Voting vs Living

"As Christians, we are delusional if we think we can vote and elect the Kingdom into being. The Kingdom can only be lived into being."

~ Ron Cole from Jesus...his political disciplines (After reading Ron's post I just couldn't resist adding a little twist to Fairey's Hope poster)

Of online and offline and cancer

For those of you wondering why I haven't posted anything about our now year-long battle with cancer in the family, I just wanted to let you know that I'm not ignoring it or pretending it's not there: it's just not one of those things I feel the need to blog about.

In an age where so much of life is shared online it can feel disingenuous to withhold certain things, but I trust my dear readers will not feel such is the case with this.

We are thankful for the prayers and support those of you who know us have offered through these hard days and we will no doubt continue to keep you in the loop via other means.

And if you're ever wondering how I can be posting about "this or that" while our family is so hunkered down, the answer is that many of my blog posts are written and saved as drafts to be automatically posted at a later date...

Cheers,
James

Amazing Factory's "We Are the City" videos

Here's two stellar bits of cinematic and melodic awesomeness c/o We Are the City and Amazing Factory Productions

Seriously, how can you go wrong with tall trees and stars?

Plants-per-person to clean the air in your house

Apparently, this is the winning formula for the number of plants it'll take to give you "super-fresh-sparkle-clean" air in your very own house:

Chrysalidocarpus lutescen (4 shoulder-high plants per person)
Sansevieria trifasciata (6-8 waist-high plants per person)
Epipremnum aureum (filters a number of toxic air pollutants)

I just might have to re-arrange the furniture and see about bringing some of the old outdoors in over the winter...

c/o James Shelley

Here's to you Mrs. Robinson

If  you're reading this on Facebook or in your rss, you may need to check the actual blog for the video.

Stamps/Obey

These gorgeous stamps remind me of the great detail Shepard Fairey has been paying a lot of attention to in his own work lately.

c/o The Canadian Design Resoure +

Douglas Coupland's "Big Bang"

Hey Douglas Coupland: What time is it?