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Calder's Mountain

Alexander Calder is known for his mobiles .. I had no idea there one was big enough to climb on. Odd, the police did not come running to fine, or even arrest, me as they surely would, if I had tried the gymnastic with an environmental sculputre in San Francisco.

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name: nam "amin" lamore
location: a berber town in the middle atlas of morocco
the lesson: friendship is tested by space and time ©
the journey: a padawan-learner aspiring to be a bodhisattva.

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milestones

[the peace corps morocco experience]

aug 2006: vacation part i, part ii, part iii, part iv

june 2006: in-service training, agadir

dec 21, 2005: first 100 days in morocco

nov 26, 2005: swearing-in ceremony

late oct 2005: site assignment

sept 13, 2005: arrived in morocco

mid 2004: turned in application

early 2004: picked up a new peace corps application

1991: picked up peace corps application

blog parade

[note about linking: all links are reciprocated via my toolkit; however, my frequent reads, readers & commentors are added here (non-priority listing).
africa

europe

~ the dutched pinay:: der nederlands
~ love hurts:: uk (occasional adult contents)
~ mizezslocombe:: france (suspended)
~ scott & ian:: der nederlands
~ sarah champion:: uk
~ andrew orlowski:: uk

asia-pacific

north america
[ok, so canada isn't u.s.a. junior ...]

others

"where did all the links go?"
-> fear not, look in the toolkit

featured posts

[go on an archaeological dig ...]

reading

fiction ...

~ "jackie oh!" kitty kelley
~ "cosmopolitan: a bartender's life," toby cecchini

~~~ "memoirs of a geisha," arthur golden~~

~~~ "hits below the beltway," dave barry~~

~~~ "bad business," robert parker~~

~~~ "melancholy baby," robert parker~~

~~~ "the great adventures of sherlock holmes," sir arthur conan doyle~~

~~~ "hush money," robert parker~~

~~~ "dark horse," tami hoag~~

~~~ ""the great tree of avalon: child of the dark prophecy," t.a.barronk~~

~~~ "the destiny of isabelle eberhardt," cecily mackworth~~

~~~ "to the nines," janet evanovich~~

~~~ "a very long engagement," sebastien japrisot~~

~~~ "the spider's house," paul bowles~~

~~~ "the reader, a novel," bernhard schlink~~

~~~ "the lord of the rings: the trilogy," j.r.r. tolkien~~

~~~ "speciation," jerry coyne~~

~~~ "brilliant orange: the neurotic genius of dutch football," david winner~~

~~~ "a midsummer's night dream," william shakespeare~~

~~~ "the metamorphosis," franz kafka~~

~~~ "kraftwerk, i was a robot," wolfgang flur~~

~~~ "electroboy, memoir of mania," andy behrman~~

~~~ "the new new thing," michael lewis~~

~~~ "icons of evolution: science or myth? why much of what we teach about evolution is wrong," jonathan wells~~

~~~ "promises to keep: technology, law and the future of entertainment," william w. fisher iii~~

non-fiction ...

~ "crossing the threshold of hope," his holiness john paul ii
~ "coconut palm frond weaving," william goodloe

~~~ "the meaning of the glorious koran," mohammed marmaduke pickthall~~

~~~ "a practical guide to islamic monuments in morocco," richard parker~~

~~~ "moroccan arabic phrasebook," dan bacan & bichr andjar, lonely planet publications, 1999.~~

~~~ "export marketing for a small handicraft business," edward millard, an oxfam/intemediate technology publications, 1996.~~

~~~ "profit for the poor: cases in micro-finance," malcolm harper, intemediate technology publications, 1998.~~

~~~ "power, process and participation: tools for change," rachel slocum, lori wichhart, dianne rocheleau, and barbara thomas-slayer, intemediate technology publications, 1995~~

~ "where there is no doctor: a village health care handbook," david werner, carol thuman, and jane maxwell, the hesperian foundation, 2003.

~~~ "culture matters," peace corps information corps information collection and exchange.~~

~~~ "paca: participatory analysis for community action," peace corps information corps information collection and exchange, 1996.~~

~~~ "the sixth extinction: patterns of life and the future of humankind," richard leakey and roger lewin~~

~~~ "fast food nation: the dark side of the all-american meal," eric schlosser~~

~~~ "the tao of physics," fritjof capra~~

~~~ "ishi in two worlds: a biography of the last wild indian in north america," theodora kroeber~~

tunes often played

[NOT an iPod owner ... i still own 100% of my soul]

~ nancy ajram: "habibi"
~ cheb mami: "meli meli"
~ maya nasri: "khalini biljao"
~ gnawa: "la llah" & "saadis vipes"
~ yasser habeeb: "elama"
~ sharif: "shiraz"

~~~ band-aid: "do they know it's christmas (feed the world)"~~

~~~ eurythmics: winter wonderland"~~

~~~ sting: "gabriel's message"~~

~~~ stevie nicks: "silent night"~~

~ louis armstrong: "what a wonderful world"

~~~ alison moyet: "the coventry carol"~~

~~~ whitney houston: "do you hear what i hear?"~~

~~~ bing crosby: " white christmas"~~

~~~ nat king cole: "chestnuts roasting on an open fire"~~

~ enya: "storms in africa" "orinoco flow [sail away]" & "now we are free [gladiator theme]"
~ sarah brightman: "captain nemo" & "once in a lifetime"
~ crew cuts: "sh-boom [life could be a dream]"
~ andrew sisters: "mr. sandman"
~ frank sinatra: "as time goes by"
~ cowboy junkies: "misguided angel" & "mining for gold"
~ alison krauss: "what'll i do" & "down to the river to pray"
~ vengaboys: ~~"shalala la" &~~ "we're going to ibiza"
~ lmc vs u2: "take me to the clouds above"
~ salt-n-pepa: "whatta man (shoop)"
~ george michael: "kissing a fool" ~~& "too funky"~~
~ klf ft black steel: "justified and ancient"
~ nelly ft kelly rowland: "dilemma"
~ alanis morissette: "everything" & "thank you"
~ swing out sister: "fooled by a smile" & "breakout"
~ jefferson airplane: "white rabbit"
~ beach boys: "kokomo" ~~& "good vibrations"~~