Fall Ya'all

Well, I have tried to write one of these before, and I'm not ashamed to admit that I am definitely no writer. I would love to be able to sit in my high loft apartment in NY and write away on my mac like Carrie Bradshaw in Sex in the City, but...instead I just write amidst my two yapping yorkies. I love them dearly, but Lily drives me nuts sometimes. Since she's a rescue she feels the need to bark at everything because it is all so new, or threatening, I'm not sure which of the two.

Some people write about politics, religion and their children or soley display both their children and their portfolio and works of art on these things. I don't have any children, but the two pups, and I'm not much into politics. I know the basics, or so I think about McCain and Palin. Based on my limited knowledge...I like her. Powerful woman, trendy, can't stand on her high horse and belt out her opinions from non-experience, especially with her pregnant daughter. The only thing about Obama is that he has a beautiful website.

As far as religion is concerned, I'm not so sure about the whole institution of church these days. I grew up pretty strict and pretty Baptist. A lot of messages somehow brought together to be the "absolute truth" when in actuality they really are authority figures trying to guide you in the best possible direction or scare you from making some bad choices. Don't get me wrong, I don't doubt God, the Bible, my salvation or my relationship with him, merely how things get so twisted. Joshua Harris and others about Kissing Dating Goodbye. Idolization goes both ways. My friend Lindsay was telling me yesterday over coffee that her cousin and husbands first kiss was at the alter, and then she said, "Talk about building it up and idolizing it and putting so much emphasis on it." How true that is. You can worship sex as a focal point, but you can also worship making it not the focal point. And the biggest question lately is, where was Adam and Eve's wedding? I missed that part I guess. Not justifying, but these and other questions swirl lately. I think sometimes it might come down to the fact that some things are gray and no matter how hard one might try, there is no black and no white. It is easier to see things in color than in a blob, but it is okay to not know and to ask. Not asking means taking all the things we are told from other flawed individuals and calling it truth. I think we can do only the best we can do based on what we know about God and move. He won't let us go, no matter what. And of course there is the whole issue of doing things in community, as we seem to worship individualism on every level.

Well, that was that for the moment. In other news. Work is going well. I just brought on another contract developer and my first ever commission only sales person! I'm excited to see the direction that it takes. Her and I seem to work really well together, so hopefully I can get some more fun projects. I am working on WMU Theatre department logo right now, which will be sweet if it goes well as I will be doing all of the websites for the department. I just picked up a Dog Pawlor in Beverly Hills to do logo and branding for this week too. It is a good thing for so much variety or I would get bored so fast. I am launching a new site hopefully by the end of the week, so I will post a pic when it is finished up.

Things I love today:
Crisp Air
Old school alarm clocks (you know, no digital, just the big hand and the little hand)