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Affordable Global Real Estate according to BusinessWeek
I saw an article from BusinessWeek yesterday about “affordable global real estate” and I thought I’d share the link and my observations here.
In The Worlds Most Affordable Housing Markets, writer Maya Roney lays out where the smart money chooses to live based on an index of home prices, cost of goods and services, local stability [...]
The Symmetry of Car accidents, part 2: Alternative Therapy
It’s been almost 6 weeks since the accident, and my wife is still on high alert. She is still having lots of nightmares, and what I can only describe as flashbacks. Every interaction on the road leaps out at her like a high definition instant replay, in a thousand variations. She isn’t driving yet, and [...]
Here We Stand
Here we stand
At the center of a circle
where the weak
Are sheltered in the eye of a storm
And the sins of our previous selves
Whip around
and the death of our future
selves is born
And the voices of the billions cry out for justice
And the blood of the small rains down from above
And the screams of the wicked are [...]
Bones
At the foot of the mountains
Like the spine of a rotting hump backed whale
Jockeying for position
The air a riot of radio waves, horns honking and people shouting
We sip flavored coffee from 55 gallon drums in 4/4
These are the rituals that sustain the great beast as it rises from its slumber
It takes a long time to [...]
Solar Pyre Parts 1 and 2
George knelt down and extended his rough heavy hand to help me to my feet. I stood upright and breathed in deeply, letting the thin and icy air awaken my senses. Time seemed to slow to a stop and then tentatively move forward again at half pace. Beside me, George’s breath came in abrupt gasps, [...]
The Symmetry of Car accidents, part 1
I want to take a moment and write a bit about car accidents.
My wife and children were involved in an awful wreck 10 days ago when their vehicle was struck by a driver who ran a red light at nearly 60 miles per hour. My wife was driving our Suzuki Reno and the car itself [...]
Apathy is the only “Enemy”
There has been a great deal of discussion around race in America the past week or so. Some of it — like presidential candidate Barack Obama’s speech on the subject is uplifting, even where it misses the mark. The nature of this discussion is labyrinthine and fraught with peril because so many people invest so [...]
Solar Pyre
George knelt down and extended his rough heavy hand to help me to my feet. I stood upright and breathed in deeply, letting the thin and icy air awaken my senses. Time seemed to slow to a stop and then tentatively move forward again at half pace. Beside me, George’s breath came in abrupt gasps, [...]
Crushed Velvet Eyeball; Egyptian Splendor.
I paid 75 American for this B.C. Rich “Bronze” Mockingbird style guitar. The guy who sold it to me said it had been his nephews and he had probably played it once or twice, if that. And it was a real challenge to straighten it out but with the help of my daughter we stripped [...]
