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Since I hit a goal of views on my photostream, as well as as the fact that I won my first print from another giveaway~ I have decided to do a free print giveaway!
You all know the drill! Please choose a few (1-3? not entirely sure yet..) photos from my stream and put them in brackets in the comments below!
Not sure of all the details yet-- how many will win and how many prints each or the ending date.. will see how it goes!!
I really hope some shall enter or I shall feel sad...
Soooo, please enter! :D
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P.S. I tagged some who have expressed interest in a giveaway in the past.. or, if not, who are simply greatly inspiring to me and I would love if they entered :) not that you have to or anything~ sorry if you don't like being tagged! thanks!
*edit: also, please let me know if you'd be interested in doing an exchange! :)*
EDIT: Okay, So I'll consider this a fall giveaway type thing.. and will be closing it on the last day of November: November 30. Hoping to get a few more entries before then.. thank you so so much everyone!!
Word Play Quilts
by: Tonya Ricucci
Quilt made by:
Lynne Tyler
Martingale & Company
Book due out in December 2010
(Word is a series of designs for books of the Bible. This is Nahum. Find out more about Word.)
Have you ever been so mad at someone that you actually spend your free time thinking of creative ways to weave words together and get the most violent verbal impact? Meet Nahum, the king of the verbal assault. Even though his book is just 3 chapters long, Nahum has some of the most brutal put downs I've ever read. I'm not talking about "your mama's so fat" jokes either. Nahum is a straight up hater. I would never want to get on this dude's bad side.
Repeat Offenders
You may remember the city of Nineveh from Jonah. The Ninevites were doing bad stuff and God told Jonah to pay a visit and drop some judgement. After a three day tour in the belly of a whale, Jonah finally goes to Nineveh, drops the judgement, Nineveh repents and God holds off on the death and destruction. Apparently, Nineveh had its fingers crossed...
Would Jesus throw poop at my enemies?
Nahum comes down hard on Nineveh and it got me wondering about something. Prophets (like Nahum) are supposed to speak for God, but Is God really saying all this stuff in Nahum? I mean, is God feeding Nahum word for word? For example:
Nahum 3:3,6 - Charging cavalry, flashing swords and glittering spears! Many casualties, piles of dead, bodies without number, people stumbling over the corpses.... I will pelt you with filth, I will treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle.
and
Nahum 3:19 - Nothing can heal you; your wound is fatal. All who hear the news about you clap their hands at your fall....
In Christian circles, it's pretty much a given that Jesus is the most accurate picture of who God is. That said, I can't picture Jesus throwing poop at people and having a party when bad stuff happens to them. (That actually sounds like the complete opposite of what he'd do.) It isn't just Nahum either. The entire Old Testament is filled with awful words attributed to God. So what's up?
How heretical are you going to get with this, Jim?
I'm not saying that the Bible isn't inspired or something. I just wonder how much of Nahum is an accurate reflection of God's character and how much is a reflection of Nahum's character. Could it be that Nahum's idea of how Yahweh worked was skewed and tainted by the influence of his time and culture? If so, could it be that my idea of how God works is skewed and tainted by the influence of my time and culture?
Prints of this design will probably not be hanging in the youth room of your church.
I'm sure most of you reading this have never formed the fingers of your hand in the obscene way found in this week's design. (Some of you may even be so holy that you think it's just a picture of someone counting.) I realize this design could be offensive to some folks and that is why I think it's a perfect fit for Nahum. (See verses above.)
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One kind word can warm three winter months.
- Japanese proverb
1.3 sec, f/22, ISO 200,focal length 22 mm, polarizing filter
www.intersectionconsulting.comWord of Mouth (WOM) is enigmatic - fairly straightforward and simple to understand yet elusive and difficult to engage, spread and sustain.
Here is are a few ideas/elements (of many) that make up word of mouth marketing: Viral Capacity; Consumer Empowerment; Positive Interactions and Lead Generation
Whenever I want to feel better about my life, I read Job. I'm not gonna try to paraphrase what happened to Job. Rather, I'll attempt to communicate the suckiness of his story through an exploration of a common curse word.
Job is the S**t
There is curse work in the english language that starts with an "s" and ends with a "t." This curse word is in a few common phrases like:
1. When she finds out, the s**t is gonna hit the fan.
2. That dude got the s**t kicked out of him.
3. Uh oh, she is in some deep s**t.
In those phrases, "s**t" is a negative thing. If you want to insult someone, express displeasure or describe a bad situation, "s**t" is your go-to word.
Here it is in a nutshell. The word "s**t" would feel insulted if someone called it "Job."
S**t, Job. You're old
One interesting thing about Job.... Even though it's in the middle of the Bible, most scholars say that is actually the oldest book. That means that almost all the people we've read about up to this point knew the story of Job. While I can't be positive about this next part (but you know I love to make wild speculations about the Bible), I'd bet that in the ancient Jewish culture they used "Job" in the same way we use "s**t." Three speculative examples:
1. You guys sold your brother into slavery and then lied and told your dad that an animal killed him? If your dad ever finds out, the Job is gonna hit the fan!
2. Dang, David! You kicked the Job out of Goliath!
3. Noah got drunk and did what?! He is in some deep Job.
I hope you're not expecting insight from me
Job is a dense and complicated book that raises a ton of questions about what God is like. My spiritual gift is sarcasm, not Biblical exegesis, so if you want to know more about Job, my pastor wrote a pretty good piece about it that I'd encourage you to check out.
Next week: Not all Psalms are happy...
What is a koala?
The koala is a small bear-like, tree-dwelling, herbivorous marsupial which averages about 9kg (20lb) in weight. Its fur is thick and usually ash grey with a tinge of brown in places.
The koala gets its name from an ancient Aboriginal word meaning "no drink" because it receives over 90% of its hydration from the Eucalyptus leaves (also known as gum leaves) it eats, and only drinks when ill or times when there is not enough moisture in the leaves. ie during droughts etc.
The koala is the only mammal, other than the Greater Glider and Ringtail Possum, which can survive on a diet of eucalyptus leaves.
Habitat & Diet
'Habitat' refers to the types of bushland that koalas like to live in. They are found in a range of habitats, from coastal islands and tall eucalypt forests to low woodlands inland.
Koalas today are found in Queensland , New South Wales , Victoria and South Australia . Their range extends from the Atherton Tableland west of Cairns in Qld to islands off the coast of Victoria and South Australia in the south, and west to central and western Qld, NSW and Victoria.
Koalas live in societies, just like humans, so they need to be able to come into contact with other koalas. It is because of this they need to have areas of suitable eucalypt forest which are large enough to support a healthy koala population and to allow for expansion by maturing young koalas. Koalas are highly territorial and in stable breeding groups, individual members of koala society maintain their own "home range" areas.
The Koala is well suited to life in the trees. The koala has an excellent sense of balance and its body is lean and muscular and its quite long, strong limbs support its weight when climbing. The arms and legs are nearly equal in length and the koala's climbing strength comes from the thigh muscle joining the shin much lower than in other animals.
Its paws are especially adapted for gripping and climbing with rough pads on the palms and soles helping it to grip tree trunks and branches. Both front and hind paws have long sharp claws and each paw has five digits. On the front paw, two fingers are opposed to the other three, rather like a human's thumb, so they are able to be moved in opposition to the fingers. This allows the koala to grip more securely. On the hind paw, there is no claw on the big toe, and the second and third toes are fused together to form a 'grooming claw'.
Koalas have a thick woolly fur which protects them from both high and low temperatures.It also acts like a 'raincoat' to repel moisture when it rains. The fur varies in colour from light grey to brown, with patches of white on the chest and neck, inside arms and legs and inside the ears. Mature males are recognisable by the brown 'scent gland' in the centre of their white chest.
The fur on the koala's bottom is densely packed to provide a 'cushion' for the hard branches it sits on, and has a 'speckled' appearance which makes koalas hard to spot from the ground.
An adult male koala can weigh between 8 and 14 kilograms and a female between 6 and 11 kilograms, with the heavier animals coming from the southern areas where they have adapted to the colder climate by an increase in body weight and thicker fur. If you see Koalas in Queensland, they look noticably smaller than Koalas from Victoria.
Koalas are mostly nocturnal animals and they are most active during the night and at dawn and dusk. This is because in the cooler hours they are less likely to lose precious moisture and energy than they would during the hotter daylight hours. An average of eighteen to twenty hours each day are spent resting and sleeping, and the remainder for feeding, moving around, grooming and social interaction.
The Koala's nose is one of its most important features, and it has a very highly developed sense of smell. This is necessary to differentiate between types of gum leaves and to detect whether the leaves are poisonous or not.
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