moving on down the line

i have heard back from 3 schools so far. good news from all. where will we go? who the hell knows. anybody want to vote? still waiting to hear from the cavaliers and the bulldogs...

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The Whatles?

So a previously unheard version of Revolution is making the rounds. It clocks in at just under 11:00 minutes. And it's awesome.


Check it out here.

Francis Chan Quote

"When people make changes in their lives...it carries greater impact than when they merely make impassioned declarations. The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives."
-Francis Chan from Crazy Love

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Woods by Bon Iver

I found this cat on emusic. This song is awesomely creepy & compelling & fascinating. I can't stop listening to it.

I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind, I'm building a still to slow down the time.

T-shirt recommendation for Scotty

You look good in yellow. And squirrels are awesome.

Vonnegut in Hartford

So, I have been talking to the artist who helped Vonnegut get into making prints, who now manages his artwork, and he is going to lend about 30 pieces to us for a show in the gallery at our center February 27th-March 8th. It should get great crowds and I get to introduce Vonnegut to my students.

How cool is that! We sure have a lucky curator who gets to hang it all.

"...there is the kind of Christmas with presents piled high, the gifts of guilty parents as bribes because they have nothing else to give. The wrappings are ripped off and the presents are thrown down and at the end the child says – ‘Is that all?’ Well it seems to me that America now is like that second kind of Christmas. Having too many THINGS they spend their hours and money on the couch searching for a soul. A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and Nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy and sick." ~John Steinbeck

what are you - some kind of picasser?

so, as we are all much, much, much more interested in supporting artists and surrounding ourselves with original art (as opposed to played-out prints from super-stores) so i thought i would share this website of very cool and affordable artwork in limited editions. dig.

http://www.20x200.com/

RIP Moya

Don't know why this struck a chord with me when I heard it on the NPR: CLICK HERE

Can we get one of these for the cottage? Along with our water trampoline that we WILL do someday?

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Oops II

Interesting Article on IKEA & Greeness

CLICK HERE

Uh oh...

Snow + Ice + Snow

What? Gender Neutral?

http://genderanalyzer.com/

"Without a Big Story to make sense out of life and death, we are left with only desperate, individualistic autobiographies of struggles for love and purpose." | Richard Dunn from Shaping the Spiritual Lives of Students

Our Little Morning Person

Mommy: "Meka, do you know what today is?
Meka: "I just want butter."

(Correct answer is Mr. Matt's birthday)

Baby E

DIY | Floating Books Shelves

After reading about some floating book shelves over at www.skyejethani.com I decided on a little DIY.  After visiting eHow.com and nicking their instructions I took a little trip to the hardware store with a gift card I had from Christmas.  

The only supplies I needed to purchase were the L brackets, drywall mounts & some fender washers.  The brackets were under $4 a piece & the other stuff less than that.  Other supplies that I had on hand were 2 good sized (9" +) books I didn't intend to read/use anymore (yes, one of them is the DaVinci Code; it was worthy of being torn up & not read again...probably shouldn't have read it the first time), some Gorilla Glue & wood screws.

I drew a line in the middle of the book where the bracket would go, used the bracket to mark the holes where I would put the screws and then did the same thing on the inside of the book where the back pages began.  I didn't really get how eHow was suggesting it be done so I made it up.  I took my utility knife and notched out the pages until the bracket was flush with the back cover and fit well in the slices I had notched out.  

I glued the pages together that I had scored for the bracket to fit in, then I put in the screws through the back cover on the marks (it worked so I must have measured correctly or gotten lucky).  I had to put quite a bit of pressure on the book so the pages didn't wrinkle from the screws.  I also put a bunch of Gorilla glue on the bracket and back cover.  

I put the drywall mounts in the wall so that the book would be 44" off the ground, 7" to either side of the bed and then screwed the bracket into the drywall mounts using the fender washers since the screw head was too small for the bracket.  That's funny...screw head.  Too small.

Anyway...add a few books and voila...there's a stack of books magically floating on our wall.  

I'm somewhat pleased with the result.  They actually look much smaller than I envisioned but I really couldn't have gone bigger without larger brackets and significantly larger books.  Maybe on the next try.  Fun little project!

"This is good music dad!"
Meka, commenting on Bob Marley's One Love