2008 / 2009

2008 is over and five days into the new year seems like a great time to post some thoughts. Although "five days" may hint a certain lack of enthusiasm or laziness in posting, I assure you not... A Christmas spent abroad and a house-hunting end of year left little time to post.

The end of the year is a time where an astonishing number of individuals succumb to listography and post endless lists of "favorites". Having ended a somewhat roller coaster type year with many changes on all levels any sort of "favorite" list will amount to nothing but a ton of contradictions and miss-matches resulting in a total mess. Therefore, a short list of looking forward to: "read", "watch" and "do" in the next few months of the New Year makes a lot more sense (in no particular order and not in any way a type of New Year Resolution).









- pin mark all important locations on Google maps account
- backup the long list of films on the hard drive to DVDs
- upload all photos to a location for only photos
- backup old home movies on VHS's to DVD's
- move house
- take up painting again
- spend a lot more time in the Sea
- travel to Norway, Thailand or even Japan

I live here

"...Over the past few years, 33-year-old Kirshner has traveled to some of the most desolate and dangerous countries in the world to see and meet some of the most victimized people, in hopes of bringing the world’s attention to their plight...
...Much acclaimed comics journalist Joe Sacco, creator of Palestine, produces a graphic novel that examines war-torn Ingushetia, Chechnya; comics memoirist Phoebe Gloeckner examines the serial killing of women in Juarez, Mexico; French-Algerian artist Kamel Khélif surveys ethnic killing in Burma and Thailand; and finally, there’s a children’s story by author J.B. McKinnon and artist Julie Morstad that tackles the AIDS epidemic the African country of Malawi...
...Kirshner has also founded the I Live Here Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to “telling the stories of silenced and unheard people” through a variety of media projects, as well as establishing writing programs, beginning with a program that will launch in Lilongwe, Malawi..."