Zoe is getting her hippie on here. She’s taking a guitar class at her homeschool connection this fall, and so I hit up craigslist, and craig came through by hooking me up with a dude in Boulder selling this little 3/4 classical guitar for cheap. Zoe and I went to pick it up, and she can’t play a lick yet, but just loves sitting for hours and strumming the strings, regardless of the dissonance. It’s fun to hear her ask to play her guitar. For a while, at least until lessons started, I tuned it to an open chord so the constant strumming at least sounded half-way intentional. Her first class was today.
You know, I never would have thought I would be taking on so many teaching projects. It’s odd that teaching web design in a formal setting is never something I considered doing, but seems to be about half of my income right now. Maybe I just didn’t have the chops until now, but there’s plenty of people looking to learn this skill. The beauty of it, is that just like any other discipline, you can’t take a 2-day class and come out the other side an expert. So oftentimes, I still get the design work once the student realizes that to do this right, and to do it well, isn’t as easy as throwing open dreamweaver and calling yourself a web designer. Anyone can write a book… not everyone can do it well enough to make a profession out of it. Although it does make me wonder how professional songwriters must view hacks like me who engage in the craft that they make a living out of, but can’t seem to do it well enough to really take it on as a profession.
Plenty of church planting thoughts in my head. Realizing that now is the time to go through an assessment, and fearing the fallout if we don’t come out of it with overwhelming positive results. I’ve set my eyes pretty firmly on planting a church, and I don’t feel I’ve been short-sighted about it. It would be a hard pill to swallow if it turns out we are still years (or more!) away from that ultimate goal. Not that an assessment is the voice of God… but still.
I’ve been chatting with a friend via email (you know who you are) more about the campus/multisite thing. I’ve kinda wearied of thinking about it, but I have to clarify my thoughts on it because outside of the assessment process that’s the next big question to answer. It’s good to bounce the questions off of someone who is bringing less baggage (or at least different baggage) to the conversation than I am. I like that we can ask the questions, with more regard for the process and less regard for the answer.
And to wrap up my bloggity-bloggarifficness for the day, I am playing a show next Friday at Forza Coffee in Westminster with my good buddy Dan. Dan and I have gotten to know each other playing in the band together at church, and so we thought it would be fun to go all co-op on a show and just work to build up our chops a little bit. So if you’re one my Denver area readers, feel free to come on by… the details are available at my Facebook (see link to the right), or Myspace (see link to the right).
The more time I spend on this blog, the more I itch to redesign it. Because, you know, I really need another non-paying project to dive into. But I did update my design portfolio! Check it out! I’ll leave you with that.
