I found myself looking out our window saturday morning wishing it would start raining. It was already wet outside, it must have rained through the night, but I needed it to rain right now. No luck. It didn’t rain. So I loaded up the truck for another Parramore Pond Clean-up. I just didn’t want to… [Read more…]
August 16, 2010
So it’s not glamorous. I’ll give you that. Plus it’s super hot and sweaty. If I’m honest about what motivates me, it’s the people I’m getting to know through the process not the work. I like the getting to know people different from me. I like hearing what they’re working on and thinking through how… [Read more…]
July 21, 2010
I’m serious I don’t wanna bring you down. But I got this idea in my head a couple weeks ago and I haven’t been able to shake it out: we, I mean we the human race (I know it’s grandiose but I think it’s a human problem), talk a lot more than we do. In… [Read more…]
July 14, 2010
I spent some time over lunch working with a couple guys on a new video for the BETA center. It wasn’t long, maybe an hour making sure we had our ideas straight, thinking through each section focusing on showcasing the good work they do and helping their audience emotionally connect with the need in their… [Read more…]
July 7, 2010
So in college I read this sociology book. It was somewhat long and complex but one thing it said was that they tried capitalism in Europe, before America was discovered, and it didn’t really catch on. Something like, people weren’t incentivized by more money. I mean they couldn’t get them to work longer by paying… [Read more…]
June 30, 2010
I got into an interesting conversation during last Saturday’s Parramore Pond Clean up. As I walked past the young trees down toward the edge of the water a friend reached down to pick up a cardboard box. I watched him do it, then kept walking with him around the pond. I thought for a moment… [Read more…]
June 15, 2010
I heard Buddy Dyer on the radio yesterday. He said, ”There’s always going to be things to work on in Parramore, but a lot has been accomplished in the last 5 years” As I listened my mind went straight to Pastor Jackson fully robed, energetically preaching to his congregation in the heart of Parramore. I… [Read more…]
June 11, 2010
I met Angela (d|c board member) for a ribbon cutting ceremony at the New Image Center this morning. Parked on Church and walked past a barber shop with this sign on the front, “cover your underwear before coming in.” When I got to the center (on parramore and church) the little room was packed, maybe… [Read more…]
June 10, 2010
I wish you could have been there Monday night. The Coalition is a different place at night. Adam (d|c board member) and I waded through the crowds finishing dinner and finding a place to crash for the night and into the trailor that serves as the “small fries” room for the downtown branch of the… [Read more…]
May 20, 2010
Driving in the car this morning I heard an ad for La Nouba. They said you could come and see “feats or creations of imagination.” That term sounded really exciting to me “creations of imagination.” Then I remembered talking to a friend of mine who had seen the show recently. I’ve never heard anything but… [Read more…]
September 26, 2010
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