#1- the night i met you

dessert recipe: grape salad

Here is a recipe my sister created for a sweet and delicious grape salad dessert. I made it for a work carry-in and everyone commented about how much they loved it!

Use different colored grapes for a colorful treat.

move/love

Check out this very clever tattoo by Steve Losh.

The birds represent 1’s. The spaces represent 0’s.

The arrangement of birds on the wires (with the flying bird) is:

01001101 01001111
01010110 01000101

Which means MOVE in binary (note for nerds: actually it translates to four numbers which represent those letters in the two most common text encodings [ASCII and UTF-8]).

If the flying bird flies away, it changes to:

01001100 01001111
01010110 01000101

Which translates to LOVE.

i'm ready to come home

jim + pam

The boat was actually Plan C. 

The church was Plan B.

And Plan A was marrying her a long, long time ago. 

Pretty much the day I met her.

-jim

insound fall mixtape

insound.com offers this free digital mixtape download for fall. so grab a pumpkin spice latte, zip up your hoodie, and enjoy the sounds. (hey, why not. it's free.)

01. Gold and Warm - Bad Veins
02. Don't Fear the Vagabonds - Dinosaur Feathers
03. Haze on the Mobius Strip - Dinowalrus
04. Chalk Lines - Division Day
05. Even Think - Drink Up Buttercup
06. Hands - The Dutchess and the Duke
07. Change of Heart - El Perro Del Mar
08. U Don't Like Rock N Roll - Hunx and his Punx
09. Vapors - Islands
10. Forgive Me - Le Loup
11. We F*** The Night - Lullabye Arkestra
12. Give Blood - Rain Machine
13. Last Dance - The Raveonettes

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come & live

the following write-up is from friendswithbotharms.com:

Chad Johnson is a man not satisfied to just listen to the music- he wants it to grow legs. He wants music to become a catalyst for real change. He risked it all to pursue this calling, and his faith is a testament to what potentials can be reached through a community of like-minded people. I met Chad through a mutual friend Graham- who has been working behind the Come & Live mission since it’s inception. Based out of Nashville, Chad spent nearly the passed decade working for the Christian music label- Tooth & Nail and felt called to start his own label that is run as a ministry- to foster artists as missionaries through their music. When that invitation to artists was sent out, they were met with an overwhelming response and interest was gaining momentum without even a running website to their name.

It took an extraordinary amount of courage and dedication to see the early stages of running a non-profit music label until things really began to take off. Under their manifesto they say, “If we believe that our lives and music define our mission, then we should be willing to share it all, not under any financial obligation, but plainly given away as a gift. It’s one of the smaller ways we know how to spell “love”. Our artists are missionaries, spreading the gospel and worshipping our Creator while giving all they have to love others. Therefore I command you, “You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor” – Deuteronomy 15:11

It is a beautiful principle built on love and compassion. Please follow them and get involved as this idea spreads and becomes a movement.

Made to Love from Come&Live! on Vimeo.

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I love everything about this. It's a great mission and I encourage you to read more about this company at their website and check out the artists on the label. They offer a free EP compilation download as well, which I've provided below.

01. Intro - There is a Light by the Frozen Ocean - John Piper
02. Awakening - Daniel Bashta
03. Sing - Ascend the Hill
04. Come Away - Ian McIntosh
05. Run to You - The Ember Days
06. The Stars Will Bleed Your Name - I Am Alpha and Omega
07. New Life - Great Awakening
08. Hills Humbled - So Long Forgotten
09. There You Are - Lovelite
10. Caution - Sons of God
11. Between Failure and Fraud - Holding Onto Hope
12. Ghosts - The Frozen Ocean
13. Revival - The Neverclaim
14. Then They Will Know - Preson Phillps
15. Open Hands - Fallstar
16. The Crown (Instrumental) - Everett

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Love.