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About Me

Lord make me an instrument of your peace; Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, light; And where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying (to ourselves) that we are born to eternal life. Layout Created at Mspremade.com I edited my profile at MsPremade.com . check out these Myspace Layouts!

My Interests

The wonderful world of advertising. Writing, film, theology, snowboarding, world travel, reckless adventure.

Music:

Check out "Good Monsters" by Jars of Clay. Great album. Always, always the Weepies.

Movies:

Favorites of the moment... The Namesake

Television:

Entourage for a little scene. The Office for aching ab laughs (unshunned). Grays Anatomy for my weekly smut fix. Ugly Betty for some Mark and Amanda love.

Books:

I've been reading five books for the past two months and have yet to finish one of them. This is a little unusual for me, but here goes the current list (aka, the albatross): Let Your Life Speak, Brand Hijack, Inspirability, The Culting of Brands, The Culturally Savvy Christian: A Manifesto on Deepening Faith and Enriching Pop-Culture. Favorites include: "Atlas Shrugged" (Ayn Rand), "Searching for God Knows What" (Donald Miller), "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" (Haruki Murakami), Freakanomics and Orbitting the Giant Hairball.

Heroes:

Dagny Taggart, Elizabeth Bennett, Joe March, Dwight Shroot, Carrie Bradshaw, Finnegan Bell (let's face it - fictional characters are just easier to admire), & anyone who loves their life.

My Blog

The thing about beauty.

One of the most beautifully written articles I've ever read. Not to mention a fascinating experiment and perhaps a scathing look at modern culture. But it raises some incredible questions...Do you hav...
Posted by Elizabeth Skyler on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:54:00 PST

Polarize Me

Thought this was interesting and wanted to share.An article in Fast Company that likens branding to online dating.And as I'm reading it, I wonder how many of these insights are relevant to the church....
Posted by Elizabeth Skyler on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:10:00 PST

Let Your Life Speak (by Parker Palmer)

Highly recommend this book. Check out some excerpts:"Let Your Life Speak," by Parker Palmer"Ask me where what I have done is my life." For some, those words will be nonsense, nothing more than a poet'...
Posted by Elizabeth Skyler on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:01:00 PST

The new Paste album

I just got the fabulous new PASTE album, and particularly enjoyed "Heather, remind me how this ends," by Dolorean. Read an interesting review of their album online. Granted, Doug would tell you that I...
Posted by Elizabeth Skyler on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:53:00 PST

whisper

i really, really, really want to go to thailand or india.i like to whisper their names instead of saying them out loud.their names contain the same mysterious and foreign power i felt when i whispered...
Posted by Elizabeth Skyler on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:26:00 PST

wasted

It's amazing how God gently reminds me of the things I claim to understand, but refuse to believe. I waste so much time wondering what the people around me think. Do they like me? Do they love me? Do ...
Posted by Elizabeth Skyler on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:44:00 PST

Relevant - Adopting Adoption

From a great article in Relevant. And the question to follow is, "why do we (culturally) see adoption as a last result for the infertile?" Why instead don't we (as followers of Christ) feel more compe...
Posted by Elizabeth Skyler on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:51:00 PST

scarred - to quote my future husband:-)

Deep thoughts from Doug last night... thoughts that have stayed with me all day today: "The problem is that the image of God is deeply scarred in each of us, and we lose trust in God's version of our ...
Posted by Elizabeth Skyler on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:27:00 PST

Thank you?

....so..... best way to start a morning ever. my fiance calls and says "you know the tv and media stand we registered for?.... the one we didn't expect anyone to buy us, but put on the list anyway?......
Posted by Elizabeth Skyler on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 06:05:00 PST

consumer culture

So I'm reading The Wal-Mart effect for work. Fascinating stuff. And this quote has had me wrestling all day. It's easy to blame the hungry giant. Harder to realize that it is our own need for "stuff" ...
Posted by Elizabeth Skyler on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:09:00 PST