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Archive for July, 2009
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Faiths Act Fellows Training – Day 1
Posted on July 31, 2009 | View CommentsThe Faiths Act Fellows met for our first day of training this morning. We’ve spent the last three months getting to know each others’ bios and pictures, discussing the Fellowship over conference calls, and in some cases, chit-chatting through Facebook. It was the first time that all thirty of us were in the same room. And something amazing happened – it was like we had all known each other for ages.
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Rosetta Stone
Posted on July 30, 2009 | View CommentsThere it is. When I was a kid, I learned that Jean-François Champollion was the name of the French scholar who had decoded the stone. From that point on, I imagined myself as a young Champollion, someday traveling to the sands of a far-away place and digging up some language fragment that I would then decode for world-altering wisdom.
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Landing in London
Posted on July 29, 2009 | View CommentsMy plane from Denver took off about three hours late due to mechanical failures, general delays, and harsh rains – pretty much the three main reasons (not counting geese) that can screw up air travel. That being said, I also screwed up my seat assignment by not checking in early. They settled me in the geographical center of coach. Two people on each side of me.
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My thanks to The 1010 Project
Posted on July 25, 2009 | View CommentsDisclaimer: This post is selfish. It’s about the work I did with The 1010 Project from June 2008 to July 2009. More than that, it’s about the people that made that work beautiful. If you don’t want to hear about them, head to the next post. They are an inspiring bunch. This is something that I have to do.
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Interfaith Youth Core and Tony Blair Faith Foundation
Posted on July 23, 2009 | View Comments
Someday, we won't need these.
Well, it’s come down to it. I leave next Tuesday for six weeks of training for my new job (my first day is October 1st) and I couldn’t be more excited. A bit of background:
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Graduate student to unite faiths, tackle societal ills – from DU Today
Posted on July 20, 2009 | View CommentsThis article originally appeared on the University of Denver’s DU Today site.
Graduate student to unite faiths, tackle societal ills
June 02, 2009
Tim Brauhn, who graduates from DU on June 5, will begin training for an eight-month-long fellowship, running from October to May, with the Tony Blair Foundation and Interfaith Youth Core.
While Tim Brauhn’s memories of Sunday school have become a bit hazy over the years, the 25-year-old graduate student from Franklin Grove, Ill., clearly remembers the Biblical parables that emphasized love-thy-neighbor morals.
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Kenya Series – The Myth of Western Superiority
Posted on July 15, 2009 | View CommentsI’ve been with The 1010 Project for a little over a year. At the same time, I was working my way through graduate school at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. At the office, I learned about humanitarian work by doing, and through discussions with those who had been with the organization for some time. At school, I learned about international development by reading and listening to others who had been in the field for years. Some of my teachers in both settings were from America, some from Africa, and some from other parts of the world.
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Kenya Series – Water
Posted on July 15, 2009 | View Comments
2300 liters of awesome
Water is life. I’ve known this for some time. I’ve also been nursing a water addiction for about a decade. I love the stuff like a fish loves…water. I need it, I crave it at almost all times, and I drink many, many liters each day. I knew that traveling in Kenya would be difficult for my water intake. We’d be at the same altitude as Denver, so I would have to keep my levels high, but the groundwater was considered off-limits due to unfamiliar flora and bacteria. To avoid becoming a macho-man and still getting sick, I decided to bring along some iodine tablets. While other team members were scrounging for half-full bottles from the previous day’s adventure, I would calmly fill my Kleen Kanteen from the tap and drop in my tabs. I did share them, by the way.
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Today’s [Poetry Chaikhana] Rabia Rabi’a Al-’Adawiyya – I carry a torch in one hand
Posted on July 15, 2009 | View CommentsThis one came into my inbox this morning through Poetry Chaikhana:
I carry a torch in one hand
By Rabia (Rabi’a Al-’Adawiyya)
(717 – 801)English version by Charles Upton
I carry a torch in one hand
And a bucket of water in the other:
With these things I am going to set fire to Heaven
And put out the flames of Hell
So that voyagers to God can rip the veils
And see the real goal.Read more on Today’s [Poetry Chaikhana] Rabia Rabi’a Al-’Adawiyya – I carry a torch in one hand…
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Giardiasis
Posted on July 14, 2009 | View Comments
My guts are full of these little monsters.
So I’ve been feeling a little fluxy in the stomach since returning from Kenya. I finally got the gumption to go see a doctor about it yesterday. They gave me dicyclomine for my stomach-ache and took blood and other stuff. The lab just called me and said that I tested positive for giardia, the little parasites that cause the aptly-named giardiasis.