust that it’s been done with great care and consideration. I’m excited to see my alma mater’s new chapter begin.
Mars Hill from below
on top of Mars Hill
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Cheap comedy.
A 13 year old girl, Rebecca Black, makes a music video describing what life is like as a young teenager, and she gets crucified by millions of cowardly, anonymous people on the internet. A friend of mine put it well:
“When I was 13, if I called a friend and she didn’t call me back, I was a mess for a week.”
Rebecca Black, in the midst of one of the most difficult stages of development, is scrutinized in a way that no human deserves. She is courageous enough to make something, put it on the internet, and what does she get? “Youtube dollars and the inevitable ‘ur gay’ comment below her video,’ as Shannon described it. This girl deserves a medal or a pony or a lifetime supply of compliments. The fact that she hasn’t physically harmed herself from the barrage of poor language thrown at her is astonishing. Absolutely astonishing.
Well done, Rebecca. You are a brave woman.
Goodnight.
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I have a few weekends still open for wedding shoots this spring/summer. I’m offering a 15% discount off of all my wedding packages for the next week (3/27-4/3). Email me with inquiries and questions, and in your email please mention that you saw the 15% discount offer on my blog.
EXTRA SPECIAL
If you live in Sweden, Norway (especially Oslo), Iceland, or Peru I’ll shoot your wedding for free. All you’ll have to pay is cost of travel and hotel accommodations for 5 days.
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Jonathan & Esther
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“You’re afraid of making mistakes. Don’t be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people’s faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.”
-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury gets it.
