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Thinking A While
While it is that I am still thinking about changing this site to being more purposful. I am also thinking if I should even be having sites at all. In some ways, I feel like there is something better out there for me, that is more than the web, more than accessiblity, more than anything that I know of. The thing is that I don't know what to think that it is.

I know that some folks have a specific talent and can most def say they will go one way or another. But ho do folks who are truely multitalented do things? They cannot be so spread out the whole of their lives.

Just a few of my thoughts again.
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Changing Direction...Maybe
I am thinking that I might make a change to this website. Changing the focus of the things that I post and what I really should be doing while on this site. Its a different look at the Internet, but not really differnt if I am only talking about me.

The main idea has me taking the site to the direction of accessiblity, technology, and faith. There would be an occasional poem here and there, but for the most part, it would be me looking thru that lens and then seeing about how to personally shake things up

Of course, that would mean that I would have to change the site some, and I am currently looking for an FTP solution for my Treo that would allow me to easily upload files. I have some website development software that I have been beta testing and I am itching to start developing (but not necessarly coding).

We will see. It is something that I am really thinking that it is time to do.
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Catching Up While Lunchin
Seeing that I cannot write these while at work, I am making somewhat of an effort to catch my eyes and a breath by coming here and posting a post of one.

You might have noticed that the Expo link in the portfolio is not working, this is because that site has been temporarly taken down. Once they make the changes and it goes live, it will be good again. The other new link is the Suitland Manor Urban Design Competition mini-site. That one is still up, even though the contest is over. At some point soon, I will move that to my server and point the link here.

As a whole, work has been hard, and I am getting thru. I am thankful for this job though. Sometimes I do not understand, but Dad has a plan that I am only privy to a piece of. To that piece, I have to have peace.

I have been writing a bit more the last few days. Nothing that I will share here, at least yet. But I have started getting back into it. I need to figure out a title for this next compliation. Hopefully, it will be more full and less sorrowful than last year's.

That is about all that I will say at this junction. I need to get back to work and the tea cafe has been good to me in giving me a chance to just stop and breathe a bit this day. Usually it would be a Thurs stop, but today was my stop and for that I am grateful. Peace and blessings till next post.
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I was over at Holy Culture Radio's forums and there was a nice thread posted there by GStylez asking to just expound for a bit on some Scriptures (link). Here is what I posted, and just has me sitting still for now:

Ecclesiastes 12:13
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

Real simple aint it. To me its been a hard lesson and one that reading threads, living on the edge of my means and considering life's possiblities has me to sit on this day. This verse appears near the end of the book of Ecclesiastes. And while we can take this verse in the context of the book it was written, I want to take it in the context of how Jesus many times preached it.

Love the Lord your God with your whole heart, mind, body and soul.
It was one of those things that while in the law it was attainable, the culture of life and the pressures of living to that law made it hard to do. But the culture was not the pressure of life, the culture was this "thing," created and pulled out apart of by God, for the specific purpose of showing to the world that all is not lost because He would send a redeemer to change the heart of the world to come back to Him. This concept of fearing God was so foreign to culture, and at the same time motivated the Jewish culture in everything. If they could not show in everyday life that they feared God, then how could Abraham account for them that they truely loved Him completly?

...and love your neighbor as you love yourself
This duty that was had. To show forth the glory of God in our everyday living withuot trying to micromanage things; to be a neighbor to people whom God said even not to mingle with. How could I love myself and say that I do not love them. This is probably a lot harder than the first great commandment, and yet it is preached often by Jesus as a neglected matter of the human condition. Yes, they went to the temple, yes, they paid alms, yes, this day was observed, and all of it was done without any consideration for the person who was too lame, too poor, to persecuted, to do the same. Was it really faith that made the lame man walk when Peter and John went to the temple, or was it that they finally hit on what the Preacher and Jesus Himself stated, if you do not love the least of them, how could you even say that you love me.Read More

A moment more Lord
Give me one more please
A moment more to get this right
I need a chance to stand in place
A chance to stand in peace
Help Lord I cannot feel my legs
My head has bumps where life usually flows
You I need
Because I cannot stay here
I need a moment less here
And many more with you
Give please
Heal please
Peace please
I know I need what only you have
You can heal what hurts I am
I...
I...
I give in
Be it done to me according to your Word.

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ok, so I am a bit excited. And if you are looking at my site thru the lens of Firefox or some similar browser that at least tries to meet some standards then you would get me some.

ROUNDED CORNERS!!!

I have been waiting a good while for CSS3 for this (and text and image tuneability), and now I can at least say its here for this side of things. I am now thinking of how to do this for MMM in such a way that I do not have to do images for each rounded corner, and still be able to have it for when browsers such as IE and Blazer don't show it.

CSS3 is almost here, this is getting exciting :-)

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Resting For Now
I have had a bit of extra time to rest my bones today after a long weekend and have to say that it has been really good for me. As I am sitting here, the only sounds are that of birds and a few cars in the background (really in the background). I like that it has been quiet enough to hear Dad throughout the day. Where most days at this time I would be coming home and thinking of how hard work has been, I like that this Sabbath has been such that I could just rest in Him for a while and be refreshed.

Weirdly enough, I am by no means energetic, I am actually more tired that I was when I woke up. But that is not because I have been doing work. The most that I have done today was take out the trash and move a few boxes. And even after I finish this post, I will be going back to lay down to listen some more to the stillness of this day.

I do hope that if you have stumbled here, that you also take some time today to consider being still and quiet for a few moments. There is much that God can say to you, and just as much, there is much that your body can recover from by just taking a few moments to let life live itself for a while and resting.

Have a blessed one and see you when things get busy once again.
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When I sit and listen
My hands do this motion to match
The music and all it does
Starts to flow through my hands
It works its way into notes in my knees
And love I do it feels
Never thinking of the real
Only the air and table are my instruments
And yet with the change in tone
I am given nothing but feelings of home
Its amazing that it would roam
And make feelings excited and tickles of bone
It speaks its own tone
And reaches into the depths of my home
That home inside to which I roam
This I never bemoan
This tickles of my hand's bone
Oh when I sit and listen
My hands do this motion to match
The melody heard only to me
This song all my own.

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There is this project that I am working on, just the thought of it tires me and depresses me. I dont know why that is the case, but again today it has been that feeling with this project again. I don't like this feeling, and its something like this that would make me consider (again) to put down web design despite hearing God's in this area and for this job.

The song on my ears says that He Remains, He is the same, He never changes. I'd like to have that kind of patience and consistency. And yet I know that wishing and having have the difference in being tried. Tis hard for me. Tis quite hard for me.Read More

Its been a while since I have sat and wrote here. But, I want to just write on a few things. Seeing that this blog is highly personal, and tends to just float wherever my mind is at the moment.

Right now, as in the whole day, I have sat on an excellent piece of Scripture in Revelation. Namely Revelation 4:10-11. Here is that piece

The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

Kinda neat bit of worship there. But it was my mood today. I just wanted to lay down my head and be in His presnece. Of course, that is hard to do when you are working so hard lunch comes at about 2:30pm, but that is in some sense where I find myself in him (to quote a poem of mine).

Then I sit here and think about this website. The issues with the Flash not showing the HTML the way that I'd like it to is getting at me some. Maybe I will take some time to redo it, so that I can do some neat things like change the styles and stuff like that. But that would usually mean sitting here at work, or at least in a place like Infusions Tea Cafe. That is probably the only reason why I want a laptop, well that and music.

I had a great weekend this weekend. I was sick, a bit tired after roller skating with Jen (cousin), but all in all a good time. I need to catch up on some rest and so for this post adeu. If you came here just to check me out, I am the guy who dropped his crown a while back ;)Read More