I started my accessibility journey on this day at the University of Kansas. A hands on lesson for architecture students as we have to navigate around campus in a wheelchair. That experience still is fresh on my mind when I think about making inclusive products.

Today in Web development history. The responsive design of The Boston Globe launched in 2011. It was the first major site to use RWD and was a showcase of the techniques

I heard Ethan Marcotte share about the design a couple of months earlier at the Front-End Design Conference in St. Pete. Front end development by Filament Group + Ethan.

https://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/introducing-the-new-responsive-designed-bostonglobecom

This is a piece of a table that was in the prop shop where my daughter works. They built a new one, and she wanted a piece of the old one because she likes the textures. I also like it. It was reminiscent of the background of Hall and Oates Big Bam Boom album. Similar colors and vibe.

Enjoyed the twilight on my walk tonight.

I’m supporting my kids this week as they start back to school. First up is my youngest who started classes at Chatt State today. Next up was my son, who started classes on Tuesday at Murray State. He is a senior studying graphic design. And finally, my oldest daughter. She is a Trevecca grad. She works for Trevecca as a student success advisor. She will start graduate school at Trevecca later this fall. She gave me this shirt when I saw her recently.

This highlight came up on Sunday in my Readwise feed. I prayed through it this morning. I needed to read this truth yesterday and into today as I face life’s current challenges.

My dad told me a story last night how my Mom liked Butterrum Lifesavers, and she could get them in a roll at Crackerbarrel. I bought several bags of Wild Cherry Lifesavers a couple of weeks ago at Crackerbarrel. I will now look for the rolls of Butterrum every time I stop at a Crackerbarrel and think of my mom.

Trying to be artsy. My son got a Mac tower from the agency he interned with this summer. It reminds me of a cheese grater so I decided to take a picture of both.

“We need to be reminded again and again that spiritual maturity is not about the assurance of personal strength; it is about being joyfully willing to admit weakness, because of the constant renewing work of God’s grace in our lives. We should not fear the weakness that drives us into our Lord’s hands. What we should fear are the delusions of strength that tempt us to live independently.”

-Paul David Tripp, Sunday Matters

This came up in Readwise review today. I need this reminder that maturity does not equip me for the next challenge.

A zinnia from the casket spray from my mother-in-law’s funeral on Saturday. She had zinnias in her yard in Little Rock. We had a blessed time remembering her with family on Saturday.

My wife had requested zinnias but the florist did not have any. But she was able to get them from someone else and they were a part of the spray. This flower, with its combination of red and yellow, would have been a favorite of mother-in-laws. It immediately caught my wife’s eye. Later that afternoon, she took it from the arrangement at the gravesite and brought it home.

I saw beautiful cloud formation all day while driving through Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas. I captured this one in Crossett, Arkansas.

I thought about our house guest from last week. She attended the game in Cincinnati and I know she is afraid of lightning.