May 2009
1 post
“The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with...”
– “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop
April 2009
8 posts
“I have given each being a separate and unique way
of seeing and knowing and...”
– The Essential Rumi
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Inspired to be Just Naive Enough
I’ll go out on a limb and call Nathaniel Whittemore one of the spokespersons of our generations movers and shakers (the changers). When I had heard about this year’s Global Engagement Summit (a quasi-training, more inspiritational convention of our generations leaders for global change) line-up I was a little more than excited to see how expansive it all was. My excitement was of...
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More Meditations on the Goal of Art (Its...
“The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”
This is a quotation from one of my favorite poets and critics—T.S. Eliot. I came across this passage while using that crazy new stumbleupon application on firefox (one of the coolest tools on the internet today). But anyway, it got me to thinking (and that’s always a dangerous thing for...
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The Need for Connections (in life, but more so in...
I don’t know what it is about today, but I think the word “connection” has prodded and poked my brain enough to put a hole through my forehead. In reading a post on the blog concerning partnerships and equity in global health research/initiatives written by Ankur Asthana (http://www.sghequity.org/?p=539), I realized that there is a real disconnect between the rather sterile,...
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“And why don’t you write? Write! Writing is for you; you are for you; your...”
– Helene Cixous, The Laugh of Medusa
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Why I Study What I Study
A lot of my friends and family have long been asking me why I am an English major, and on top of that, a Creative Writing major. For a while, I could come up with no real answer other than that I loved it for some reason. But in the process of declaring my major I had to write a short paragraph detailing the answer to that very question. It was, to say the least, a cathartic experience and I would...
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Gaps in The Global Fund
The Global Fund is in a crisis.
The Global Fund is an organization founded by the U.N. under Kofi Annan in 2002 whose mission is to alleviate the problems of Malaira, Tuberculosis, and AIDS. It was deemed “a new approach to international health financing”. At its inception, it proposed a $10 billion dollar fund to be set-up for individual countries to apply for. This is the Global...
WatchHans Rosling shows us the beauty of technology and its impact on improving the health of the world. With access to statistical analysis like this, the public can’t help but see how issues like demographics, aid, economic growth (or lack thereof) can impede the spread of human rights and health around the world.
But using statistics like this wouldn’t have to end with its application...