Yesterday we fished for perch (Caleb caught the biggest perch I’ve ever seen), swung from a tree into one of the deep holes in the creek that crosses my parent’s ranch, and drove into Austin for a great meal at Z’Tejas. (Good grief it a was a fine meal. Z’Tejas just catapulted onto my list […]
Flooded in Texas
While Heather is out of the country on a mission trip, the boys and I are spending some time in Texas with my parents. Last night it started raining. And it rained and rained and rained. Long story short: we’re right in the middle of all of the flooding just north of Austin that you’re […]
June 27, 2007 by 4 Comments
Random Declaration #10
If we had cable TV I’d be hooked on the Deadliest Catch on the Discovery Channel. I watched it several times in the condo during vacation and I was mesmerized. I’m putting being a deckhand on a crab boat in the Bering Sea at the very top of my list of jobs I don’t want […]
June 20, 2007 by 5 Comments
Coming Back
I’m coming back. I really am. I’ll be blogging regularly in no time at all. Just finishing up a nice two week vacation. Congratulations to the Spurs. I was one of the three people who tuned in to watch last night. It was interesting to watch how involved David Robinson was in the celebration. Maybe […]
June 15, 2007 by 3 Comments
Mental Accounting
In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz asks an interesting pair of questions: Imagine that you have decided to see a concert where admission is $20 a ticket. As you enter the concert hall, you discover that you have lost a $20 bill. Would you still pay $20 for a ticket to the concert? Schwartz […]
May 21, 2007 by 10 Comments
God-Forsaken Places
Challenging words from Alan Roxburgh: If we want to discern the emergent work of God, we’ve got to ask, Where are the most God-forsaken places today? Let me suggest to you, one of the most God-forsaken place for us, is the local congregation. Why? They don’t get it. They don’t understand any of this stuff. […]
May 17, 2007 by 5 Comments
Prison Entrepreneurship
I heard about Prison Entrepreneurship on the Catalyst podcast. Check it out. One hundred thousand dollars in sales per week ? 90% net margin ? 90%repeat business ? On an investment banking teaser, this company profilewould have generated widespread interest among the investmentcommunity?had the core product not been crack cocaine. A largepercentage of inmates come […]
May 8, 2007 by 1 Comment
The Answer to How is Yes Part 3
In The Answer to How is Yes, Peter Block suggests six questions that will take us in a much different direction than the usual How? questions. Before we get to the questions, here are a few introductory comments from Block. “The alternative to asking How? is saying Yes–not literally, but as a symbol of our […]
May 8, 2007 by 4 Comments
Back
I spent most of last week in Malibu at the Pepperdine lectures. I had a great time chilling out at the Malibu Country Mart, eating stuffed fajita quesadillas at La Salsa, driving up and down the Pacific Coast Highway, and hanging out with a few good friends. Yesterday I took the day off from Garnett […]
May 7, 2007 by 8 Comments
The Answer to How is Yes Part 2
In The Answer to How is Yes, Peter Block identifies six How? questions that he says are “always reasonable, but when asked too soon and taken too literally may actually postpone the future and keep us encased in our present way of thinking.” 1. How do you do it? “When I ask this question, I […]
April 26, 2007 by 6 Comments
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