Sunday, January 30, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Fun with GIMP (Open Source Photoshop)
I took this picture in Hawaii and then used a free program called GIMP to edit it. I am learning how to edit things in GIMP and I will post more as I learn new techniques...
Friday, January 21, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
journal
Here's an idea for writing in your personal journal, or just something to think about on your way to school, work, or the store. The hymn "More Holiness Give Me" has 3 verses with 8 phrases in each verse. That's 24 phrases in all. One year I tried using one phrase for every 2-week period as a writing prompt. The hymn is a sort of prayer, so it is easy to ponder the phrase and then try to think of ways during the coming 2 weeks to strive to seek what the phrase asks the Lord to give you.
For example: The first phrase is "more holiness give me". For 2 weeks, think about ways that we can be more holy. The next two weeks you can ponder how to have "more strivings within", and then "more patience in suffering", or "more sorrow for sin". It gave me a focus every day as to what I might do to become more holy, patient, hopeful, or meek.
Even if you don't have time to write about it in your journal, each phrase gives you something of real value to ponder and seek the Lord's help to improve.
Let's see, mathematically, that means the song would fill 48 weeks of the coming year with journal or thought prompts. We already missed the first two weeks of 2011, so we would now be pondering "more strivings within" from Jan 16 - Jan 31. The rest of the song will take us through the year until December, when we have just enough time to ponder the Savior's birth and enjoy the stories of Christmas. How fitting that the very last phrase of the song is "more Savior, like thee".
I love you all!
~Mom
For example: The first phrase is "more holiness give me". For 2 weeks, think about ways that we can be more holy. The next two weeks you can ponder how to have "more strivings within", and then "more patience in suffering", or "more sorrow for sin". It gave me a focus every day as to what I might do to become more holy, patient, hopeful, or meek.
Even if you don't have time to write about it in your journal, each phrase gives you something of real value to ponder and seek the Lord's help to improve.
Let's see, mathematically, that means the song would fill 48 weeks of the coming year with journal or thought prompts. We already missed the first two weeks of 2011, so we would now be pondering "more strivings within" from Jan 16 - Jan 31. The rest of the song will take us through the year until December, when we have just enough time to ponder the Savior's birth and enjoy the stories of Christmas. How fitting that the very last phrase of the song is "more Savior, like thee".
I love you all!
~Mom
The Strawberry-Orange Smoothie for Attractive People
2 cups plain or vanilla yogurt
1 bag (10 oz) Cascadian Farm® frozen organic strawberries
2 tablespoons orange juice
1 tablespoon honey
Friday, January 7, 2011
Strawberry Orange Banana Booyah!
The Strawberry, Orange and Banana Booyah! - 03 Jan 2011
Andrew & Amy
3/4 - 1 1/4 cup orange juice
1 cup fresh strawberries
1 ripe banana
ice cubes
Monday, January 3, 2011
Favorite Quotes...
"If my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain, I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true ... and hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms"
—J. B. S. Haldane, Possible Worlds, page 209
"When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less. Each thing, from the single grain of Dust to the strongest eldil, is the end and the final cause of all creation and the mirror in which the beam of His brightness comes to rest and so returns to Him. Blessed be He!"
C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy) An "eldil" was an angel like being of light
—J. B. S. Haldane, Possible Worlds, page 209
"When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less. Each thing, from the single grain of Dust to the strongest eldil, is the end and the final cause of all creation and the mirror in which the beam of His brightness comes to rest and so returns to Him. Blessed be He!"
C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy) An "eldil" was an angel like being of light
Peach and Strawberry Smoothies
Peach and Strawberry Smoothies - 03 Jan 2011
Miranda & Tommy
In the NINJA... place the following:
1 cup frozen peaches
1 cup frozen strawberries
1/2 cup vanilla ice cream
1 tsp vanilla flavoring
sugar to taste
Blend in the NINJA for as long as you need to get the ingredients combined.
Miranda & Tommy
In the NINJA... place the following:
1 cup frozen peaches
1 cup frozen strawberries
1/2 cup vanilla ice cream
1 tsp vanilla flavoring
sugar to taste
Blend in the NINJA for as long as you need to get the ingredients combined.
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