Big Dreams... in action!

That's my buddy Joe's, (aka Aloha Joe), Pumpkin Patch. Stopped by to visit on my way down for Jackets for Jesus, our work with the homeless on skidrow. Joe's a dreamer who's put his dreams in action. He left a job he was unhappy with to start his own business with party jumpers and he's now parlayed that business into his first pumpkin patch- using all his jumpers- and a Christmas Tree lot in the same place once the pumpkin's are gone.

He's deeply invested. He's giving it his all. He's having a blast. Joe's a people person- thrives on being in a crowd- watching his pumpkin patch sprout and grow has definitely been a highlight of this month for me. I drive by, scan the lot, look for his face or maybe the face of one of his family, stop in when it looks like they're not too busy and drive by smiling when the place is packed. Pretty cool.

Might sound like a simple dream- sell some pumpkins, give a family a safe place to hang out and have fun together in the middle of what's become a pretty scary holiday, hopefully end up a success at the end of the day... by my measurement he's already there... he's doing it, living his dream.

Hope you're living yours today. I'm heading down to skid row to live out part of the dream God's given me. There's something for everyone. God's good.

blessings,

Eric

Great Job... if you can hack it

Many of you have read about the kid from New Jersey, where else?, who "cracked" the iphone code this week. Read this article in Newsweek and thought his future plans were perfect for a 17 year old... hey... there are some days they don't sound bad to me... if my waist line could handle it.

blessings,

Eric

from today's Newsweek

"Hotz, the whiz-kid behind the hardware hack, isn't concerned about his legal standing. He's not offering his services up for sale and the steps required to unlock an iPhone are sufficiently complicated. ("Who's going to use this?" he asks. "Very few people.") In fact, the only people who have called him so far are journalists, "a venture capitalist and a guy who works at Qualcomm offering me a summer internship," he says. But Hotz, who ships off to New York for his freshman year at the Rochester Institute of Technology this very afternoon, has other ideas. "I want to intern at Google next summer if I can. I've got a friend there and he's, like, 'Dude, they have a cafeteria 24/7. You can go in there and eat whatever you want. You can go to sleep, hack for a couple of hours and go eat some more'." Who said kids today don't dream big?"