Loved the farms in Ashville, NC. This is an HDR shot I took with my iPhone.
Airports
Once again I’m on an airplane looking ahead to 18 hours in the air in three legs with 7 hours in three airports. After 34 years of flying I have never grown tired of it. Growing up between worlds there is, nor ever will be a perfect “fit” for me in any culture. But the [...]
Why they call it “delivery” I don’t know. You have a pizza delivered – it’s cheap, instant, and painless. Delivering a baby on the other hand, is anything but. A healthy Judah Emrys Bruerd was born 4pm June 4th, 2010 after 13 hours of labor culminating in a dramatic, but uneventful c-section. Araella’s birth was [...]
Recent post I wrote for Blood:Water. “On paper it looked like a fairly straight forward itinerary; 7 days in Kenya’s desert north visiting some of the more remote communities Blood:Water has partnered with over the last several years. In retrospect, it’s hard to really decide what the most exciting part of the trip was: driving [...]
The water is clean, but the container is not. Piped in by gravity flow from over 20 miles away, this water has traveled far to get here only to be recontaminated in the very final stage before drinking. Containers like these were championed by government and large aid agencies as being better than open containers [...]
Passage of a Whistle
“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 [...]
Compact Florescent
Among the biggest reasons for not being a little greener is that it costs money and is a hassle. But most people aren’t taking advantage of one of the most obvious ways to be both environmentally friendly and save some some extra cash: CFL’s. Compact florescent lights. Consider this: lighting accounts for 20 percent of [...]
Marsabit
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 [...]
Resources
In my never-ending quest for knowledge the web has proven both a fantastic resources and an incredible waste of time. In an effort to assist you in maximize the former I’m providing my shortlist of resources on my favorite subjects. Be sure to browse the posts in my tag cloud since many of them contain [...]