So what’s new about our limited edition double-breasted suit?
Well, for starters we raised the armhole and and shortened the jacket for a more flattering fit. Then we gave it a super soft shoulder in blue (above) and pearl grey lightweight wools by Vitale Barberis Canonico to assure comfort in the warmer months. Topped off with rounder lapels and we’re ready to deem it a summer essential.
Call the SoHo flaghsip store to get yours before our limited stock is all sold out… (212) 404-6182
Excited to announce that we’re giving away over $680 worth of product this week to one randomly selected Tumblr follower. Additionally, if you re-blog this post you will receive an extra entry in the giveaway. The winner will receive a full look of S/S ‘12 product in the sizes of their choice featuring the new half-lined Washington with patch pockets in a wool/linen/silk blend.
Winner will be chosen this Friday at 5:00pm EST. Remember to re-blog for an extra entry!
"If good relationships are key to starting lifelong relationships, and friendships are my prerequisites for relationships, then we have to go back to the ingredients of good conversations: wit, humor, sensibility. It is the beautiful minds of this world that win over the beautiful faces. They win the hearts by winning minds, and when everything else fails( and we know that looks are often the first to go) you will be left with the gift of priceless conversations, which hold unbridled potential. Life will never be boring."
- Beautiful Minds by Anna Karina Samia, Young Blood on Philippine Daily Inquirer published 07 September 2010
Sep 7
In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said:
People ask me, What is the purpose of life?
And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were not made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven.
One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body— but not the end of me.
I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity..
We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn’t going to make sense.
Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you’re just coming out of one, or you’re getting ready to go into another one.
The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort; God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.
We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that’s not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness.
This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer.
I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don’t believe that anymore.
Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it’s kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life.
No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on.
And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.
You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems:
If you focus on your problems, you’re going into self-centeredness, which is my problem, my issues, my pain.’ But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others.
We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy for her- It has been very difficult for her, and yet God has strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people.
You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life.
Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy.
It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don’t think God gives you money or notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of ease. So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72.
First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit.. We made no major purchases.
Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church.
Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation.
Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free.
We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity?
Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God’s purposes (for my life)?
When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don’t get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better. God didn’t put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He’s more interested in what I am than what I do.
That’s why we’re called human beings, not human doings.
Jan 25
Incredible short interview with Rick Warren, ‘Purpose Driven Life ’ author
Jan 24
Fun times @ EK. Felt like a kid again, will go back again this year.
