Article by Dan Haseltine for Blood:Water Mission I was not really prepared. As I turned the corner, my eyes took it in, and I felt my lungs fill with air, and let it all go, as if I had just beheld a great waterfall, or a mountain vista. It was nothing of the sort. But it [...]
Friday, October 17, 2008
Marsabit. It’s a bit like Mars, but without the long trek across the solar system. Though after nine spine-rattling hours along a dusty, boulder strewn road, I staggered out of the 4×4 Land Rover looking as if I’d just spent a month in space. The landscape was an incredible mix of red volcanic rock and [...]
Monday, September 8, 2008
Water flows out of the well and onto the dusty hands of 50 or so laughing school children who crowd in to get a drink during a break between classes. The school is a cinder-block shell along a sandy road deep in the bush of southern Mozambique and the very fact that it exists at [...]
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
I’ve been 32 years old for about a month now and I have to admit to being a bit disappointed. I expected that somehow being 32 would have imparted a bit more maturity into my life; a little more temperance. And yet having spent the better part of 6 hours the other week hiking a [...]
Wed, May 13, 2009
Matrix 360 is a circuit training workout I created that’s awesome for hotels and on-the-go because it requires no weights. It consists of 6 circuits (or sets) of 6 exercises for a total of 36 exercises covering all major muscle groups. Done over 10 weeks you have 360 total exercises; hence Matrix “360″. For those [...]
Thu, Jan 29, 2009
“The Butterfly” played by Barak Bruerd on an Overton Low D As an Irish musician (a very flexible term when applied to myself), I have a certain affinity for flutes and whistles. So it’s no small thing for me to have sold my Copeland Low D whistle on ebay. Copeland whistles are the Cadillac of Irish [...]
Sat, Jan 17, 2009
Nope, not my comments, thoughts or even rants about the World Bank. Literally “me” on the World Bank website. Mostly it’s just a pictoral link to my website with a tag line of “see what other young people are up to in the world of international development”. Somehow they found my website and just cut [...]

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One amazing flute player
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