Wow! 19 months flew by, just like... well 570 days, really. June last year, after about four months of weekly Skype calls with our present and to be future bossman Darin Petersen, the beautiful Val [tbV] and i arrived in Kensington, Philadelphia, Americaland to live and work at the Simple Way non-profit as part of the first batch of an internship program [which was later upgraded to a residency program when they saw our skills, [...]
i think Freddy Mercury said it best when he sang, "Can anybody find meeeeeeeee, some bunny to love." at first glance this may not seem to fully encompass the theme of 'Surprise' but what if i told you that your name was the beautiful Val [tbV] and it was around 2 in the morning and you had gone to sleep after a bit of a rough evening and been woken up to this friendly bunny [...]
i love my wife, the beautiful Val, i really do, and when i love her well, i think i love her really, really well, but when i love her badly, i can REALLY suck at it... one way i have becoming increasingly more aware of doing this is by giving her a "yes" to a question that she asks or a request she makes for me to do something, that sounds a lot more like [...]
we [myself, my beautiful wife Val, our housemate Sueihn and my gym and office buddy Coe aka 'Bubbly'] just got back from a very long trip which involved two twenty-five-plus hour two day road trips on either side of a one day Nurturing Communities conference which lead directly into the Christian Community Development Association [CCDA] annual conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota... what a complete blast. we had a great time road-tripping up, but it was our [...]
if you are a single person, then embrace that, completely. hope to be married if that is your dream, but be absolutely content with where you are and living in it, til the opportunity arises. don’t live where you’re not. if you are a married person, then embrace that, completely. be content with what you have, while always striving for more. if you are not constantly working at your marriage, then you may soon discover [...]
so i posted about the protest action we were involved in with regards to the outdoors sharing of food with homeless people on my 'the simple weigh' blog but i know a lot of people susbscribe to this one so thort i would stick the links here as well. click here for part I dealing with what i was pertaining to. click here for part II which deals with the picnic which was my beautiful [...]
so i have just posted the last [for now at least] post in the marriage series which ended up being a great 18 blog posts written by a whole bunch of my friends who are married well and passed along some really great marriage-enhancing advice and tips and wisdom. the beautiful Valerie ad myself might add some thorts of our own later but we're about to head for Texas to visit my sister and her [...]
so my irresistibly fish blog has been a little bit quiet since we left south africa because i have not had a lot of inet time and when i have i have been blogging my experiences on my new thesimpleweigh.wordpress.com blog so if you are wanting to follow our adventures at the simple way community i suggest you subscribe to that blog where most of my writing will likely happen while we're over here... if [...]
i have started a separate blog for posting 'the simple way' adventure related stuff so that people who are wanting to follow our journeys and have an idea of what's going on can simply sign up there and read whatever i get to write about things that are part of our philly trip - if that's you, you may want to bookmark this link where i have written a basic idea of what it's all [...]
years ago a book called 'Velvet Elvis' came out by this new kid on the block, rob bell, and everyone was reading it and telling me it was the greatest book ever and blah blah blah... i eventually got hold of it [was going thru my phase of taking my time to rush to trending books] and read it and didn't particularly dig it all that much - it was ok and there were some [...]