I was meditating some on Sen. Obama’s race speech the other day while sitting on the grass in the middle of the quad. From there, I could people watch to my heart’s content. After a while, I began to notice a pattern.
American University in Washington, D.C. bills itself as a uniquely diverse school. It is [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Chosen Racial Segregation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged College, Race on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Immigration, as seen from Southwest Texas
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Conversations, Immigration on March 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The southernmost borderlands of west Texas, between the Big Bend State and National Parks, look almost uninhabitable from 5,000 feet in the air. The green life of the cacti are swallowed by the harsh brown and yellow landscape of the Chihuahuan Desert.
In this place, small communities of weather-worn Texans and their Mexican counterparts have carved [...]
Ode to the Snowies: Remembering my First Backpacking Trip
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Backpacking, Outdoors on March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A thousand years ago, man used to wake up in the middle of nowhere all the time. Stars were a guide, water indicated where camp could be made and standing on a lonely precipice was all one needed to feel wholly alive. Today, man works very hard to need little beyond what cable, four walls [...]
