The Monday brief

December 1st, 2008 | Comments (1) | Trackbacks (0) |

Highlight of the week: I spent the better part of Saturday afternoon making a video with a couple of my high school students. We shot scenes in Valley West Mall, Barnes & Noble, Border’s, and back at church. I have it done — for the most part — but it’s not uploaded anywhere yet. It was a pretty fun time working on it, and I had a good time discovering all of the free music bundled with iMovie. Oh, and this was pretty funny, too.

Book(s) I’m reading: I put Downtown Owl on hold last week and read Malcom Gladwell’s new book, Outliers: The Story of Success. I love all of Gladwell’s stuff, and I found this book to be particularly engrossing — it was essentially Freakonomics-style thinking applied to our notions of how one becomes successful. Highly recommended,

Music I’m digging: I’ve been enjoying Copia (link opens in iTunes) by Eluvium this past week, based on John’s suggestion. Aside from a couple of beautiful solo piano tracks, Copia is rich ambient goodness.

Something(s) that blew my mind: Outliers.

Ministry update: Nothing new, really.

Seminary/ordination update: I’m currently maintaining a holding pattern regarding seminary and ordination.

Looking forward to: Planning and researching a potential vacation…

That’s it for the Monday brief. Feel free to leave a comment, and if you’re feeling extra frisky, check out the Monday brief archives.