Darkness bleeds from the walls as I step from bright daylight into the house of death. The hovering ghoulish odour of mortality chokes me. A fierce battle of fight or flight takes place during that one step. Lucky for me, fight wins.
Archives for 2013
Tarmac Meditations #119: Never Fades Away
I thought about it while running this morning because a flight of F-16s flew over head, their approach heard before they were seen. Even in the peaceful morning rain, the terror that is implied in war planes overhead was palpable. I came back and looked at this and said what the hell, maybe time to put it out there.
Moonrise
A moonrise unlike any you’ve ever seen … simply beautiful!
The 20% Solution
My assignment: cut 20% of extraneous duties out of my life. No musts, no have-tos, only to answer this question: what would two hours of beauty look like?
Making A Difference: Chelsea Peters – Atin Afrika Foundation
A Life As A Human Interview: Chelsea and her partner Owiny Morris met a group of street children in Lira, Uganda in 2011 and felt compelled to help them. When they found that there was no government social network to help them they turned to each other and asked a simple question, “Why not us?”
Mushroom Man
Mycellium have the potential to clean up toxic waste, rein in E. coli, and cure Alzheimer’s disease. Plus they make a mighty fine addition to any stir fry.
Punishing the Saver
Developments in the Cypriot financial sector have sent shock waves around the world. The decision to heavily tax savers is ill advised and will only exacerbate Cyprus’s economic problems in the long term.
A Grenadian Love Affair
Having passed through well over forty different countries I’ve have found something to awe, impress, excite, fascinate or calm me in every single one. But I’d never found a place to which I thought I’d be content to return every single year…at least until I met Grenada.
Motivation-Reaction Units: Cracking the Code of Good Writing
What’s the secret to good prose? What makes it work—not just on the aesthetic level of vivid and poetic word choices, but on the deeper and ultimately more important level of functionality?
Scuba Tourism And The Death Of Coral Reefs – Part 2
The only region in the Caribbean that has a completely intact major coral reef eco-system is the Jardines de la Reina (Queen’s Gardens) coral reef off Cuba’s south coast.
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