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del.icio.us as a self-check tool

I may not have been the first to notice this, but the clouds you can generate with del.icio.us for use in websites and blogs can bring up an interesting perceived ‘profile’ about the user based on their tags.
For instance in my tag cloud below, one might think that i have more interest in ‘webdev’ than [...]

Dad Love

My dad wrote this to me the other day:
the email said basically this
it had been a while since I saw your site, and this was the first I had seen of your art work. It is extremely cohesive–by that I mean, it is clear it was done by the same artist. This is the [...]

With Soft Gamelan Tones She Moved So Eloquently and Beautifully Through the House

When I was small, my mother used to be a Balinese dance teacher. She can no longer dance now (due to some problems with her back) and can oft times be found simply sleeping or tending to her cats. Dancing was the one way that she was able to integrate her culture, her mind [...]

The Putu Man

I used to live in Indonesia in s small village called Gunung Sari. Everyday in the early evening, the putu man would come walking along a path that came near our house…

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Part of Me

This is a digital story I made while working as a CTC VISTA at the San Diego LGBT Center. In it, I explored the noise I sometimes see in the world around me. Where are we going? What is important?

The Lighthouse Keeper

I wrote this poem while working at home for people with developmental disabilities. It was probably one of the more strenuous and sullen jobs/times of my life.

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The Lighthouse Keeper
a boy who swallows glass and can’t speak so he makes painfully beautiful music to express what he longs to say
a man who was once a brilliant [...]

Leaving: My Last Week Working at the Teen Drop-in Center

so i think this is my last week working for StandUp and I’m a little sad on leaving. Today at the center i said, ‘What the fuck? Let’s do it” and so on a whim, i took all of our kids that were there to go and see Starwars Episode III. [...]