Just what it says…General
Yes, today is 365.
One year ago, I changed the way I eat/think about food.
OK, so this is the umpteenth time I’ve done this. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, it fit, then it didn’t. But dag nab-it, I’m trying to make it stick this time.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here’s one that shows this past year: Continue Reading…
A recent post prompt on Plinky.com was:
What’s your idea of the perfect Sunday?
My answer:
In four photos…
In an effort to declutter my various inboxes, I’ve been clicking the highlighted link below a lot this past week. I get so much email that I don’t read…why not declutter?
Still thinking about my Twitter and Facebook lists…
Are you decluttering as well? Give it a shot!
Today’s post prompt on “The Daily Post at WordPress.com” was:
Share a story about a memorable job interview
My Answer
Quite a few years ago, I got a call from a headhunter looking to fill a job – they actually were calling a number of people where I worked as they had quite a few openings. They weren’t telling all of us…but we still figured it out. I ended up finagling the company’s name out of the person (hey, I’m not stupid!) and said I’d interview for the position.
I’m sure that process happens quite often – though for me it was a first.
On to the memorable part…
Today’s post prompt on “The Daily Post at WordPress.com” was:
Share something that makes you smile.
My answer:
This was my second year at the blogging thing. I think I scaled back a bit, but I intend to pick it up in 2011… Anyway, these are the top five posts in number of views for 2010:
#5: Forgotten God – Chapter One [151 views]
During the Winter quarter of Sunday School at church, I team-taught through Francis Chan’s Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit. I wrote a series of posts on each chapter and one about the DVD resource.
#4: Review: Forgotten God DVD Study Resource [177 views]
Book end post to my post series as I team-taught through Francis Chan’s Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit at church.
I’ve decided I want to blog more. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I’m starting right now. I will be posting on this blog once a day for all of 2011.
I know it won’t be easy, but I’m giving it a shot. I’m promising to make use of The DailyPost, and the community of other bloggers with similar goals, to help me along the way.
If you already read my blog, I hope you’ll encourage me with comments and likes, and good will along the way.
Signed,
Dennis
…thought-provoking, insightful, and challenging on many levels.
Read the transcript at Sivers’ blog.
Imagine:
Right now, right where you are…
Sitting under a plastic tarp…
A terrible downpour…
You’re wet. Your family is wet…
The little that you have is wet…
…and that tarp is your shelter for the next few months.
That is the shelter that is proposed until May 1st for about 250,000 Haitians. I don’t know about you, but that just seems wrong.
From an MSNBC article:
Haiti’s homeless get tarps, want tents
Aid agencies tell quake refugees they’ll need to get by with plastic sheets
…
Instead the officials are mobilizing a plan they call the “shelter surge:”
– By May 1, one plastic tarp will be given to each of about 250,000 displaced families.
– Transitional shelters of 194 square feet, with corrugated iron roofs, will then be built.
– Shelters will have earthquake- and storm-resistant frames of timber or steel and are supposed to last for three years.
…
[Further details on this YouTube video.]
I’m sure there may be a logistic rationale for this, in reading several other articles, the general consensus of relief organizations is that tents take up too much room, but still – a tarp for someone who lost everything they owned? And for upwards of three to four months?
It blows my mind…I’m sure it does yours as well.
So I started blogging this year. It was pretty interesting to actually write stuff down that I was thinking about, going through, or just blog about a song that hit me or a passage from my bible study. Anyway, these are the top five posts in number of views for 2009:
#5: Potato, potahto. Tomato, tomahto. Unforeseen, Sloppy Wet. [110 views]
My comments on David Crowder Band’s cover of John Mark Mcmillan’s How He Loves Us – where DCB changed a few lyrics.
#4: How Would Jesus Tell The Christmas Story [189 views]
I asked the question: How would Jesus tell the Christmas story…the story of His birth?
#3: Hello? Anybody home? Think, McFly. Think! [232 views]
A post about how we how we easily miss or don’t fully grasp how great God is sometimes. BTW, this post referenced Biff from the Back to the Future movie – which cracks me up every time someone gets referred to the blog post when they do a related Biff, George McFly, or Back to the Future internet search!
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