Posts Tagged "love"
Moments With My Grandparents — Lake Photo ed.
My grandparents house is a special place. Besides my childhood home, no other location holds more precious memories. Of course, it wasn’t the house or the lake which allowed such freedom from worry and showed such tremendous love during my early summers–it was my grandparents. It didn’t matter that their lake wasn’t the biggest or most popular in Indiana, that we learned...
Read MoreDoes Education Kill Creativity?
Creativity, in the midst of long lectures, tedious projects, and sleepless nights spent pouring over illegible notes, takes a solid hit to the teeth during our formal years of higher education. It’s easy to conclude that the education system itself squanders the best of our creative efforts by forcing us into patterns of rote memorization, thereby depleting our appetite for energetic...
Read MoreJuan and Diana Are Married! — Colombian Wedding Photo ed
Quinn and I recently got to go to Medellín, Colombia, for the wedding of Juan and Diana. It was truly a trip of a lifetime and a wedding we will never forget. Medellín is a beautiful city full of beautiful and intriguing people and it was so much fun reuniting with family and friends and being a part of their big day. Congrats Juan and Diana. We love and miss you very...
Read MoreThoughts On Turning Twenty Seven & Art
Set in 1940′s Greenwich Village, Edward Hopper’s, Nighthawks is one of my favorite pieces. Nighthawks soothes my mind and straightens my often times tousled thoughts in ways no other painting ever has, as if my own existence is somehow bound to its canvas and bordered within its frame. Hopper said this about his art: Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist,...
Read MoreThe Irony of Christians Making Fun of the Gay Community
The irony of making fun of people who are gay is similar to the irony of making fun of anyone. That is, we make fun of people, ideas and cultures that don’t align with our agendas, personalities, and belief systems. This is the essence of making fun. At the heart of bullying is misunderstanding and a lack of relationship to that which we choose to ridicule. We make fun of people because we...
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