Post of the day to this ripper from Julie Clawson
And check the controversy on my recent post Trade – Heague & Moran. It makes blogging feel weird.
Category: <span>Blogging</span>
Apologies to Anna because I keep forgetting.
I have been Meme’d and I think I’ll do it, because pulling a few sentences from a Terry Pratchett has got to be amusing (Or will just sound so incredibly sci-fi you’ll never go near one).
Rules:
- Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more.
- Find page 123
- Find the first 5 sentences
- Post the next 3 sentences
- Tag 5 people
The book: The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
Sentences:
In his right hand he carried the magical black sword Kring, which was forged from a thunderbolt and has a soul but suffers no scabbard. Hrun had stolen it only three days before from the impregnable palace of the Archmandrite of B’Ituni, and he was already regretting it. It was beginning to get on his nerves.
Hehe, Terry Pratchett comes through with something good!
And I’m going to defy the final rule because I might’ve been bad already and gone and gotten my Terry Pratchett and put it closer to me.
If you want to do the meme. Do. If you don’t, don’t.
After all my whinging, the internet is not totally destitute of quality help for stuck youth leaders.
In my digging for something that we needed for youth on Sunday FAST, which I didn’t end up fulfilling (but things wound up okay), I found a whole lot of intriguing and useful blogs. Along with design related thing – a spawn from Church Marketing Sucks. Interesting.
Chase these links:
Church Marketing Lab – brochures/cards/flyers/posters done by people for Churches, some pretty good work here. I have a small bit of fun doing youth programs now and then, but I really don’t produce masterpieces. This might inspire me.
Jonny Baker – check the ‘Worship Tricks’ on the right hand side.
Passionately Pensive – her writing is fun and she shares ideas now and then.
Rethinking Youth Ministry – the title says it.
If you know of any other good ones please share.
image by Dan McArthy (I sourced it from somewhere else… but as usual I have forgotten where) regardless, there’s something pretty timeless and beautiful about it.
I’m still giggling (and I don’t giggle too often) at the title of her blog,
Poets have been curiously silent on the subject of cheese
My little sister Emily has finally joined the bandwagon my sisters tried, although I haven’t seen movement there in quite a while.
- Laura at Accoucher
- Hannah at A Little Bit Suss
The post is classic Emily. I’m pretty curious to see where it goes.
I’m hoping that in trying to blog some of my thoughts or my everyday happenings then maybe just maybe I’ll be motivated to think and ponder things more than I normally would. Normally whenever I begin to ponder something it doesn’t last very long…most particularly because I kinda have a short attention span when it comes to some things…and I tend to be easily distracted. However if I blog about some stuff (descriptive I know!) then I actually have to think enough to get it into a form in which people can read…and hopefully understand and the extra bonus on this is, if I have it written down…my slightly dodgy memory won’t be a problem.
So Em, here’s to blogging through winter and beyond. (And if you need any help with wordpress do ask)