Some of these are closer than others. If you have any questions (or corrections), please let me know.

Anybody have “Does Your Heart Break?”

• breathe
• christ be with me
• christmastide
• hands and feet
• hands and feet (capo 1)
• have you forsaken me
• mercy
• mother of god
• open up
• our god alone
• our god alone (capo 2)
• the sun will rise
• wounded healer

I’ve charted quite a few of their songs, and since I’m doing Open Up tomorrow I thought I’d get it uploaded to share. It is neither exact nor perfect, so if you have any questions or corrections, let me know.

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atrophy

The other day Guy Sigsworth asked on Twitter about beautiful engineering accidents, and I referenced this track. For some of the ‘breaking apart’ toward the end, I took an empty mixer channel and sent its ‘signal’ to a digital delay. The delay was routed back into its own mixer channel, which I fed back to the delay. This (obviously) created a delayed feedback loop that I could tune by adjusting the send knobs on each channel.

Man, gotta get back to the studio…

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So I’m recovering from a little outpatient surgery and Christine picks me up a copy of Men’s Health to flip through, and I see an ad for a new line of Paul Mitchell products geared toward men: Mitch.

In the ad, I see the product shown above. And yes, by “product” I mean both an item that a company sells as well as something you put in your hair to achieve a particular style.

So, as a self-proclaimed (as well as accused) quasi-metrosexual Lutheran worship leader, what’s a guy got to do to get a product endorsement? I mean, seriously.

Get it? Because Martin Luther was the O.G. reformer? And I’m a Lutheran? And I use product in my hair?

OK, back to work.

The Twitter equivalent of this is when you follow, say, designers, Christian leaders, beer aficionados, and all those things culminate in people who meet all of those criteria.

That happened a few months ago when I stumbled upon @Jim_LePage. If I recall, it was via @abduzeedo. He’s a designer who is a Christian who appreciates fine craft beer. One day, I hope to sit down with him over a couple and discuss craft (design and beer) and faith.

LePage has been doing a cool long-term project called Word Bible Designs. He has been reading through the bible and then designing posters for each book . He is almost done with the project and is giving away three prints over the next few weeks.

You can enter to win by following the directions on his blog.

I love that. It is full of action and love and devotion. I am reminded of the woman of ill repute who wet Jesus’ feet with her tears, drying them with her hair, kissing his feet and anointing them with expensive perfume. From the moment he entered the room, she hadn’t stopped “kissing toward” him.

This morning, I woke up with someone’s water bottle in the small of my back. Bella is normally an early riser; even though our clocks fell back an hour, her waking is still ahead an hour. So she had popped into our bed around 5 or so. Christine was already up and exercising (which I need to get myself doing), and Bella had fallen back asleep.

So back to waking with Bella’s water bottle in my back. I tried to softly dig it out, trying not to wake her, when she wraps her arm around me and kisses my shoulder. Kisses my cheek. Kisses my neck.

Just these soft, little kisses. Each one saying “I love you, Daddy.”

Unprovoked.

I didn’t say “If you love me, Bella, you’ll ‘kiss toward’ me.” This was an outpouring of love on her own. She was kissing me because she loved me. Because she knows how much I love her.

“Those are sweet kisses,” I said.

“I love you, Daddy,” she replied.

And I imagined, with only a glimmer, what God must feel when we “kiss toward” him as an outpouring of our love and devotion for him.

I love you, Daddy.

One of the reasons I finally got this up is the encouragement I got at the GLOR10US Seminars for Worship conference to get some of my thoughts up and in the ether. I have felt for a while that I may have some things worth saying bouncing around (you can beg to differ—hey, that’s what the comments are for, right?).

So, here it is. Totally basic design to start. I’ll flesh that out as I go along. Content is king, anyway! I’ll be writing about media. About design. About worship, God, faith. About life.

Things that don’t necessarily fit in 140 characters.