[Note: today is Madaraka Day, commemorating the day Kenya attained internal self-rule before full independence from Great Britain in 1963.]

A friend asked me before I left Denver what I would miss most about home once I got settled in Nairobi.  My first answer?  My independence.

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Watch this: "The Possibility of Hope" - a 27-minute documentary by Alfonso Curon, director of the provocative film, Children of Men (posted on YouTube in two parts). It's a special feature on the Children of Men DVD. Find part 2 here.

I've watched it twice now, keeping my Netflixed disc too long, but there's just so much to learn from it. The ( Read more... )

Everybody wants to be the next Portland.

At the latest public meeting for the Downtown Denver Area Plan, the lead consultant on the updated master plan, Daniel Iacofano, talked through a slick slide show comparing Denver's aspirations to the way more desireable downtowns have evolved, citing examples from Portland and other people-centered cities.  ( Read more... )

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"Cross every ocean for the sake of locomotion/but I wouldn't have a notion/how to save my soul ..." 
- Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark, "Locomotion," 1984

For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be somewhere else. As a child, I dreamed of being whisked away to England and wearing a uniform to school; as a young woman, I developed ( Read more... )