We’re all packed and ready for the big show.
I’m anxious about how to display all the builds, but excited to set it up and help with other presentations.
31 Days of Lego: Complete!
Delaware Fun-A-Day Preparations
We spent a few hours cutting stickers for the Delaware Fun-A-Day show opening this Friday.
Kristen’s designs are fun, inventive, and full of heart.
Next, I’ll be volunteering to help mount the artists’ work and figuring out how to display our 31 Lego sculptures.
A Little Lego Therapy
We’ve had some challenges lately and it was good to have friends over to build with us.
31 Days of Lego: Stephano, Trinculo, and Caliban
In this scene from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Stephano, Trinculo, and Caliban sneak towards a murderous plot. The first two drunken fools are distracted by a clotheline of fancy articles while Caliban loses his patience and rages against them.
We recently saw Delaware Shakespeare‘s production of The Tempest and I was inspired to recreate this scene.
31 Days of Lego: Little House
Masks Still Don’t Work
I was interested in the effectiveness of masks before Covid madness settled into American culture. During six days in the hospital with my wife I learned that there was little enforcement or consistency with mask policy, even in the ICU with a respiratory infection.
I didn’t dive deep at the time, but I was surprised to read that masks were largely regarded as useless outside a surgical setting, according to decades of studies.
In 2020, I revisited those studies with a closer, and less emotional, eye. I hadn’t fooled myself, masks created more of a sense of security than actual health or safety. I don’t know why doctors and nurses ignore this, or perpetuate the farce. I don’t really know why Dr. Fauci told the world that masks were ineffective, then told the world they were. I was lying then, but I’m telling the truth now? Sounds like classic toxic male.
Unregistered with Thaddeus Russell: Ian Miller
Ian Miller is data obsessed and has been publishing official government statistics in chart form since near the beginning of the Lockdown.
In this conversation with Thaddeus Russell, Miller shares how he became the go-to source for seekers of Covid data truth. Over and over again his charts showed that mask mandates had no measurable effect on health outcomes anywhere.
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Unmasked: The Global Failure of COVID Mask Mandates
I’m seeing more people in masks again. It is important that we reach as many as who will listen about the lies that have been peddled about mask effectiveness.
This conversation and this book are great weapons of truth. Please take time to listen, read, and share. There will be another attempt by government offcials to deny citizens their rights of travel, speech, and assembly. We must be armed with the truth and be ready to speak it. We must defy the lies by acting against their mandates.
365 Devotionals: Service
He got up from the table, took off his robe, wrapped a towel around his waist, and poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he had around him.
-John 13:4-5
I don’t have a lot of words to share about Jesus washing the feet of his students. It is one of those examples that I struggle to follow. I love to serve others, but am I always doing it in the name of the Lord?
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365 Devotionals: Learn Out Loud
When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for Israel.
-Judges 2:10 NKJV
Home education and fatherhood center around modeling. As I learn, my sons not only learn, but are shown how to learn.
My faith is grown through learning. Not only by studying the Word, but by praying openly for wisdom and guidance.
I don’t know how my boys will grow in their beliefs. That isn’t up to me. All I can do is be honest and outspoken in my faith journey.
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31 Days of Lego: Sea Turtle
Tom Alphin‘s The Lego Architect deserves most of the credit for this build. I started with his design for a neoclassical dome and thought I would modify it into a turtle shell.
As I pieced it together, I fell in love with the textures and shape. I was also pleased with how I could play with colors to create more visual depth.
I’m hoping to take what I learned from Alphin to work on my own dome design.
Although conceived as a land turtle, when I found these “flippers,” I couldn’t resist.
A salmon and orange underbelly finishes it off and brings in the brightness I initially planned to highlight the shell.
365 Devotionals: Vigilance
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
– 1 Peter 5:8 NKJV
When I was attending Alcoholics Anonymous there was a guy who said that the devil wasn’t on his back, he was outside doing push ups, getting ready while we sat around getting fat and lazy in our sobriety.
That stuck with me. I don’t live with a devil on my back and I’m not getting fat and lazy in my sobeiety. That’s in no small part to the knowledge that the devils are always getting stronger.