a break
Posted on 26 April 2010 | leave a response
Category: quotes/excerpts, thoughts of the conglomerate
Taking a break from le blog. Excited for a season of solitude, intentional seeking, and doing.
Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
The classical Disciplines of the spiritual life call s to move beyond surface living into the depths. They invite us to explore the inner caverns of the spiritual realm. They urge us to be the answer to a hollow world. John Woolman counsels, “It is good for thee to dwell deep, that thou mayest feel and understand the spirits of people.”
–Richard Foster, “The Celebration of Discipline“
latvian folk song
Posted on 12 April 2010 | leave a response
Category: creativity, music, video
This video is from the closing ceremonies at the “2008 Song & Dance Festival in Latvia”. Over 12,000 singers were involved. Something about the final solo singer that comes in at 3:31 captured my ears and made me feel quite peaceful. I wonder what she was singing about.
ideas, ideas, ideas
Posted on 12 April 2010 | leave a response
Category: creativity, music, video
Ideas are everywhere. Coming up with ideas are not necessarily the problem. The problem is turning those ideas into reality, and not just reality, but a well-thought out, well executed reality. To quote a friend of mine, we often have poor applications of great ideas. I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately. What makes a person have good ideas or be creative? What is it to be creative?
I think we’re all creative, every one of us. Yes, some people are more artistically minded than others, but we are all creative. So what’s the difference between someone who is perceived as creative and not? It’s the execution of creativity….actually making it happen, and making it happen well.
Slight tangent…..I think the video below was quite creative and the idea behind it was worked out in a simple, yet impactful way. Whether you like Nickelback or not, I think it’s a pretty sweet video.
availability vs. capacity
Posted on 8 April 2010 | leave a response
Category: thoughts of the conglomerate
Just read a great post by Joel A’Bell on “Availability vs. Capacity”. Definitely go read the post if you’ve got a sec.
Three thoughts struck me.
1. People are different, which means they may need to be equipped and empowered in different ways.
It’s important to be sensitive to this because everyone learns/functions/grows/etc. in different ways. One way won’t always work for another.
2. People may have the capacity for something, but not the availability.
Joel was talking about how we shouldn’t punish someone for not having the availability. The thing we must do is recognize the capacity (or potential), and help that person grow and flourish in whatever season of availability they’re in, because their current lack is not in capacity, but availability. (However, it’s also important to recognize there are times we need to sacrifice and find ways to make ourselves available in the midst of full seasons.)
3. People may have the availability for something, but not the capacity.
This is actually kind of a backwards statement, because EVERYONE has capacity in some area. The trick is to figure out where their capacity (or potential/gifting/talent) is. Sometimes it’s easy to see and sometimes it’s not. But if someone has availability, the key is to help that person grow and flourish in the area where they have the capacity.
pixels
Posted on 8 April 2010 | leave a response
Category: video
Seriously? Seriously?!
Ridic.
http://www.dailymotion.com/videoxcv6dv
Location Scouting
Posted on 7 April 2010 | leave a response
Category: video
We’re doing a film shoot tomorrow that I am SUPER pumped about. Shot a quick video as I was taking some footage of potential locations.
VITAL – “Airport”
Posted on 6 April 2010 | leave a response
Category: creativity, video
Download “Airport” and other tracks from VITAL for free here.
hammock: “breathturn”
Posted on 29 March 2010 | leave a response
Category: video
I watched this video and a little something in me changed. There’s something about birds and flying that has always captured my heart….stirred my soul. It speaks to the wonder in me, and the wonder around me.
to what do we conform?
Posted on 23 March 2010 | leave a response
Category: quotes/excerpts
“The mind conforms to the order of what it concentrates upon. The heart conforms to the beauty of what it gazes upon.”
–Richard Foster, Life With God
intention
Posted on 23 March 2010 | leave a response
Category: quotes/excerpts
Sobering. Challenging. William Law just punched me in the face from the grave.
“It was this…intention that made the primitive Christians such eminent instances of piety, that made the goodly fellowship of the Saints and all the glorious army of martyrs and confessors.
And if you will here stop and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.”
–William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
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