Trading Spaces!

So I have this great new bedroom now, and I need some art for it. Specifically, something to go right over the bed. It will be the first thing you really see when you come into the room. I thought maybe some of the humanities people out there might have some good suggestions. The room is painted beige, with white molding, and as of right now the bedding is blue and white, but that could easily change. Anybody have any good ideas? I'll try taking a picture and posting it later on.

okay trying again

Let's see what the picure icon does....

how about that? Happy Birthday to Grammy, number 86. She sure makes it look classy. She seemed really on her game when she was here -- I know she loved being with each of you. I think Ethan really made her come alive.

Okay, so that's all the playing I can do for now -- gotta get to work on Quicken stuff. THANKS GUYS for setting all this up!! I love your stuff!!!

Al -- looks like some fun people you're with on the 4th -- and NONE of them look familiar????Give us a who's who (in addition to Rosie the Riveter!)

and I loved the Bros K -- so true, mostly because we lose perspective when we get stuck in our own frame of mind. We are saved when we have a task or other people to live for and care for and realize how blessed we are! It's always fun to hear it in literature, and see truth in one great whole...

Love you all!

where's the instruction manual??/

Ha Ha -- I'm just clicking all over trying to figure out where everything goes, and how I can know where I am?? And what's a feed, and I just subscribed to one so I hope I like it -- hmmm, I'll even put up a picture if I can find out how......

Bros K

So, the only bad thing about my new house is that the commute is still almost an hour long. But I have realized that if I stop trying to read responsible things like the news or things for work, and instead allow myself to get lost in a novel, that it goes by really fast and I actually look forward to it. (No need to hurry and get home so you can get your stuff done and have free time later if you are already indulging in your favorite free time activity!)

So I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov, and came across the most delightful passage while riding the blue line. Here's a link to part of it on some other guy's blog. It's a priest talking to a woman about "active love," as he calls it.

'One cannot prove anything here, but it is possible to be convinced.'

'How? By What?'

'By the experience of active love. Try to love your neighbors actively and tirelessly. The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced of the existence of God and the immortality of your soul. And if you reach complete selflessness in the love of your neighbor, then undoubtedly you will believe, and no doubt will even be able to enter your soul. This has been tested. It is certain.' ...

'Active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go so far as the giving of even one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on statge, and everyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and perserverance, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science. But I predict that even in that very moment when you see with horror that despite all your efforts, you not only have not come nearer your goal but seem to have gotten farther from it, at that very moment--I predict this to you--you will suddenly reach your goal aqnd will clearly behold over you the wonder-working power of the Lord, who all the while has been loving you, and all the while has been mysteriously guiding you.'

Check out the rest of it. Thoughts?

Zax Life July '07

This will be a fun way for us to be in each other's heads! Remember this kid? He never sits still so all his pictures come out blurry!

Too cool for school--for a few more years, anyway...

Somtimes, you gotta put yourself in someone else's shoes...

And my favorite...

"Did you seriously just honk at me?!"

It's important to get those feet on the pedals...seeing the road? Details....

And with this blog you can walk with my star friends on Hollywood Blvd...




Be right there in Oz with me...




Come to the temple...

And even see Pepperdine at night...

Here's to the future! Let the good times roll, and start posting your stuff!

"We Can Do It!"

Here's a little sample for you of what we can do with our new blog! I'm posting a couple of fun pics from the Fourth of July in DC.

After signing the Declaration of Independence ...

I got a stars and stripes tattoo and met Rosie the Riveter! (Yes, the kids tent was my favorite part of the day :) )

We also heard Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and John Adams read the declaration at the National Archives.

And here we are on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial waiting for the fireworks to start.

Welcome to Yay For Famalez!

So Zach and I have hatched a plan, and you guys are going to love this, trust me. It's an online family room. I have a vision of all the fun pictures, stories, and links we can post here. In fact, give it a whirl. Write a comment and tell me what you think about the Pond Family going virtual with a blog and whether you have any suggestions.