I needed some interesting way to start 2010 so I decided to hike up Black Mountain down here in the South Bay. It’s only 2800 feet tall, but it’s a fun little hike. I got started around 7 AM and was back home well before lunch. I made a video, too. Before you watch it, [...]
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The foggy garden back home
June 28th, 2010
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The foggy garden back home, originally uploaded by timbrauhn. We took off early in the morning to head back to Denver. The land was foggy. We dug up veggies to eat in Colorado. I love this garden. Good work, Mom!
Biosphere politics
February 12th, 2010
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Jeremy Rifkin is blowing my mind today. Here’s a very tiny excerpt from his new book The Empathic Civilization: For the Internet generation, “quality of life” becomes as important as individual opportunity in fashioning a new dream for the 21st century. The transition to biosphere consciousness has already begun. All over the world, a younger [...]
Physical insanity
November 13th, 2009
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When I was training earlier in the summer in London, I went out for a walk with some of my Faiths Act companions. While returning to base, I spotted some stone pillars on the street in Southbank. I couldn’t just leave them there and not hop around on them. I was triple-dog-dared to leap from [...]
My street and the moon
October 15th, 2009
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My street and the moon, originally uploaded by timbrauhn. I shot these with some long exposures from my bedroom window one night. I like it here in California.
Blog Action Day 2009 – Climate Change
October 15th, 2009
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I joined the international chorus of voices for last year’s Blog Action Day on Poverty and had a great time of it. The concept is really amazing; much like the planet’s interconnected ecosystems and processes, we bloggers are tied together by the intertubes. Semantically, I’ve never joined the “global warming” crowd, preferring instead to use [...]
Fasting for Ramadan
October 8th, 2009
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Ramadan came this year during our Faiths Act Fellows training in Tanzania. Each morning, we would rise between 4 and 4:15 a.m. to sit outside in the stillness of East Africa and eat our breakfast. “We” in this case was Hafsa Arain (Muslim), Nadeem Javaid (Muslim), Amy McNair (Christian), and me. People tend to be [...]
Test post from the iPod Touch
October 6th, 2009
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Ok. I wanted so see how fancy I could make a general post through Quickpress. It looks ok so far, but what happens when I try to insert a picture: Ok. I can’t select the Choose File option. Well, this will have to do for now.
October Newsletter from Interfaith Youth Core
October 6th, 2009
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This post appeared in the “Movement in Action” section of the Interfaith Youth Core’s October email newsletter: For most ordinary jobs, training or orientation usually denotes a few hours, perhaps a day or two, devoted to learning the ins and outs of one’s new organization. The Faiths Act Fellows trained for six weeks on three [...]
Mosquito Poop
August 21st, 2009
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I am looking at a small village. It’s about 70 feet on a side, complete with a variety of mud and brick homes, trees, grasses, and dozens of mosquitoes. And a technician with a slew of interesting gadgets. Oh, and no people. This “village” is actually a mock-up; a to-scale version inside a greenhouse (itself a massive [...]
