Lighten Up: the Art of Laughter, Joy and Letting God – May Synchroblog

I mentioned yesterday that my post was a contribution to the May Synchroblog. Here are the other posts – great stuff and well worth a read. Jeremy Myers at Till He Comes – Lighten Up!  Maria Kettleson Anderson at My Real Journey - The Art of Passionately Lightening Up Melody Harrison at Logic and Imagination – {I [...]

Lighten Up – Laughter is the Best Medicine.

A couple of weeks ago I was chatting to Ricci Kilmer, about how much we miss her daughter Catie at our Mustard Seed staff and retreat times. I remember her telling us once that we needed more fun in our meetings. Not surprisingly, she was often the one who came up with ideas of fun [...]

Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests – Amazing Creativity

A couple of days ago I posted this on facebook and like millions of others around the world I am intrigued by Theo’s amazing creativity. Also love the way he connects his creativity to God our creator. Enjoy

Back From Mayne Island B.C.

Tom and I are just back from 5 wonderful days on Mayne Island, one of the Gulf Islands between Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Colombia.  This has become a yearly ritual for us, a few days away that refresh both our spirits and our bodies while enjoying a good time with friends.  The [...]

The Wild Goose Has Flown

Tom & I and Cindy Todd have just returned from the Wild Goose Festival in North Carolina.  The weather was hot, humid and dusty but any discomfort was quickly outstripped by the joy of the festival.  In some ways it was like a great homecoming of friends and family that we have not seen for [...]

Off the the NW Garden Show

Yesterday I spent most of the day at the NW flower and garden show.  Some of the display gardens are phenomenal with huge trees and logs that take cranes to lift and place them.  I came home wondering how on earth it is all put together in the 72 hours they have before the show [...]

Chocolate Anyone?

On Monday (Valentine’s Day) we toured Theos chocolate – a must visit for anyone in the Seattle area particularly if you are a chocoholic.  They actually let you sample as much chocolate as you like.  I had no idea that the making of chocolate is such a complicated process.  It makes me wonder how anyone [...]

God Created the World By Imagination

A few months ago I posted several articles on creativity and imagination so when I was asked to contribute to the synchroblog on Creativity and Christianity. These immediately came to mind and I cheated a little by drawing heavily on these posts here.  One person commented on one of these previous posts: I was reminded [...]

Are We Having Fun Yet?

Thanks Chris and Naomi Lawrence for making me aware of this: Volkswagen has started this new program called “the fun theory” where they explore new ways to get people to do things which are good for them or good for the environment. For example, it is noted that more people opt to take escalators than [...]

Organic Dairy Goes Rap with its Ads

Tom & I are currently in England so it seemed appropriate to highlight this very creative Organic Dairy ad from a British dairy Yeo Organics.