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Bent backwards a glimpse inside my hiding eyes ( Read more... )

I know this is short notice, but this Saturday is the Hike to Help Refugees. An 8.5 mile hike from North Liberty to Iowa City. Each hiker is to raise $80 - the amount of money it takes to buy a tent for refugee families in Afghanistan and Darfur. I'm raising money so if anyone feels like throwing down a couple bucks - it would far more than ( Read more... )

My brother, Daniel, is engaged and graduating from Grinnell. My yiddle boy. Not so yiddle anymore. Wow ( Read more... )

So... here's one of the classes I'm taking next fall ( Read more... )

for the first time in months my mind is quiet. calm. it is small and my movements are small. seemingly new yet i know they're old - a soft determination speaks from a former mind - a person i once knew & loved. the essay i read struck the deep chords like a cello in my body - the impermanence of life and the necessity of love and truth in the ( Read more... )

I will never forget the nights when the moon shone over the forests of Phuong Boi. Nighttime in the forest is not like nighttime in the city or even on a farm. At night, the sacred forest declares its absolute authority. The curtain of darkness is thick and secretive. Sitting in the study at Phuong Boi, I heard many eerie cries coming from the ( Read more... )

juliet.: asi es la vida

Tamara:): una mierda....

juliet.: amen.