My biggest fear is compromising too much, quitting, settling, taking the path laid out before me. It’s what everyone does, what they have to do. But no one has to do anything. Our default answer to “What next?” is chose from the choices we are given, compromise our ideals for our possibilities. It’s our default [...]
On the long holiday drives between my parents home and my own I had an idea that I can’t shake. Governments pour billions into bus systems, and train lines, all to transform our car-culture into a community transportation culture. They have done the math and know the advantages to our infrastructure, economy, and environment that reducing car use [...]
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I freedove 70 feet down but busted some blood vessels in my eyes. Now I look creepy.
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Tonight I ran across a interesting religious debate that is occuring in Islam. A major tennant of Islam is to pray towards Mecca 5 times a day. Which starts as a relatively simple commandment.
But tonight while talking to a sufi he enunciated a schism that seperates two sects only by degrees but goes [...]
I don’t go to many concerts but when the Avett Brothers made it this far south I bought a lone ticket. Maybe I’m just a concert virgin but there was a palpable feeling of community in the small theater.
We had a hackle raising set of knee slapping and swinging, clapping and screaming. All the [...]
As we grow up we put aside our childish things. Today I traded my 5 year old cell phone for the ubiquitous iPhone. With this change expect to hear more from me as I post ideas from the road. We will see if the bottleneck is in time or time with a computer.
A quick but strong photo essay about ongoing wars.
The RSS feed of Time’s photo essays is worth subscribing to. But they need to update their page design so that it doesn’t refresh the page with each new image.
Know who you will call when you get to Israel. Have phone numbers of family and friends and at least 20 shekels Israeli money to make a phone call.
1) “Hotline for Migrant Workers” http://www.hotline.org.il/english/index.htm
75 Nahalat Binyamin Street / Tel Aviv, 65154, Israel / Tel. 972.3.560-2530
2) Elisheva, an organization for the support of refugees org: 050-7519558
3) [...]