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11 rotary dial phones & 1296 gift cards [day 231]
A few years ago, in my “excessable” art show, I had a gift card rug made out of 1296 gifts cards from different stores. The show was in July and I left the rug in the car a little too … Continue reading
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Tagged 11, 1296, art, basement, bell, black, card, cards, carpet, crazy, day 231, design, excessable, foyer, frisco, gallery, gift, gift cards, hang, hanging, help, home, jump, keep, kids, landfill, light blue, melt, moms, old, orange, phone, phones, photos, pile, pink, red, retail, retro, rotary, rotary dial, rug, sculpture, shopping, show, showing, silo, stuff, talk, taped, texas, together, toolbox, video, vintage, white, yellow
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a year in pictures [day 216]
Honestly, some of these might be more than a year old, but they’re all the same, year after year… lots of stuff. Most of these were taken in abandoned places, houses, farms, buildings, vehicles, you name it. No matter where … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, a year in pictures, abandoned, american flag, ashtray, bathroom, blowfish, blue, building, business, can, cans, closet, clutter, cookie monster, crap, day 216, daycare, dolls, expired, farm, floor, food, gone, hoard, hoarder, hoarding, house, junk, kitchen, landfill, materialism, mess, navy, nursery, old, photographs, photos, plastic, poster, rainbow, roses, rug, rusted, sale, scatter, shoe, sink, spiderman, spray paint, stuff, texas, tires, too much stuff, toys, trash society, tree farm, tub, tubs, tv, viewmaster, vintage, waco, workshop, yard
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last year’s blog post 2 days before Christmas [flashback]
There’s not much time left until Christmas. It will go by very quickly though. Looking at the Facebook news feed, I get the distinct feeling people are ready for this to be over. People are either extremely tired or they … Continue reading
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Tagged arrival, austin, blue pulsing dot, busyness, christmas, commercialism, did I turn off the iron?, fixed, flashback, happiness, home, infiniti, iron, joy, lonliness, neighbor, pandemonium, purple haze, red push pin, road trip, sadness, sleigh, texas, volume knob
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helping the homeless stay warm [day 194]
Thanksgiving day, we brought many coats and blankets to Dallas to pass out to the homeless people living there, trying to stay warm. Even though there was a lot of food, many said they had already eaten, as everyone gives … Continue reading
who is Lee M. Cardholder? [day 149]
Let me start by saying I’m not a baseball fan, but I did watch the Texas Rangers game last night and it’s pretty cool that they’re going to the World Series. As I typically do with any sports games, including … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, capital one, cardholder, day 149, debit, debt, design, designer, dog leash, facebook, friend, get out of jail free, graphic, leam, lean, lee, lee m. cardholder, lien, load, m., owen, own, paycheck to paycheck, rangers, secret language, small business, subliminal messgae, texas, venture card, wells fargo, world series
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flying by the seat of our pants [day 143]
I had an interesting conversation with a guy I met recently in our church group. Curt lived in Hawaii for a long time, after living in Amarillo, Texas. We were discussing the “green issues”, possibly prompted from my lack of … Continue reading
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Tagged 20%, bag, bags, by, cardboard, costume, day 143, fly, foam, food, halloween, hawaii, junk, my pants, no impact man, of, packaging, pant, paper, plastic, recycle, seat, styrofoam, texas, the, trash, veggies, waster, wings
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just updates [day 123]
Just a few updates today, no rants. 😉 Birthdays. My son’s birthday is next week. We shopped on eBay for gifts or I told him he can have some money to spend. He doesn’t want a party, but just a barbecue with … Continue reading
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Tagged 1/3 year, birthday, birthdays, dallas, day 123, help, homeless, mckinney, our calling, texas, the samaritan inn, tires, update
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the challenge: day 25 [what are you for?]
We decided to take a trip down to Waco and go to Church Under the Bridge. (churchunderthebridge.org) I so wish it was closer… or I was closer. A two hour drive to church is a long drive, but for this … Continue reading
[book review] trolls & truth by jimmy dorrell
Paperback: 215 pages Publisher: New Hope Publishers – Impact (August 17, 2006) Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Trolls-Truth-Realities-Todays-Church/dp/1596690100 ISBN-10: 1596690100 This is an amazon.com book review I did on June 5th, 2010. I’m not sure where I first heard about church under the … Continue reading
recycling the recycling conversation [day 19 & 20]
On day 14 of the challenge, I blogged about a recycling program I set up at our church building. I have received some emails about my “free recycling program”, challenging me with the question, “Is it ethical?” Let me start … Continue reading →