October 2009
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September 2009
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By the end of today, what would you wish to happen?
I wish that you could all be here, that I would feel safe about how you feel about me and that you knew exactly how much you mean to me.
I wish that the world could be a more equal place and that people would get the opportunity to live a worthy life with all the opportunities and security they deserve to have. It’s not a manner of...
Missing
I was taking to one of my very closest friends back in Europe today, Leonie, only to be reminded how much this organization and its people means to me. After a while, it’s easy to just consider it natural that many of your best friends are spread all across the continent, while it really is something very special and unusual. As I write, my Finnish, Albanian and English friends are...
Hunger, by Adrienne Rich
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A fogged hill-scene on an enormous continent, intimacy rigged with terrors, a sequence of blurs the Chinese painter’s ink-stick planned, a scene of desolation comforted by two human figures recklessly exposed, leaning together in a sticklike boat in the foreground. Maybe we look like this, I don’t know. I’m wondering whether we even have what we think we have— lighted...