I’m trying to find a pattern in my life. I have a rough sense of the trajectory that got me to Addis Ababa, but now I’m trying to find the secret to emotional survival here. Today I played indoor soccer, and tomorrow is my first day of cross-country practice. Part of me thinks that I’m [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Life Cycles
Posted in journal on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
karmic book discovery
Posted in books on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes I’m especially glad that I’m don’t teach reading, because if I had to help kids pick out books I’d be hard pressed to give them good advice. Books tend to come to me through a karmic pipeline of just-right-ness. Movies, music, and even news reports also try to travel on this special magnetic frequency, [...]
Color… or Why I Didn’t Go to Navy
Posted in journal on August 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When I stumbled half awake out of the van at 4:30 am, local time, and took in my ground floor apartment, I almost cried. One whole wall seemed to be made entirely of doors and glass with no windows anywhere. The orange glare of the lights in the courtyard emanated depressingly into every glass pane [...]
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