The Fun Part of the Homecoming Dance

Bridget went to the Homecoming dance this past weekend at South Christian High School.  She told me the best part of the evening is actually the pictures and dinner beforehand!  What great friends she has.




  

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Oma B. with Dad & Uncle Ray in Bedum, 1940's

Love Thursday

Bridget, the Nerd, during Homecoming Week

The Gray and Brown Art of Catting Around

Leo is looking toward the slider to get out.


Now he sees my camera.  He is purring.


I let him around me because he really wants out.

  
He gets out and shows me how to cat around.


Then stops for one more pose...

The Final Nail

This piece, which was shown at MCC during ArtPrize just won the "Best Multi-Media Award" at the 2012 Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.  Brian is such a great guy!!!  Congrats to him!

Lovebirds

This past weekend, I met a former co-worker of mine, Jacqueline, and her fiance, Scott, for an engagement photoshoot.  What fun, fun, fun we had!  And they did a great job posin' it up for me :)













  
Wishing them a lifetime of peace and joy together! Yes.

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Edward, 1993
From tinker toy catcher's masks to optical based multi-touch screens...

Love Thursday

"The Untouchables", Edward's Senior Design Team at Calvin

Read about how Ed's team is creating an advanced multi-touch screen which will be built into a typical living room coffee table on the team website or a more detailed report here.

Leo, the Cat

Always the poser...

An Irish Blessing

We wish to the new child
 A heart that can be beguiled
By a flower
That the wind lifts
As it passes.
If the storms break for him
May the trees shake for him
Their blossoms down.

In the night that he is troubled
May a friend wake for him
So that his time may be doubled,
And at the end of all loving and love,
May the Man above Give him a crown.

Baby!

So my friend Allison who we had the shower for just a couple of weeks ago had her baby and I went to the hospital to take some photos.  He was born about 5 weeks early but was 5 lbs 9 oz and healthy.  Allison and Benny were so proud of their new little guy and I can tell they are going to be wonderful parents.

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Oma

Love Thursday

We were driving downtown to look at some ArtPrize exhibits this past October, and God made a special ArtPrize in the sky.

Joy

 " Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many, joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What then brings the joy we so much desire? Are some people just lucky, while others have run out of luck? Strange as it may sound, we can choose joy. Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently from the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it.

What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice."  -Henri Nouwen