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photo credit :: Skinny Ricky

Sweet Nectar

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A Great "Amen"

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everything is illuminated (part one)

Nikon vs Canon

A little inappropriate, but a lot awesome.

I want to go back.

Dear Man in the Red Cravat,

You are my hero.

Love,
Casey


Photo from The Sartorialist

Brittany

Hair cut, color and styling by Dalene at Trendz in Livermore.

Stephanie

Hair cut, color and styling by Dalene at Trendz in Livermore.

Kelly in San Francisco

The Linney Family

Joey & Carisa part deux

Joey & Carisa

I am still working on the photos of their special day, but here is a preview!

Testing my new camera
app on Stella...




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The end of an era

I'll miss the love and sparkles... But I guess I can make them myself now.

Jim Cork Burning

Dreamers of the golden dream

Sailing on forbidden seas

Words are so uninteresting

Don’t kiss me; it will trigger things

The conversations we replay

To catch the hints in what we say

The houses we find ourselves in

The games that end when we begin to live

I swear I’m getting out of here

Oh someone drag me out of here

Servant to the matriarch

Sleeping in a burning car

Lovers of the lovable

Respond to the incredible

Blood is thick with medicine

And I am chasing smoke again

Humming some new mystery

Alive inside the history of us

I swear I’m getting out of here

Oh someone drag me out of here

Create in me a grateful heart

Forge it out of twine and tar

Take the dark unusable

And make it something beautiful

And make me something beautiful

And make me something beautiful

And make me something beautiful

And make me something beautiful

A song by Derek Walker. Listen to it on Sky Fidelity.

...it's tough being a girl

Love and Sparkles

Let's try this again.

This is the sweet headband that I made. It took about 5 minutes and cost a grand total of about $2.36 and it gets quite a few comments from Peet's customers. I think it was well worth the investment.

Life planning with Dalene at Ale House. Love.

The Vision

Summer 2001, Ensenada, Mexico with the church youth group- it was our first night there. A guy came on stage and shared 'The Vision'. He said it came out of YWAM London, but no one really knew much about it. (Several years later I learned it was written by Pete Grieg from 24/7 Prayer International.) I think it is safe to say that moment changed my life. The words on that crumpled up piece of paper with the MSN logo at the top seared my brain and my heart. It made my palms sweat and my eyes water. At that moment I wanted to leap from my chair and sing, and shout... and yell... and get a tattoo. From that moment on I was different.

But then I stopped being different. I'm not sure when. Maybe around the time I turned 20 or 21. But I am ready to be different again. It's time.

So here it is. Soak it in. Print it out. Read it again. The Vision.

So this guy comes up to me and says, “What’s the vision? What’s the big idea?”

I open my mouth and words come out like this:

The vision? The vision is Jesus – obsessively, dangerously, undeniably Jesus.

The vision is an army of young people. You see bones? I see an army.

And they are free from materialism.

They laugh at 9-5 little prisons. They could eat caviar on Monday and crusts on Tuesday. They wouldn’t even notice.

They know the meaning of the Matrix, the way the west was won. They are mobile like the wind, they belong to the nations. They need no passport. People write their addresses in pencil and wonder at their strange existence. They are free yet they are slaves of the hurting and dirty and dying.

What is the vision ?

The vision is holiness that hurts the eyes. It makes children laugh and adults angry. It gave up the game of minimum integrity long ago to reach for the stars. It scorns the good and strains for the best. It is dangerously pure.

Light flickers from every secret motive, every private conversation. It loves people away from their suicide leaps, their Satan games. This is an army that will lay down its life for the cause. A million times a day its soldiers choose to loose, that they might one day win the great ‘Well done’ of faithful sons and daughters.

Such heroes are as radical on Monday morning as Sunday night. They don’t need fame from names. Instead they grin quietly upwards and hear the crowds chanting again and again: “COME ON!”

And this is the sound of the underground, the whisper of history in the making. Foundations shaking. Revolutionaries dreaming once again. Mystery is scheming in whispers. Conspiracy is breathing…

This is the sound of the underground.

And the army is disciplined. Young people who beat their bodies into submission. Every soldier would take a bullet for his comrade at arms. The tattoo on their back boasts “for me to live is Christ and to die is gain”.

Sacrifice fuels the fire of victory in their upward eyes. Winners. Martyrs. Who can stop them ? Can hormones hold them back? Can failure succeed? Can fear scare them or death kill them?

And the generation prays

like a dying man

with groans beyond talking,

with warrior cries, sulphuric tears and

with great barrow loads of laughter!

Waiting. Watching. 24/7/365.

Whatever it takes they will give: Breaking the rules. Shaking mediocrity from its cosy little hide. Laying down their rights and their precious little wrongs, laughing at labels, fasting essentials. The advertisers cannot mould them. Hollywood cannot hold them. Peer-pressure is powerless to shake their resolve at late night parties before the cockerel cries.

They are incredibly cool, dangerously attractive. Inside.

On the outside? They hardly care. They wear clothes like costumes to communicate and celebrate but never to hide. Would they surrender their image or their popularity? They would lay down their very lives - swap seats with the man on death row - guilty as hell. A throne for an electric chair.

With blood and sweat and many tears, with sleepless nights and fruitless days, they pray as if it all depends on God and live as if it all depends on them.

Their DNA chooses JESUS. (He breathes out, they breathe in.)

Their subconscious sings. They had a blood transfusion with Jesus.

Their words make demons scream in shopping centres.

Don’t you hear them coming?

Herald the weirdo’s! Summon the losers and the freaks. Here come the frightened and forgotten with fire in their eyes. They walk tall and trees applaud, skyscrapers bow, mountains are dwarfed by these children of another dimension. Their prayers summon the hounds of heaven and invoke the ancient dream of Eden.

And this vision will be.

It will come to pass;

it will come easily;

it will come soon.

How do I know?

Because this is the longing of creation itself, the groaning of the Spirit, the very dream of God.

My tomorrow is his today. My distant hope is his 3D. And my feeble, whispered, faithless prayer invokes a thunderous, resounding, bone-shaking great ‘Amen!’ from countless angels, from hero’s of the faith, from Christ himself. And he is the original dreamer, the ultimate winner.

Guaranteed.