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Yesterday, Bob treated me to both lunch and dinner… and salsa lessons in between. First, homemade spinach ravioli at Andre’s Confiserie Suisse complete with cinnamon tea, cream filled cake covered in marzipan and fine coffee. Wow. Then salsa lessons… we got vid of a cool dance sequence for women… so I’ll be able to practice! [...]

Exciting news! The man featured in the documentary “Being the Diablo” has invited me to collaborate on another documentary film – this time, one that features the Copper Canyon Ultramarathon. I’ve been itching to get more involved in documentary and film making for too long now. Finally… I am!
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Helped film two most interesting interviews today. [...]

I keep coming back to this idea of posting every day. Still working on making it stick. I tend to have two posting seasons: flood season and dry season. Ha. But, after discovering the journal entries from my first trip abroad in Italy (which I just published in Unearthing Firsts), I am once again inspired [...]

The Warrior of Light and His World
by Paulo Coelho
The Warrior of Light is always trying to improve.
Each blow of his sword carries with it centuries of wisdom and meditation. Each blow has to have the force and the skill of all the warriors of the past, who still continue to bless the combat. Each movement [...]

Simple yet complex. Impersonal yet speaks directly to the heart. Motivates you to become your best self.
Paulo Coelho is good at that isn’t he. Speaking not to your mind or ego… but directly to your heart!
A short story from Paulo Coelho:
source: “Like the Flowing River” by Paulo Coelho
A boy was watching his grandmother write a [...]

Hoorah! Hoorah!
The ants actually do kind of get a Hoorah from me now. Yes, I’m afraid I’ve just become a little bit dorkier.
My mom will hate I admitted this, but just recently we had an ant invasion. My step-dad wanted to annihilate them. My mom and I couldn’t bear it. I was researching online [...]

The leading pastor at a Christian Church I attended while I was living in Columbia, MO recently posted the following passage from C.S. Lewis’ The Problem of Pain on the Crossing Blog. The excerpt resonated with me, so I thought I would share it here too:
“There have been times when I think we do not [...]

No time to Twitter? Then Flutter. The next platform of the blogosphere is not microblogging but nanoblogging. Hahahaha… check it out:

Continued from Many Cities Did She Visit…
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I don’t really know how to share everything there is to share about my experience with Selvin. There is so much that I encountered with him, so much that I learned from him. He’s unspeakably complex and compelling.
I had left Lago [...]

A vid of Mamadou that I never got around to posting. They were an African group that performed at the Multi Kulti Ball in Graz, Austria (Feb 2008). The percussion is fun and toward the end of the video, you see some young girls really wagging their booties!