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Remember: This Journey is Just a Walk in the Woods
Uncertainty. How many times must I meet you before I remember your stubborn face? In work, in travel, in body, in love—nothing is truly stable, not […]
How do you Organize a Local Event when you’re Not a Local?
Inhale. Exhale. Fifty bodies lift and settle in unison. The light changes from day to dusk. I look around the circle at faces from here […]
How to Return when there is No Turning Back
The plane lands. The boat docks. The train whistles as it arrives at the station. You step off. Pause. Look around. Friends and loved ones wait […]
Microadventure in Costa Rica: 3 Snippets of Daily Life
Whether I’m hopping continents or battling insects in my jungle house, life is always some kind of a wild ride… or a microadventure! These days, […]
Podcast: WERK for Peace Founding Organizer Firas Nasr talks Peaceful Protesting
Introducing (maybe): a new platform for all the podcast lovers in here! Last week I had the honor of speaking with WERK for Peace founding organizer (and […]
How Technology Could (Maybe) Create a Nu World
Everything you wanted to know about my new work with NuMundo and studies in Media and Peacebuilding… and then some. What will the internet age […]
It’s Not about Being Good—It’s about Being Bold
“It’s time to be bold, stand up, and share your art OUT LOUD.” Thus reads the event description for the open mic night I’m organizing this […]
Why I Don’t Care about International Relations
[Our] accomplishments do not make the Western paradigm exceptional or suggest in any way that it has or ought to have a monopoly on the […]
Pure Light, Pure Life: A Costa Rica Snapshot
At the edge of Ciudad Colón, Costa Rica, in 6 am light The light falling through my windows at 6 am cleans the sleep from my […]