This has nothing to do with the Baha’i Fast, but while procrastinating on my linear algebra homework, Canabalt appeared in my browser. I don’t know how to describe this thing. It’s a side-scrolling platform game – basically 2-dimensional, with a bit of parallax flare in the backgrounds. It’s black and white, pixelated, and achieves the [...]
Brand new bag (© 2010 by Lev Rickards)
So over the weekend, Negin taught me how to sew! I’m pretty sure Mom taught me when I was little, but I don’t really remember. I’m now fairly comfortable threading a needle, putting a knot in the thread so it doesn’t pull out of the fabric, and poking [...]
Allium Flora blank book/journal (CC / BY-NC 2.0 by Smallest Forest)
Yesterday we broke the fast with our cousin and her husband, and then proceeded to babysit for their 11-month-old so they could go on a date! While the baby slept, Negin taught me how to sew – we made a small bag for a prayer [...]
Lowell Mass-19.jpg (CC / BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Anne Ruthmann)
It is so beautiful outside today! Continuing our commitment to post every day throughout the Baha’i Fast, here is the promised report about the junior youth group’s service project.
Based on a visit to one of the homes of the junior youth, we had agreed to offer service [...]
9th floor Harold Washington Library (CC / BY-NC-ND 2.0 by clarkmaxwell)
Yesterday, we had a small insight about the Baha’i Fast. As sundown approached, I noticed that I was really looking forward to the sun going down so I could eat! And in that moment, it occurred to me that what I should really be looking [...]
summer stroll (CC / BY 2.0 by Muffet)
Tonight was the first midterm for Linear Algebra, a class I am ostensibly taking to prepare myself for graduate study. The last question on the exam was especially challenging for me. It felt as though I had the pieces I needed, but didn’t know how to fit them [...]
Showing photographs … learning photography (CC / BY-NC-SA 2.0 Nexus 6)
Last night we talked a lot about building capacity, and the necessity of being in a humble posture of learning. (This all in preparation for Northeast Massachusetts’ upcoming cluster reflection meeting!) We talked about the value of questions, and the interplay between anecdotes and questions [...]
“This is, O my God, the first of the days on which Thou hast bidden Thy loved ones to observe the Fast. I ask of Thee by Thy Self and by him who hath fasted out of love for Thee and for Thy good-pleasure – and not out of self and desire, nor out of [...]
This month’s Atlantic Magazine has an in-depth piece on Walmart’s “Heritage Agriculture” program:
Farmland, My kids, Taiwan (CC / BY-NC-ND Harry in Taiwan)
The program, which Walmart calls Heritage Agriculture, will encourage farms within a day’s drive of one of its warehouses to grow crops that now take days to arrive in trucks from states like Florida [...]
by Naomi Shihab Nye (shared with me by the beloved Mad Johnson)
The Arabs have a saying:
When a stranger comes to your door
feed him for 3 days without ever asking his name,
where he has come from and where he is going.
Because by then he will be able to answer,
But of course, by then, you won’t care.
Let’s [...]