I debated for a long time if I should take this photo, and I finally decided to just do it. Seeing their son sandwiched within such a hug made me feel at peace. (Taken with instagram)
Last night, I was supposed to make dumplings with Tong and Michael, but I forgot that weeks before I had promised my housemate Joseph that I would go to the Ark with him yesterday. For a moment I debated what I should do, but I decided to keep my word and go with Joseph.
I was blessed.
There was such a sincere atmosphere of joy and freedom the moment I walked in. I think those two words really characterized the whole night.
Something that I thought was really beautiful was when a couple (Joseph told me they had been with the Ark serving since the very beginning) came to the front and announced to the entire congregation that they were pregnant.
What struck me when the husband announced the pregnancy was that he didn’t say, “My wife is pregnant,” but he said “We’re pregnant.” That simple replacement of a single word carried so much gravity, the “her” to “we.”
Unity is beautiful.
(pardon the French in this poster)
- About 40,000 students graduate from design school every year.
- Humanitarian, social, or “good” design is hip right now.
- Design won’t save the world.
- The world doesn’t need design.
What the world needs is Jesus.
exhibition planning (Taken with Instagram at Mr. Green Bubble)
When my home church included sermon notes in the bulletin every Sunday, the notes would always end with this question:
Lord, what am I do in response to your word today?
As I was sitting on the bus waiting to go from San Francisco to Oakland, I thought about this, and it reminded me of how one of my desires in life is to constantly learn and not to be satisfied with “good enough.”
Leaping off of that, what I’ve decided to do is write every day about something new that I’ve learned and how I can apply that to circumstances or situations in the future. That’s it, it’s as simple as those two things.
What did I learn today?
Now that I ask myself that question, I realize that I learned so much. Let me rephrase that question.
What did I learn today that I want to remember?
That question doesn’t deviate much from the one before it, I wish I could remember everything. Let me try again.
What did I learn today that I want to share on Tumblr?
There are designers who focus less on the nuances of their typography and more on the richness of their content.
This is something I’m going to examine and remind myself of constantly.
It’s important that I don’t get stuck in a rut trying to kern a single word while the rest of what I’m working on demands attention. I need to become my own client and set hard deadlines for myself, otherwise things won’t get done as I waste time on details that will pall in comparison to other things.
But with that being said, the details are always important.
CANKERBANE MAIL GIVE AWAY #2
It’s that time again. Except this time I don’t have a bunch of extra copies of a poem lying around on my desk that I don’t want to throw away.
The process is the same as last time:
- email me a mailing address at cankerbane@gmail.com
- I’ll respond back and you should receive something in the mail within a week
It’s that simple. The difference between this time and the first is that I’m still not sure what I’m going to mail out. It will probably include some sort of handwriting and stickers, but maybe someone fortunate will end up with a poster?
A key factor in this second mail give away is intentionality. Mailing stuff to people through the USPS that isn’t cheesy catalogues or cheesier Christmas cards is pretty much dead as a practice.
One of my instructors this semester, Eric Heiman, said something interesting:
If you print something now, it better be worth cutting down the trees.
What I mail to you, I’m going to do my best to make it worth the trees (sorry trees.)
