Drawer Geeks Jr.

So I've officially missed a WHOLE month of blogging (October 2008), not even keeping up with my meager 3-a-month average. It stinks too, 'cause I feel like I have a lot to write about. I hope to make more regular writing a part of some changes to my routine that will bring some more balance to my life. I help with a lot of events in the ministry, and while I find great joy in doing those things, engaging in the creative is something molded into us by the finger of the Creator God, and I think if we don't take time for it we'll be less peaceful and more stressed.

In keeping with that sentiment, then, I've recently become part of a little community of artists (all of them more worthy to bear that title than I) mostly from Huntington University, a Christian liberal arts school my sister Colleen attends in Indiana. She asked me and my brother Christopher, who lives in Knoxville, TN to be part of it as well, and there may be others in it who aren't at Huntington. They call it Drawer Geeks Jr., apparently as an unofficial shoot-off from 'the real' Drawer Geeks. We have a theme every couple weeks, and that's basically all the structure there is to it. Yesterday I turned in my first effort for the theme WITCH. Here it is (I created it in a free program called Seashore):I'm really a fan of artistic collaboration. I've done it with half a dozen people in songwriting, and even being a small part of a community like Drawer Geeks Jr. really helps sharpen your own skill and to see all the infinite directions a creative mind can stylistically take. Plus it's just fun to do something like this for the heck of it, not for any grade or specific evaluation! I've added a link to the blog where my sister posts everyone's creations; check it out, there's some amazing stuff there.