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Latest Blogs

Choose Power: A Dream-Inspired Thought Experiment
Adventure, Poetry & Fiction

Choose Power: A Dream-Inspired Thought Experiment

June 12, 2018May 22, 2020 Toby 2 mins read

It’s been a wildly busy month, and though sharing something here has been on my to-do list every week, it just keeps getting pushed to […]

Remember: This Journey is Just a Walk in the Woods
Adventure, Central America, Nomadism

Remember: This Journey is Just a Walk in the Woods

April 29, 2018May 22, 2020 Toby 4 mins read

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?
Central America, Culture, Peace

How do you Organize a Local Event when you’re Not a Local?

March 27, 2018May 22, 2020 Toby 6 mins read

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
Adventure, Central America, Nomadism

How to Return when there is No Turning Back

March 1, 2018May 22, 2020 Toby 3 mins read

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
Adventure, Central America

Microadventure in Costa Rica: 3 Snippets of Daily Life

December 20, 2017May 22, 2020 Toby 4 mins read

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
Culture, Peace

Podcast: WERK for Peace Founding Organizer Firas Nasr talks Peaceful Protesting

December 11, 2017May 22, 2020 Toby 2 mins read

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
Central America, Culture, Peace

How Technology Could (Maybe) Create a Nu World

November 27, 2017May 22, 2020 Toby 11 mins read

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
Poetry & Fiction

It’s Not about Being Good—It’s about Being Bold

November 5, 2017May 22, 2020 Toby 3 mins read

“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
Central America, Peace

Why I Don’t Care about International Relations

October 13, 2017May 22, 2020 Toby 7 mins read

[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
Central America, Nature

Pure Light, Pure Life: A Costa Rica Snapshot

September 30, 2017May 22, 2020 Toby 3 mins read

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 […]

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