Camfed: Educating Women in Rural Africa
Michael Gallagher Great, great cause and one that seems fully committed to pushing out the word and leveraging online support. According to their website, “Camfed is dedicated to fighting poverty and HIV/AIDS…
Education
Vue: Tools for teachers
I stumbled across a project called Vue recently through a friend’s Twitter feed and am intrigued by it. According to its website: “The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open…
Doc Watson, Gallagher Guitars and flatpicking
I sort of stumbled across this as I love Doc Watson’s music. Doc Watson is indeed an interesting character. In keeping with my tradition of doing absolutely no original research…
River Horse Brewery: Lambertville, New Jersey
I will be spending some time this weekend at the River Horse Brewery in Lambertville, New Jersey with friends. We will be sampling all that this decent brewery has to…
The Patient Poor
Waiting to be born, endlessly patient, circling high above in a holding pattern of life, desire. A mendicant my heart, alms your touch, the kingdom of heaven an earthly abode.…
Train ride music: New Jersey Transit and atmospheic sounds
I have a love/hate relationship with the train I take into our Manhattan offices (usually every other week or so). It is the Northeast Corridor New Jersey line that I…
Musik fur Kinder by Carl Orff
I remember listening to this from Danny Boyle’s iTunes Celebrity Playlist and thinking it sounded very cinematic. The composer’s name is Carl Orff and the track is entitled Musik fur…