From my summer in Croatia
1, 2 and 3:Nature photos from KRKA Nature Reservate
5. Emergency landing in Zagreb due to error in fuel system, scary...
4 ...and a sundown from Rogoznica
Starting June 10th, Stop Genocide Now will bring you For 12 consecutive days, i-ACT (interactive-activism) connects you with the faces, names and lives of Darfur refugees who escaped, for now, genocide in their homeland. Watch daily videos from the field team; read journal entries and add your comments; take action daily that will change the way the world responds to genocide. The violence in and around Darfur has escalated since our last trip in February 2008, when there was an attempted military coup in Chad. Since diplomatic ties have been but cut between Chad and Sudan, and thousands are stranded on the border in between. Visit Stop Genocide Now i-ACT (www.stopgenocidenow.org/iact) to join the community and connect with a Darfuri who needs your voice and action.
The situation on the ground is unstable, and the rainy season has begun. But we feel that at this time the refugees need to be heard by the international community and to feel your hope more so than anytime in the past. Escalating violence in Darfur, Khartoum, S. Sudan, and Chad threatens their already hard life in the camps and adds to the trauma they have already felt.
The field team will include: Gabriel and KTJ from SGN, and Scott Warren and Colin O'Brien from STAND (Student Anti-Genocide Coalition).
For 12 consecutive days, i-ACT will bring you daily videos from the field so you can reconnect with so many of our friends, like Adam, Yakoub, Islam, and Anima; and meet new friends. We hope to visit Camps Kounoungo and Mile once again; and sit down and speak with newly resettled refugees who escaped the most recent bombings in Darfur. We will also be posting our journal entries, and encourage you to post your own comments to us, the refugees, or to one another. i-ACT will also offer daily action items for you and your community to participate in. Please join us as an i-ACTivist in this journey and experience.
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http://www.stopgenocidenow.org/iact/iact4/2008/01/08/368
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I'm apparantly all over the place lately.... between the store blog, here, and my ancient livejournal.... yikes. Its hard to remember what I put where.
I've been thinking of consolidating the store blog in with my personal blog... but I havent found time or the inclination to actually -do- it just yet.
I'm having severe issues concentrating at the moment on anything. I've been in a race against time, having most of the store on sale as that silly fundraiser I keep getting nagged to do. I have had several people asking me to do one, and I told them it wasnt likely to do very well. There are times when I really wish I weren't right... On the good side, no one can pull the "you should/I told you to/I think it would work" card on me for a while... and the next time someone suggests it, I have a good example to point them to.
I have whatever the newest bug is that is going around, and whats funny about this, is that anytime I get sick, I wind up getting customs... or.... it will be completely dead for days and then all of the sudden, when I'm nursing a fever and trying to get myself into bed, I'll be bombarded all at once from all directions with IM's from people who need me or want my opinion/skills for something. I'm not ungrateful, by any means... and I'm hesistant to even mention it as thats usually the cue for the powers that be to come in and do something to nail me. -grin-
I think I likely should have gone back to bed, once I DID get to bed last night I laid there awake thinking about a hundred other things (store, two new clients, Sue and the Nox build that I hadnt gotten to open up until this morning... which led to another can of worms I cant quite grasp at the moment...) instead of what I should have been thinking about (sheep hurdling over hedgerows or somesuch)
This morning was awful, lots of arguing and temper tantrums trying to get the boy-o on the bus.... lets just say that he DID get on the bus, but he was screaming 'MOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!" through the bus window with tears rolling down his face. -sigh- And... I know I had a point to coming here and rambling but now I'll be damned if I can remember what the hell it was or even what I've been talking about all this time. -sigh-
To bed? Or not to bed.... That is the question.
Too much to get done today :(
Apache junction police blotter reads - daniel arnold of mesa arizona found guilty of cross country travel. LOL...took me a few retypes to make this post on my phone i was laughing so hard.
Will post an end of day message later
I dont believe in strict linear travel. I TOOK A DETOUR god damn caps...with family to go visit second hand shops and late running estate sales. We call it thrift-whoring. It's like threasure questing
and a hold over from you days as a lad scouting for used military clothing to mod and run from the garda in...heh....but back on the road to queensridge arizona. This is a tunnel if not obvious.
Come on baby...-purr- email me so i know you're there with me ... -quirks mouth-
Posting only to flickr if i have a handful of pics that are the same so i dont clutter my blog
