I wish I could count the number of times people have asked me in the last three days, “so, what’d you do today?” It feels to guilty describing it. Even though I’ve done the Vacation Bible School photos, I’ve attended a Lectionary group of pastors, and even reinvigorated and created friendships, I still feel guilty about it:
Most of my time this week was sucked away by the computer. I’ve been updating the FTE 2007 section of my website. As a great friend said about updating one’s own blog: “it just feels so narcissistic.” And in a sense, it is narcissistic!
I’ve added some key functionality to my site. I can now embed my photo galleries directly from Picasa’s Web Albums instead of unnecessarily uploading the individual pictures to my server first. I love Web 2.0 … the necessary simplicity is JUST PLAIN COOL! I’ve also setup my Podcast, so that once I capture some audio (for sure there’ll be some in the next two days just introducing my project) — once I capture some audio individuals’ iTunes will automatically download them!
Now that I’ve setup the framework for delivering my summer content, I’m ready to start distributing … once I discover the content. Here’s a preview of one of my most-recent discoveries:
Mickey Anders is an incredibly intuitive pastor. He’s self-motivated, and for some reason, he’s able to see through personalities and find creative ways to enable people. Take me, for instance. Mickey through the week has seen what South Elkhorn CC projects I’ve ‘tabled’ or inadvertantly neglected. I didn’t think he’d noticed, but he has; however, Mickey doesn’t continually harass me about them … he notices the projects I finish quickly and comes up with more projects within those areas. (I need to admit at this point that I REALLY do want to do most of them — I just keep forgetting …) Today Mickey shocked me by asking me to come up with Sunday bulletin covers for the next six Sundays and then to show him resources for when I’m gone. I LOVE IT. He showed me some prior material from his laptop and gave examples of what he didn’t like. It’s creative busy-work … but it’s also teaching me a ton. He’s probably not explicit about how he uses his method of latching onto the enthusiasm and prodding that enthusiasm — but he does it … and it works. This trait is something you can’t teach; even still – Mickey’s a great model of it.
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