" Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before."

- 1 Thessalonians 4:11

That's a friend of mine that I met in NZ there on the banjo.

"... one reason many of us have not taken radical steps in our giving, for example, may not be so much because we love our possessions as it is because we fear isolation. If the radical, simple living we see Jesus talking about were more common in the church, it would be easier for us to live simply as well. But we look around, and everyone else has nice cars, nice homes, and lifestyles characterized by luxuries, so we accept that this must be the norm for Christians."

- David Platt in Radical p.205/206

This is great! People actually listen to me when I suggest ridiculous things!
Here are our first contenders for my mustache!

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Vote for your favourite one in the comments and keep them coming!

I've read the book (Blue Like Jazz) and I've read the book about making the book into a movie (A Million Miles in a Thousand Years). Needless to say, I'm pumped for this movie!

At the request of absolutely no one, I am providing a GIF of my mustache (read a picture of my mustache on a transparent background) so you can easily go into any image editing software (GIMP, photoshop, etc) and easily apply my stache to whatever you want; yourself, your mom, your dog, a unicorn. You're only limited by your imagination. Let me see what you come up with! You can post a link in the comments, email it to me at joelwitwer@gmail.com or just tag me in the photo on facebook. Your call.

Just right click, save as on the stache below and you're all set!

Never before has crashing a hot air balloon looked so fun

Great camera work, beautiful women as well as abandoned boats and airplanes.
I definitely have to make it Iceland!

The speed and ease at which he does this is astounding!

I kind of really want a go pro camera.

Last Tuesday, we were hanging outside of our house, grilling and just enjoying being outside when one of our little old neighbours walks by and strikes up a conversation with the questions "Do you like herbs?" Now I'm not too much of a fancy cooker, but I had just used some basil to make a chicken marinade so I said "Sure we do!" and then she launched into a spiel about herbs which was great to hear. She really loves herbs and growing things. She finished with saying that she would drop off a herb for us to play with. Well the next day a bag appears on our porch and we open it up to find not one herb, but 13!
Now the last time I got plants, I waited too long and they all died before I got them in the ground. Considering that these were a gift from a SUPER generous neighbour, I knew that we needed to get them in the ground ASAP! So yesterday, I enlisted the help of Ms. Ale and both built and planted a raised bed in my front yard. Neither of us had any real clue what we were doing, but it was a fun adventure and now I've got a ton of herbs!



I'll get a list of what all we have now and then I'm going to be looking to all of you for recipes to try!

One day ...

If anyone is in Portland, OR, I HIGHLY recommend going to this FREE conference tomorrow and Saturday!

4046 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR 97211
Fri: 6.30pm - 10pm
Sat: 9am - 12pm

Ladies, this is what you can expect from me when I take you on dates.

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First wedding of the season. Congrats Amol & Jess!

"Americans have to realize that behind every puff of pot, every line of coke there is death, there are shattered families."

- Javier Sicilia on the ongoing drug violence in Mexico

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The mustache musings post last Friday was in the context of this video. Our pastor at Northridge Church here in Rochester, NY had asked us me to make 'bumper' video asking people what they were listening to at that moment in time. It turns out that that is easier said than done ...

Feel free to 'like' the video and to comment on it. Both of those things help me feel popular!

Kids, I'm going to give you some straight up life advice right here.
The key to making successful videos is taking a m&m break in the middle of editing.

Check back here on Monday 6/13 to see the context of this video

I wish scouts had been more like this when I was part of it!

Ladies, take what's yours!

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A quick edit I threw together from the Rally for Rochester City Skatepark on Saturday, 4 June 2011. The music is Lake Michigan by Rogue Wave. Visit http://www.roccitypark.org/ for more info.
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"When you walk the (moroccan) medina with a toddler, you walk very slowly and you discover many things and meet everyone. But in the end, we just carry him, largely because his sense of direction is crap."

- Christine Gilbert on Almost Fearless

one last wonderful phos pictures post

"If you think you are too important to help someone, you are only fooling yourself. You are not that important."

- Galatians 6:3 (NLT)

I'm really just in love with Eliot Rausch and Phos Pictures right now.