Ten envelopes, each containing a piece of charcoal
are sent to ten people and instructed to send the envelope back upon receipt.
Each step of the journey is recorded, the result shows a duration, a distance.
Ten envelopes were sent, four were returned,
ten pins are on the wall, four are used.
The other six are still waiting.This post is by Andrew Harlow as part of Photojojo’s Show & Tell week.
OBSESSED. so awesome. the VES concentrator in me is feasting.
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Made this chart after speaking with a girlfriend on the phone yesterday. I think girls tend to 1-up each other in pitch while talking in order to convey enthusiasm. Especially at the end, when it just becomes “Bye!” “BYEE!!” “OKKK BBBBBBYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!” in paradoxically shrill yet breathy tones…
Males on the other hand, do not display such tendencies, and greetings and farewells are generally a rather unenthusiastic affair.
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Edit: May 16, 2011 8:57 PM
Now includes “Males talking to girlfriends,” as per a request ;)
I am the proud creator of this (evidently popular) flowchart on my favorite tumblr, ILoveCharts :D
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Choosing “The One” - a perspective shift
I’ve been thinking a lot about a specific Sunday School topic my church, Boston Chinese Evangelical Church (BCEC), covered a while ago about God’s will in the context of choosing “The One” for marriage. While I was cleaning out a purse today, what should I find but the exact handout from that session…..it was meant to be, I guess :)
For the non-religious folk who may be reading this, I think that the main point below is still extremely relevant/applicable, and I encourage you to reflect on it. Here’s a snippet from that session handout I’ve been meditating on.
Our motives are self evident in our prayer life. We pray for leading and the type of person we want to marry. However, often we do not pray for ourselves to grow and mature into the husband or wife God desires us to be.
“Finally, pray less that God would show you who is the right husband or wife and pray more to be the right kind of husband or wife. If everyone was praying to be the right spouse, it wouldn’t matter nearly so much who is the ‘right’ spouse. Dump your list of the seventeen things you need in a wife and make yourself a list of seventeen things you need to be as a husband.” (DeYoung, Just Do Something 106)
This is my sincere prayer, that I would embrace humility, patience, and discipline, and trust that God will lead my perfect guy to me. Farewell angst, welcome serenity. And may grace overflow, for willpower fails on its own.
I can’t help but tie in this neat graphic as well: Luck = Preparation x Opportunity. I prepare myself, God provides opportunity, and providence unfolds.
Finally, I think DeYoung’s teaching may be in danger of being labeled idealistic, backwards, or boring…that it sucks all the life and fun out of romance. I submit that at the core, the end goal is not just to find a significant other. It’s to experience deep personal growth, to mature, and to be a better person in a holistic sense. I don’t think we’re called to all put on blinders and live as hermits until some auspicious day when strangers may miraculously/accidentally bump into love. What I do feel compelled by is this passage’s urging us to be still and conscientious, optimistic and exemplary.
Preparation, Opportunity, Providence.
If you’re interested, here’s the audio podcast from that Sunday School class, and here’s the PDF handout from which I got the above excerpt.
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