2008

Doubt that Inspires…

by ak on December 15, 2008

…that helps belief in the possibility of the written word [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDvOC9D3V_I&hl=en&fs=1] …and conversation for change.

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blood and whip cream

by ak on December 14, 2008

that’s what covered my shirt, the walls, the floor, everything in a 5 foot radius of the cream whipper only moments after i dabbed the blade with my index finger to test if whip cream was ready for our belgians. the cream was ready, but the machine was not. my right hand, not knowing what [...]

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think on it

by ak on December 12, 2008

Now we need to understand that what simply occupies our mind very largely governs what we do. It sets the emotional tone out of which our actions flow and it projects the possible courses of action available to us. Also, the mind, though of little power on its own, is the place of our widest [...]

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Must Have More Sake!

by ak on December 11, 2008

my cousin dave and i have been chilling. sake has been a bond between us. so delicious.

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60 Years since "Never Again"

by ak on December 9, 2008

The following letter was released by the Save-Darfur coalition today: Dear reader, Sixty years ago today, the U.N. adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The nations of the world said “Never Again” in the wake of the Holocaust, pledging to stop genocide wherever and whenever it occurs. To [...]

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mac attacks

by ak on December 8, 2008

i’ve been on the phone for over an hour with the fine people at apple (76.5 minutes to be precise). my new macbook’s fan is constantly whirring and making noise.  and my battery lasts 2 hours max. i’ve had it less than 90 days.  this concerns me.  we’ve done every possible trick to make the [...]

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I learned this week that my planned excursion to S.E. Asia to work on a publication is postponed, at least until the summer months.  There are some scheduling conflicts on the ground in Malaysia that make it nearly impossible to pull the publication off in the upcoming months.  I’m disappointed.   However, I’m not discouraged. [...]

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Gilead and Home, by Marilynne Robinson

by ak on December 3, 2008

What greater gift can a writer give a reader than another book?  I don’t know that I’ve ever been so affected by a work of fiction.  You know that feeling when you don’t want to turn the last page of a book you love.   You can imagine my happiness, then, when I turned the [...]

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