Leo had it right.

"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."


"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields." 


"What I think about vivisection is that if people admit they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty." 


– Leo Tolstoy


Earthlings (Full Documentary)

"You got so much to do, and only so many hours in a day..."

Today, I awoke at 3:40 a.m. to meet my integrated design classmates so we could go to Atlanta. It was a dawn of anxiety and determination, for my design team and I were to present our Minor League Baseball team to designers of SkyDesign in Atlanta. The project has been in progress for about six weeks now, and the journey has been a stressful, fun, educational, and inspiring one. The other seven teams in my class presented their projects as well, which included three restaurants, two cities, a bank, and another MiLB team. Every presentation was incredible. I just have to say how impressed I am with the work we all did over the semester. The designers from SD were very impressed as well. They told us that we all exhibited professional grade work, and they would be proud to present our work to actual clients if they so existed. I'm pretty proud of what my classmates and I accomplished, and I'm definitely looking forward to updating my portfolio with all the great design. I feel like the integrated class has added so much to my knowledge of industrial design and architecture, which will give me an edge over many of my colleagues. I am sad that the class had to end, though, and the graphic designers and industrial designers will go our separate ways once again. Thank you, fellow integrates, for making this class so awesome. I look forward to working with you guys again in the near future. :)

Something to think about.

I read this in Donald Miller's blog, and it was very a interesting thought.


"I’ve also found that the more I trust in Christ’s redemption to be sufficient, the less overtly religious I am. And, quite honestly, the more suspect overtly religious people become to me. When I’m with somebody who talks zealously about faith, about Jesus, about the Bible, after a while, I find myself wondering whether or not their faith is strong at all. For instance, if I were with somebody who kept talking about how much they loved their wife, going on loudly and profusely, intuitively I would wonder whether or not they were struggling in their marriage. I would wonder whether they were trying to convince me they loved their wife, or if they were just trying to convince themselves. Faith in Christ, for me, is similar. It’s intimate and private. I’m not comfortable giving loud prayers. I’m more comfortable giving quiet prayers, intimate prayers. Often alone, in fact. Of course there is a time for proclamations, but that’s the key, isn’t it? There’s a time. I love that the New Testament is mostly intimate letters written to small groups of people who met in homes. I like the quiet authenticity of our faith. Robertson’s loudness and shock-jock verbiage seems strange and oddly uncompassionate. It felt like he was trying to tell us how tough he was, not how compassionate God is."