FYI, these pictures are also available on Flickr.
Liam wearing winter clothes
FYI, these pictures are also available on Flickr.
Liam, Uncle Mike, and my new lens – pictures from this weekend
FYI, these photos can also be seen on Flickr. Sometimes I put in little captions and other things that don’t show up here.
Liam’s 11-month pictures
Thanksgiving at Pismo 3
FYI, these can also be seen at Flickr.
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The Story of Thanksgiving
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The story of the first Thanksgiving
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Thanksgiving at Pismo 2
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Thanksgiving at Pismo
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Book Review: The Martha Rules
Subtitle: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as you Start, Build, or Manage a Business. Written and published in 2005 by Martha Stewart.
The narrative for this book starts while Martha Stewart is in prison. She talks about some of the very determined ladies she met who wanted to get out of prison and start their own businesses. While in the clink, Martha wrote some business training for them that turned into this book.
It’s interesting to read a business book written by a gracious, driven, vicious, visionary entrepreneur. Anyone who had model, stock broker, caterer, CEO, and felon on her resume makes for a good read.
I found the business principles rather obvious and unsurprising, but no less solid for all that. She makes liberal use of examples from her constellation of business friends and associates. Case studies are always interesting to me. And, of course, she frequently referred to lessons from her own business experience.
In the end, any of us can only speak from our own experience. And that’s what I found so limiting about reading Martha’s rules for business. They work very well if you’re building a company like Martha has built. But like every product Martha produces that has her name on it, ultimately it’s just Martha and some very nice window dressing.
Pictures of Liam – bathtime and tool time
This kid really loves bath time! I’d love taking baths if I had cool rubber duckies like that, too.
“Liam, this is a man-toy. You’ll grow up to love it. Maybe we’ll get you a little one some time,” daddy says by way of gender-typing his progeny.
My desire to be an artist
Recently, my heart has been tugged. It’s as if the Holy Spirit, called by some the Hound of Heaven, has been on my trail. He’s been giving me a desire that, at some points in my life, would have shocked me. It’s a desire to be an artist who impacts the world for Christ. I want very much for my art to communicate meaningful things and touch people’s hearts.
WHETHER I’m even an artist is a matter of serious debate, at least in my own mind. I know I create things, and I know know to execute a few techniques. But I feel an artist should have something visual to say, the ability to say it, and an audience of some kind. Thus far I’ve taken a few pictures, only one of which has achieved any significant audience or visibility. And that picture doesn’t say anything too profound. It’s just a cheese-ball crowd-pleaser. I’m not even sure that photography is my medium; lately I’ve been wanting to paint (though I don’t really know anything about painting or where to start).
But that desire is there, and it hasn’t gone away. I pray that whatever the medium and whichever the way, I’ll be obedient to God and create things which reflect his image brightly and compel people toward Him. Pray that for me, please.