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Derek Sivers: Keep Your Goals to Yourself
This generation has been called “coffee-drinkers” who merely talk about their great future endeavours, but don’t do anything to accomplish them (I guess this is only slightly more flattering than the label “lazy”). In this short TED talk Derek Sivers explains one possible reason why so many of us have a hard time reaching our…
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Create Your Own Heart-Shaped Aperture
I came home yesterday to Anna crouching on the floor with camera and a piece of cardboard in hand, taking photos of a bunch of mini-lights. Once I finally figured out what kind of effect she was playing with I got really excited. You can buy creative aperture kits (also called “bokeh”) that will help…
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The Fresh Paint Smell
Anna’s brother and sister in-law visited from Holland last week, and what was supposed to be their vacation time turned into a big work project that left our house re-organized and our main floor freshly painted. They also poured their blood, sweat and tears (almost literally) into sanding down our armoire by the front door…
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Newslettering Made Even Easier
In “Newslettering” I talked about how cool Mail Chimp is for sending HTML emails to your supporters, followers, family, friends. HTML emails = images and text in the email (no more annoying PDF or Word attachments), and Mail Chimp’s friendly, smooth (and did I mention FREE?) service makes creating quality email newsletters even better. And…
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Resurrection
Resurrection: Rob Bell from The Work of Rob Bell on Vimeo. A beautiful “illustrated monologue” and collaboration between two amazing artists, Rob Bell (speaker) and Chuck Anderson (graphics, storyboards, & art direction). What I love about this piece is the energy of Bell. A super-talented public speaker, his excitement, pacing and passion drew me in.…
