Strange discovery: Including my current house but excluding my family, I have had forty-four housemates. Twenty-one males and twenty-three females. Four of the latter were actual roommates. I'm sure anyone who lived in the Wesley House for at least three years has a good chance of catching up, and Nicki wins the prize. Forty-four housemates! Goodness. It's a wonder I'm still a people-person.
October 19, 2008
October 17, 2008
Work in progress on a Friday afternoon
I almost discovered the meaning of life as I wandered a library with open tomes
Where ancient wisdom censured sure science and mysteries waited smugly for attention.
Here was infinite knowledge: cures and tales and safe-certain pick-up lines.
But none could answer why, as I paused to intake breath, truth began in a still, small voice.
Where ancient wisdom censured sure science and mysteries waited smugly for attention.
Here was infinite knowledge: cures and tales and safe-certain pick-up lines.
But none could answer why, as I paused to intake breath, truth began in a still, small voice.
How now, brown cow?
I just came across the most interesting name: Earlean Hurt. She is the human resources manager for Feed the Children. (www.feedthechildren.org) I wish I knew what it meant, but SuperScout (work filter) is blocking the baby names websites. I think it has something to do with earls.
Last night I was ruminating on this social phenomenen and essentially decided (yet again) that I need to spend less time on Facebook because I tend to get too sucked in. This morning I decided to apply my good, better, best philosophy. It's not that Facebook is inherently evil. In fact, when I am using it with self-control, it is "good" to keep in touch, stalk with discretion, and share pictures. However, "better" and "best" are spending quality time with people and with the Lord. Not to mention that I need to read and to experience new things, both of which are generally preferable to spending more time behind a computer. Boundaries, Facebook, boundaries.
October 15, 2008
Call and Response
This is a limited release "rockumentary" educating people about the global slave trade. I'm hoping that it will turn into an "Invisible Children" sort of grassroots movement, in which people are motivated not only to spread awareness but actually to revolt against evil. My friends and I went to see it the other day, and it is convicting and wrenching but not hopeless. I've been impressed by the heart behind this project. The cost of production was donated and all profits are going to nonprofits that are fighting the slave trade and healing victims. Call and Response plans to continue the movement by focusing attention on product sources. In other words, are human rights being violated in the production of our common products? Anyway, please check out their site!
http://callandresponse.com/
CALL+RESPONSE is a first of its kind feature documentary film that reveals the world’s 27 million dirtiest secrets: there are more slaves today than ever before in human history. CALL+RESPONSE goes deep undercover where slavery is thriving from the child brothels of Cambodia to the slave brick kilns of rural India to reveal that in 2007, Slave Traders made more money than Google, Nike and Starbucks combined.
Luminaries on the issue such as Cornel West, Madeleine Albright, Daryl Hannah, Julia Ormond, Ashley Judd, Nicholas Kristof, and many other prominent political and cultural figures offer first hand account of this 21st century trade. Performances from Grammy-winning and critically acclaimed artists including Moby, Natasha Bedingfield, Cold War Kids, Matisyahu, Imogen Heap, Talib Kweli, Five For Fighting, Switchfoot, members of Nickel Creek and Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers, Rocco Deluca move this chilling information into inspiration for stopping it.
Music is part of the movement against human slavery. Dr. Cornel West connects the music of the American slave fields to the popular music we listen to today, and offers this connection as a rallying cry for the modern abolitionist movement currently brewing.
http://callandresponse.com/
CALL+RESPONSE is a first of its kind feature documentary film that reveals the world’s 27 million dirtiest secrets: there are more slaves today than ever before in human history. CALL+RESPONSE goes deep undercover where slavery is thriving from the child brothels of Cambodia to the slave brick kilns of rural India to reveal that in 2007, Slave Traders made more money than Google, Nike and Starbucks combined.
Luminaries on the issue such as Cornel West, Madeleine Albright, Daryl Hannah, Julia Ormond, Ashley Judd, Nicholas Kristof, and many other prominent political and cultural figures offer first hand account of this 21st century trade. Performances from Grammy-winning and critically acclaimed artists including Moby, Natasha Bedingfield, Cold War Kids, Matisyahu, Imogen Heap, Talib Kweli, Five For Fighting, Switchfoot, members of Nickel Creek and Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers, Rocco Deluca move this chilling information into inspiration for stopping it.
Music is part of the movement against human slavery. Dr. Cornel West connects the music of the American slave fields to the popular music we listen to today, and offers this connection as a rallying cry for the modern abolitionist movement currently brewing.
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