I haven’t posted in a year - but I’m going to post in 08′
A lot
Hopefully!
here we are back for day two - yesterday was great and I’m sure today will be as well - but I’m seriously missing my wife and kids! Their smiles and voices are tough to go without for 8 hours of a work day(more like 10) so to try to make it on the occasional phone call for a whole week is rough.
CAN’T WAIT TO GET HOME!!
you’re doing great - keep up the good work!!
good morning,
It’s 5.30 in the morning back home where my beautiful wife and children are sleeping - and here we are at Humana 2.0. We got here super early (cuz Eric’s such a go getter) and got checked in - everything looks friggin awesome! I’m really looking foward to today - I’ll post more tonight
Shalom
It rained this morning and then it was partly cloudy (or is that partly sunny?) I’m completely amazed by large thunder clouds - they weigh many many tons - and yet they’re just floatin around - I’m sure there is a logical scientific explanation - but I don’t wanna know it.
I heard this on National Public Radio today “hectic action does not equal progress”
interesting……..
lastly, my wonderful wife showed me how to cut and paste web sites to add to my site -I am not tech-savvy - thank God for a wife who’s much smarter than I and super patient to boot
Now she’s telling me it’s bedtime!
Good Night Vox!
I’m sorry - I can’t resist - I’ve got super low character matrix scores and I’m very immature as well (I know that’s a tad bit redundant)
so I’ll just say it……….
they’re not
I’ve updated my avatar - a pic of my kids from a couple of years ago at our local ice cream super store - They are freakin adorable!
you all probably think your children are the cutest ……..
Hello Vox - I’m at a business/planning meeting for Vox Sacramento. This weekend we’re hosting a benefit for the The Mustard Seed School - a school for homeless children in downtown Sac - you’re all invited! Check out www.impactsacramento.org for more info.
by the way Sam - it’s been a while since I’ve posted and I really like the new write feature - what’s really funny is when I spell check, Vox comes up as spelled wrong. hehe
what do you write when it’s been over two months?
My children came home today from visiting lovely Carlsbad, CA (just north of San Diego) with my Mom and Dad. My “middle” brother Bruce and his family live there and once a year Grandma and Grandpa take my kids down to see my bro and his fam, plus you’ve got Legoland, Marine World, The San Diego Wild Animal Park and the beach! Needless to say they had an awesome time. It’s wonderful to see them after a whole week, something is seriously missing when they’re gone.
So when I got home from coaching tonight ( I coach my sons U8 soccer team-or “football” for the Radfords and clan McManus and pretty much the rest of the world-My wife Sue coaches my daughter Summers U10 team) my kids were home! I didn’t expect them until about 9:00 or later. The kids had dinner on the road so we all jumped in the car and headed to Vics -the finest ice cream and sandwiches in Sacramento - established in 1947 - and the original owners son is the current owner and the whole family still lives within a couple of blocks - lucky for us we live a couple of blocks away too! For those of you who might not know me,I’ve pretty much lived in this neighborhood my whole life.
So I had turkey and swiss grilled on wheat, Sue had grilled cheese, the kids had ice cream(hand made every morning on the premises)and cuz I was feeling good after running around with a bunch of 7 yr. olds I treated my self to a Mocha Chip shake - very good!
Well I gotta go put the kids in their own rooms, they wanted to huggle with Mommy.
I had planned on this being my first post after two months…..
The family is at the mall on a Saturday( a rare occasion ) having lunch and doing a liitle shoping for Dads birthday( 33 - more on that some other time)
Summer my daughter(who painted my wife Sues avatar) sees a young lady wearing fishnet stockings in a kinda 80’s punk rock way.
She asks a little confused-
“why does that girl have fences on her legs?”
My son says “to keep em safe”
I’m sooooo glad they’re home.
goodnight Vox
at least that’s how the song goes…(my brain is sadly filled with a ton of not so usefull song lyrics) we started out in a park like setting near to where the main sessions of the Orgins conference will be taking place. Eric and I chatted with a few folks waitng for the morning session to start and also we had the opportunity to meet Vox guru/trailblazer Dean Sharp “great to meet you friend” is a pretty cool phrase we’ve been hearing quite a bit around here.
The morning started off with Alex explaining the arc of the “Church on Brady” three sucessful transformations in something like seventy years - First Bapist, Church on Brady, then Mosaic…really awesome story! After that we cruised over to the meeting room to hear from Dr. Brian D. Russell …or just Brian(or is that BRAIN?) for a non-bible-schooled guy like myself I thought Brians lesson was amazing! He spoke on a missional approach to reading the bible -great stuff, he made the overarching theme of God’s desire to restore us as humans make a ton of sense.Very eye opening and encouraging.
We had a lunch break where we were headed over to In N Out with a bunch of IMN folks including our international brothers and sister……how come English sounds so charming when they speak?
After lunch we had a sesion with Dan Reeves great stuff from a 30 year practioner …the analogy that’s been going around is it’s like taking a drink from a firehose - alot of great info to try to take in - my littie brain needs a rest.
As if the day wasn’t cool enough, we then headed to the Mayan for the Mosiac 5:00 service - WOW!
great space, energy, music, film, folks. Erwin was super - speaking on leadership……only one thing missing - where were Marty and the Love Hammers? we had a quick debrief with the IMN folks and Alex and then it was off to dinner.
Cheap, greasy, New York style pizza with Eric and our new bro Jon - then we strolled around downtown looking for gifts for loved ones back home ….a couple of pints and one slice of pie (I’ll let you guess who had what) then we headed back to the car
A middle aged guy approached and said “don’t worry, I’m not a serial killer”(comforting to get that cleared up) “I was wondering if I could have a couple of bucks to buy a slice of pizza for me and my girl”
“You want pizza? you’re in luck friend, I know the place!”
So the night ended with buying a large pepperoni for Anthony and his girl……Bless you Anthony - I hope we meet again.
