I have recently been called upon to plan all sorts of random church events. And what do random church events require? Random church flyers (oh, the never-ending charms of lay ministry). As such, I have had to use Photoshop A LOT. It seems I have a natural eye for design and layout but BOY HOWDY am I lacking in technical skill. As a teenager, I taught myself Photoshop so I could resize photos and add text (with shadows!) and... well... that's about it. Brian has taught me a bit more, but DUDE. It takes me ninety years to create the simplest thing. Here are a few of my creations.

I met Margaret Atwood before a screening of The Handmaid's Tale at the Brattle Theatre. She taught me about taking time for people... there a ton of people around and it was like I was the only person in the room. A few of her comments that I immediately wrote down: 

"everyone has a religion, whether they admit to it or not""...and it doesn't even matter if it's true. That's not really what it's about."

"I was always waiting for religion to make a comeback and oh! Here it is."

Two book recommendations: God, a Biography and Evolution of God

"Two camps of humans and the earth: there's the people who think they have DOMINION over the earth and everything that is here is theirs ... AND then there's the people of Adam, that we're the STEWARDS of the Earth and it is our job to take care of it" (I imagine this is her camp.)