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Cracks In The Pavement: Out of the frying pan... What next for Burma?
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Cracks In The Pavement. Monday, August 24, 2009. Out of the frying pan. What next for Burma? I begin this post some eight hours deep into a flight from San Francisco to Osaka. The map function on the seatback display informs me that we are several hundred miles east of the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaido. North lies the sea of Okhotsk and the eastern fringes of Russia, a corner of this fair planet I will likely only visit during games of Risk. August 28, 2009 at 1:12 PM. Never mind about Myanmar...
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Cracks In The Pavement: October 2009
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Cracks In The Pavement. Thursday, October 8, 2009. Looking ahead to energy descent. From December 6 - 19, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Control will convene in Copenhagen to discuss the a followup to the Kyoto Protocol when that agreement expires in 2012. I may not be bound for Denmark, but I am nonetheless getting in to the spirit of the season with this post of climate ponderings. Thomas Friedman's Hot, Flat, and Crowded. And Elizabeth Kolbert's Fieldnotes From a Catastrophe. I wat...
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Cracks In The Pavement: April 2009
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Cracks In The Pavement. Saturday, April 25, 2009. From the archives: Ubud, Bali. Here is a journal entry I wrote four years ago while visiting the island of Bali in Indonesia. I was in Indonesia for one week while working with Volunteers in Asia. I plan on doing some writing on that experience in the near future. Until then, here are some thoughts I scribbled while saddled up to the bar. April 3, 2005. Worlds. A cultural train wreck, to borrow a favorite term from my good friend Brian Penrose. I read Von...
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Cracks In The Pavement: August 2009
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Cracks In The Pavement. Monday, August 24, 2009. Out of the frying pan. What next for Burma? I begin this post some eight hours deep into a flight from San Francisco to Osaka. The map function on the seatback display informs me that we are several hundred miles east of the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaido. North lies the sea of Okhotsk and the eastern fringes of Russia, a corner of this fair planet I will likely only visit during games of Risk. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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You, Me, & Everyone in Between.: 07.09
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You, Me, and Everyone in Between. Everyday stories from life. Wednesday, July 29, 2009. It cost too much! It's hump day, that means it's time to head to the Main Street Farmers Market! Or think about going to your local market wherever you live. For you Pittsburgher's, there's one on the Northside every Friday). Along with the amazing chops we roasted potatoes, beets, onions, and celeriac together with olive oil and garlic. (350 for about an hour) To top it all off we sauteed the stems and greens fro...
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Cracks In The Pavement: Fond farewell to a remarkable woman
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Cracks In The Pavement. Thursday, September 10, 2009. Fond farewell to a remarkable woman. She would ask in disbelief. And then, 'Well, be sure you get here early in the morning.'. What are the monks like? What do they eat? Do you have to shave your head when you go there? Do they grow their own food? In large part to give Grandma a fuller picture of my experiences at the monastery, I wrote Recollections of Plum Village. September 15, 2009 at 7:19 AM. October 1, 2009 at 12:52 PM. Well done, Chad.
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Cracks In The Pavement: Looking ahead to energy descent
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Cracks In The Pavement. Thursday, October 8, 2009. Looking ahead to energy descent. From December 6 - 19, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Control will convene in Copenhagen to discuss the a followup to the Kyoto Protocol when that agreement expires in 2012. I may not be bound for Denmark, but I am nonetheless getting in to the spirit of the season with this post of climate ponderings. Thomas Friedman's Hot, Flat, and Crowded. And Elizabeth Kolbert's Fieldnotes From a Catastrophe. Octob...
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Cracks In The Pavement: March 2009
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Cracks In The Pavement. Wednesday, March 25, 2009. Views from the island. We were at full tilt on my first full day on Williams Island Farm. Noah, Kelsey, Ryan, Felicja, Ashley, and I sowed eggplant and lettuce, planted cabbage, fertigated garlic and strawberries, modified the greenhouse, fixed the compost spreader, milked the goats, fed the sheep, harvested shitake mushrooms, collected chicken eggs. and so on. A short post today. Just wanted to share some photos. Monday, March 23, 2009. Are there patter...
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Cracks In The Pavement: May 2009
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Cracks In The Pavement. Tuesday, May 26, 2009. We were in the Spring garden thinning carrots. It was midmorning and the day had not wasted time in getting hot. My baseball cap was cocked at a ridiculous angle to block the sun. The going was slow, so you put your water bottle ten paces ahead as an incentive and as a measure of progress. And then he says, “Where’s that old woman with the toothache? You know what I’d love to study? I said. Story-telling. What a beautiful, lost art. Could tell a story,.
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You, Me, & Everyone in Between.: 05.09
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You, Me, and Everyone in Between. Everyday stories from life. Friday, May 29, 2009. I have had a great desire to write about my new found passion. What is that Passion? Well, it's for something that every human being on this planet has in common. No one's immune to it and everyone needs it. Food. You might ask, "D.J., why is food your new passion"? 1 My current reading of The Omnivores Dilemma. 3 Just being a connected person. I like to know the story behind things, whether it's a person or food. 4 Spiri...