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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Syria's Socially Mediated Civil WarThe United States Institute for Peace released a new and very important study on social media and the conflict in Syria last week, which I highly recommend to anyone using social media sources in their research, whether focused on Syria or other arenas.
Syria's Socially Mediated Civil War
The study raises some extremely important points about how structural biases in social media can distort our picture of events on the ground, and it introduces some important caveats that every journalism, academic and government researcher should keep in mind.
I also want to point out one limitation in the study's approach that should be considered when looking at its conclusions. The study's authors argue two key points about online communities:
But they can also lead to a misunderstanding about the strength of insularity and curation. While I agree these qualities are often not adequately accounted for in research, the analysis of retweets only (a focus dictated by reasonable practical obstacles in data collection on this scale) can make them appear more powerful than they are.
Based on my own ongoing research looking at smaller datasets, there are two Twitter relationship types that balance, to some extent, the bias toward insularity and curation, neither of which was examined in the study -- following and mentioning.
Although there are clear example of insular communities within different segments of the Syrian conflict's social media landscape, almost everyone involved in the conflict follows at least some people outside of those insular communities. That means they are being exposed to content that cracks the wall of insularity, even if they are not retweeting that content.
The question of whether those users are reading this content and integrating it into their worldviews (which is not the same as adopting the views represented in the content) can be gauged to some extent by mentions -- when people respond to the content, whether in agreement or disagreement. In smaller datasets, where collecting mentions and follow relationships can be done in a practical way, it's clear that very few users are wholly insular and that social media is introducing people to information that may differ from their assumptions about the world.
This dynamic is pretty clearly visible in the current fitna among Syrian jihadi groups, where angry and sometimes lengthy exchanges break through the wall of insularity as people mount arguments and defend allegiances. And we are only beginning to see how these challenges to insularity are creating a more "democratic" jihadi movement where dissent is aired publicly and leaders must for the first time compete for popular support from footsoldiers in the movement.
Curation, similarly, has dimensions that are not necessarily obvious without a deeper and more structurally complex examination of how content spreads. Curators are not necessarily the originators of content, and items can organically recommend themselves for curation based on how they are received at lower levels. While I agree curators and influencers are incredibly important, I would not credit them with power comparable to a newspaper editor or television producer. The latter are gatekeepers for institutions, the former are participants in a community exercise, even though some are more equal than others.
UPDATE: It occurs to me that a better way to describe my key question about curation is whether curated items are imposed from the top down (i.e., influencers pushing an agenda) or whether it functions from the bottom up (i.e., influencers reflecting the content they see as gaining momentum organically). The answer, of course, is that it's a little of both, with the balance shifting depending on the specific piece of content, and the behavior of each individual curator. So while curators are indeed power-brokers as far as what content reaches a large audience, many of them act more as amplifiers for messages which are already gaining traction organically.
It would be interesting -- and feasible -- to create a study that indicated which type of curator has the most power. My educated guess is that top-down curators drive more traffic on a daily basis, but true break-out content that goes wide and scores huge numbers tends to involve bottom-up curators. END UPDATE
That said, both curation and insularity are factors in how information is distributed, and they become more important when you are talking about journalists and researchers who simply wander into social media and begin using the sources as they find them, without necessarily understanding them in context. So the warnings in the study are well-taken, but they should be understood as one part of a massively complex picture.
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There are days.
We're tying up the loose ends of our break between school years, and time has been slippery-quick again. If I keep in mind that these weeks are just a soft blink, an exhale, then it feels okay that we're calling it a wrap.
Since late July, we've had extra time to visit students and schools in the valley. Talk slow hours with our Kijabe neighbors. Chip away at a hill of work/dorm/school projects. Write.
Todd spent the past week in Central African Republic. The kids and I did sleepovers with every stray blanket pulled to the living room, partly because I am no doubt a Super Fun Mom, and also I don't sleep well when Todd's gone. Put me in a room with people I need to protect and I'm somehow braver by necessity.
A few weeks back, our Kenyan friend Joseph asked Todd if we were headed anywhere fun over break. Mombasa, maybe, or the Mara—those two are common rest spots. When Todd laughed and said he was going to CAR, Joseph put a hand on Todd's shoulder. "CAR? Are you sure you want to go there?" It was just a few words, a parcel of honest syllables, but the translation was clear: My brother, you are losing your mind.
Maybe so.
CAR is a landslide of pain these days, bombings and executions and rogue militias exacting their own versions of justice. The capital city is a heap of burnt rubble patrolled by peacekeeping troops, blood on everyone's hands. It's hard to draw clear lines between victim and hero and terrorizer—everyone stands neck-deep in grief and starvation, life crumbling to dust around them.
Some of the attackers claim to be Christians, others Muslims. It makes my insides ache, but still I have to think there's a place for the grace and redemption of Jesus here.
Todd was in Zemio, a sleepy village bordering DRC. A large group of Mbororo live there, semi-nomadic cattle herders slowly working their way east. They value family and children and everything beautiful. They are our neighbors, and I hope someday our friends.
It's true that the violence needs to settle if we ever stand a hope of living in CAR, but more than this, people are suffering in huge, impossible ways. Please pray for the Central African Republic, for the Seleka and the Anti-Balaka and the LRA. For President Samba-Panza and the UN peacekeeping force and every unnamed refugee slipping scared between the fault lines.
It seems like too much from where I stand, but God is bigger still. Come move among us. Heal this land. Your love and peace and life and kingdom come.
after You.
Last Thursday we finally wrapped up the school year here at RVA. It's plain bizarre to live in a world where some of y'all are loading up school supplies in the same breath where we're falling over, relieved to have found the finish line.
So Thursday: I wish you could've stood right up next to me in the back of our chapel as our graduates walked in, euphoric. I wish you could've heard Mark Kinzer quote Jesus and Solomon, remind us all that the whole of our lives is meant for loving God and heaping up that love on the folks around us.
I wish you could've been there as Joseph recounted his years in this place, wrinkling this mother's heart with worry for the late evening he sprinted the length of an abandoned airstrip while hyenas cackled in the dark. I wish you'd have heard him admonish his classmates to grip these memories tight, because God's grace threads brightly through them.
I know your heart would've quickened with mine as Chris prayed for his class, that they'll live in light of Christ's sacrifice. And our throats would've swelled thick as the kids streamed out, leaping to smack the congratulatory sign at the back of the chapel, until it was Brenda's turn.
Brenda has a smile that could teach the sun a thing or two, and she's battled a host of health issues for so long, and has little use of her legs. At the close of the ceremony she skimmed the aisle on her crutches, and when she neared the back of the chapel two of the guys lifted her within reach. And though I'm sure it was just a few feet, for a moment there she hit that sign and floated higher than hope itself.
At this very second, our graduates are flung out across the globe–South Africa, Sweden, Tanzania, the States, South Korea, Uganda, Madagascar–and I want so much for the words they sang last week to be their souls' unflinching anthem.
Give me one pure and holy passion
Give me one magnificent obsession
Give me one glorious ambition for my life:
To know and follow hard after You.
Will you pray with us, please? That they will die for Him and live for Him, that they'll work and study and play and sing and type and garden and marry and breathe for a singular, undiluted purpose: to know Christ and to make His name famous wherever they go.
We're barreling toward midterm and I'm bone-weary and falling over, but mostly in a good way. My Amy-friend and I have been jogging, and let me just say: sweaty solitude does wonders for an introvert living with twenty-seven people. :) Saturday morning was ten miles of red dirt and juniper, the sky coming alive like a prayer in blue.
My dorm guys are my favorite. So are my art students. I just like them all so much, and it's a joy to be waist-deep in their jokey, high-pitched, awkward, honest everydayness. I let my eighth graders play music while they sketch and paint, and lately they've been kicking off class with Tony Bird's 'Mango Time.' Cracks me straight up.
So another one of our computer centers was robbed last month, and I just don't know. What degree of rapacity or desperation does it take to steal laptops from primary students? And it's the whole of the village that suffers in the end, because these kids, they're deft and certain and they're inching their families out of poverty one hour of school at a time.
I'm at a loss for answers here—better locks, more watchmen, replacement funding? Mostly I'm just praying for these guys to return the laptops, and I know that's all kinds of unlikely and impossible, but it's what I'm holding out for.
So I am the type of person who is prone to culinary, um, adventures, what with my tendency to believe every recipe will turn out JUST FINE even though I'm missing 40% of the ingredients and don't seem to have it in me to measure anything. The problem, of course, is that this method mostly works out, which only encourages me. But when it crashes and burns, that's actually even better, because that's where all the fun happens.
Sunday I was determined to make the sort of cafe con leche I fell madly for in Guaranda, and I vaguely remember—in a way that may or may not be made up—my South Americanish amigos mentioning that it was made with instant coffee concentrate. So I stirred up a sludge of concentrate, scalded a bunch of milk, spooned in brown sugar and: GREAT SCOTT. It was a thing.
It tasted, um, concentrated, by which I mean terrible, and I kept on drinking a bit, adding milk, drinking more, adding more milk, and it never really got better. The main thing that happened was heart palpitations, which is how you know you have some serious coffee going on.
Anyhow, if you stop by my place DO NOT let me serve you "Ecuadorian" coffee. I cannot be trusted.
One last story. A couple weeks back in Mai Mahiu, my cheeky little friends decided I needed them to braid my hair. They persuaded me down and then no less than sixteen hands descended upon my scalp, twisting and weaving and pulling—so much with the pulling—until finally it was time to pray and go and they reluctantly let me up again. When I recount these things I know it's cute, but please balance that with the reality of grimy palms that smell unmistakably of urine.
But I got home and worked out the last few tangles and just couldn't bring myself to wash out the tight, electrocuted ripples left behind by their braiding. My hair, mothered within an inch of its life, looked strangely beautiful for the very first time in ever.
And just like that, I'm undone.
Once upon six months ago, dear pastor-friends of ours emailed with a crazy proposal: Our church is sponsoring a child survival program in Ecuador and we're fixing to go meet the families. We need a photographer-writer along, so um, Nicki? What do you think?
What did I think? I thought it was the most far-fetched and wonderful idea, and that the odds of me going were zero to never. But somewhere between then and April God aligned all those impossible cogs until I found myself on a Nairobi to Amsterdam to Atlanta to Quito tilt-a-whirl of flights.
The face of the fellow checking tickets at Jomo Kenyatta creased deep with concern. "You are flying by yourself, Miss?" (PS I do not know when I will get to graduate to a Ma'am. Someone slapped 'Miss' on me eons ago and I can't seem to peel it off.)
"Yep," I told him. "Just me."
"By yourself?" he repeated, like maybe this time I'd answer more appropriately. Even his eyebrows worried at me.
I smiled at him. "I'll be fine."
I thought about explaining that actually I'm not the tiniest bit by myself. I'm traveling with the God who fashioned and reigns over each cubic inch of airport and city and airspace between here and infinity, and also? He owns every one of my days.
Even if that plane goes down flaming, I'll be fine.
Our planes turned out flame-free, and Ecuador was a beautiful experience. Those kiddos and moms and dads and grandmas and aunties–it was the best kind of everything to begin to know them, to stand in the dusk of their homes and listen to the lilt of Spanish unfurling their stories like open palms.
I loved the mountain roads spooling from Guaranda to Chillanes, the trickle-down towns, the clouds twisting over nooks and fields like fairytaled mist.
Also: our gutsy, funny bus driver. Community bowls of perfectly limey ceviche. The rush of damp and chill through the window, the drive-by photography and the nearly falling out. Gas station swing dancing. Boys spinning tops in the churchyard with lengths of string and luck. My hysterical, gifted, earthy, Jesus-scented teammates, and all those Compassion folks working daily with excellence.
I'll be sharing more here in small chunks, one story each month for the next year or so. (My job is to connect folks at Epic Church in Indiana with families in Chillanes, but y'all are more than welcome to read along. Please do.)
Chillanes, you are my favorite. You're treasure buried in clouds and moss, home to people so dear to God's heart. It's a wonder to see His love awakening in you.
So let it be.
Infinitely sweet.
It's been Small Wildlife Month at Chez Owens, first with a tree frog in our bananas, then a mouse racing fat and terrified around the kitchen counter.
Now thousands of flying ants have descended upon campus, plague-like, fluttering out brief lives before doffing their oversized wings and seizing belly-up on the floor. Our guys left the dorm windows open last night to the tune of five hundred small visitors, which ended in a late-night snack of fried and buttered ants. Because, naturally.
(Discarded ant wings)
In other news, I have not been able to exercise for like three days now, as my knee is inflamed or annoyed or something-or-othered, but the highlight of this story is I managed to tell my coworker about it in Swahili. Monday, I was running down there on Barn's trail, and I fell and now I have pain in my knee. You have no idea how delighted I was to find I have the vocabulary to say this unfortunate thing.
On the less-delighted side, not exercising makes me itchy and restless and I am more or less grumping around the house right now. It's really too bad you're all not here to enjoy it.
Friday Kenya Kids Can was invited to attend an academic celebration, and PEOPLE. That thing was so much fun.
They sat us front and center, guests of honor at this first-ever Longonot awards ceremony, and with all the stops pulled out: balloons, poetry, song calling, cascades of faux flowers. Hundreds of students packed the courtyard, whooping as their schools were announced and trophies bestowed. Highest performer. Best in the district.
It's the kind of thing that makes you want to dance.
I'm guessing that not that many years back, when hunger numbed even our brightest minds and student performance lay frail and unmoving, it was hard to scrape up something to celebrate. But Friday the applause thrummed deep and those beautiful, capable kiddos bobbed and whirled and leapt like they're made of so much light.
Mark was given the chance to speak, and he said it well, what he always says, what Steve always said before him: It's not me. This is so much bigger than me; I'm standing here representing a whole bunch of people all over this earth who love God and love you and who find quiet joy in knowing you're eating and learning. People who believe you have bright things to offer this world, and who'll shoulder mountains aside to see that happen.
You should've seen these students dance, and this one gal in particular with her chin angled, eyes blazing, so proud to be Maasai and beautiful and strong and educated and ready. So absolutely ready.
I don't know about everybody else, but the way I saw it, all that cheering and stomping aimed a straight shot to heaven. They were peals of glory thundered back to our Creator, rising hot from our dust to the One who is the Bread of Life, who meets our soul-hunger with nothing less than Himself.
I'll be the first to tell you that not every day sings this bright. Some days feel flat and ordinary, or downright challenging, but in all the betweens God keeps our faith alive and trembling. He keeps us close. He keeps us.
And all the while He shows up true and infinitely sweet.
Valentine's Day
The road twisting down from campus to the valley floor cracks me up every time. We braved that bumpy guy again last Friday, a small crew of us riding out with Mark to visit a couple schools, and as our teeth rattled in place Mark joked, "You know, lots of people pay money for seats that shake."
We arrived at the first school as the kids were washing up for lunch, scrubbing small hands under a ribbon of water poured from jerry cans. Kitchens here are wooden structures set apart from the bulk of the school, and this one featured a trio of pots boiling up heaps of githeri.
I am in love with how the smallest folk line up, pressed belly to back in a human chain that keeps inching closer to the food. Nearly every child wielded a bowl, though the few without asked a friend to grab a double portion to share.
It's a graceful thing, the choreography of lunch: a step forward, two hands extending, a lifted bowl, a happy scuttle off to the shade to eat.
After lunch we rolled on out again into that dry sweep of grassland. It took us a while to find the second school, mostly because we spent a couple hours looping circles in the bush, pretending to not be lost. At one point we four-wheeled-it through a pond, and Mark and Rachel (one of our teachers) disembarked more than once to consult the directional expertise of several Maasai herdsmen.
[Sidenote: The cows here are crazy cute. Forget the pony, I want this guy.]
The third herdsman we happened upon spoke with Rachel awhile, scrawling maps in the dirt with his stick. When that didn't seem to un-lose us, he jetted off, inexplicably, into the scrub and acacia.
I'd picked out the words peleka and mbuzi and huko, so I asked Rachel: "Did he say something about delivering goats over there? Because this is what I'm getting out of the conversation." She was kind enough to not answer.
We waited while our new herdsman-friend did some possible goat delivery, and a few minutes later he jogged back and hopped in the car to serve as our personal guide.
This time we found the school.
At Najile, Mark and Rachel checked supplies and handled the logistics of lunches and computer education while the rest of us trailed the students to an exercise field. The girls were up first, racing and skipping laps around the loose soccer pitch, then fanning out to play a match.
They have a distinctive style of play, these girls, jumping as they kick, the crowns of their heads nearly scraping blue from the sky.
It amazes me that these are the same kiddos who used to sit listless and drawn. Don't ever doubt it, my friends: day after day of food can tip a world right again.
Do you have any idea how much fun it is to be your hands and feet and faces and solid shoulders and grins in this place?
My nine year old, she walks around the house humming Rend Collective, and there's this bit that makes me think of all of you:
We seek Your kingdom first
we hunger and we thirst
refuse to waste our lives
for You're our joy and prize
To see the captive hearts released
the hurt, the sick, the poor at peace,
we lay down our lives for Heaven's cause
We are Your church
We pray revive
this Earth
Oh, friends. Thanks for loving just like this, and for giving us the best Valentine's Day yet.
The whole school has turned out to see us, kicking up dust as they dance and wave us in. We climb from the car into a river of children with smiles bleached white in the three o'clock sun.
It's Wednesday, and Todd and I have tagged along with our friend Mark to open a solar-powered computer center at a school smack dab in what Kenyans call The Interior–undeveloped land, mile upon mile of scrub brush and dirt and sheep.
I've never known a warmer welcome, pressed in by kids half silly, half shy, all clamoring for a handshake. After several minutes of greetings and paperwork, we arrive at my favorite part–unboxing ten donated laptops and settling them into a steel classroom planted in a sun-parched square of the Great Rift Valley.
But let me back up a bit. This story began long before us with a fellow named Steve:
Once upon a time, in the wake of enormous personal loss, Steve moved his family to Africa to live and work at RVA for a year. As these stories often go, they fell in love with Kenya and her people, and one year swelled into fourteen. Early on he saw kids in a nearby school laid flat by hunger, so he started a simple lunch program: maize and beans boiled plump for every student, every day.
Kids started doing something new: they started showing up at school, armed with plastic bowls, not about to miss that sure-thing meal. And then they started learning.
Fast forward fourteen years and this lunch program feeds about twenty thousand students in our area's poorest national schools. On top of that, Steve began a computer program with donated laptops and converted shipping container classrooms, because now that kids are eating and growing and graduating, we hope they just might need to type up a resume.
One might ask–in a setting too remote for power lines, why bother with computers? There are so many reasons, some lofty, some pragmatic, and they all whittle down to one thing: possibility. Many of these children hail from families fierce in their determination for them to grow beyond this dry boned existence, to someday secure employment in a town or city.
As one grade seven student told Mark, "I have never touched a computer before." But now she will; she'll master keyboarding and the basics of Word, Excel, Power Point. She'll be able to construct a business proposal, chart sales, maybe draft a medical report. And I have so much hope for her, that she can show up capable and competitive in this increasingly digital world; that she'll know she's a force to be reckoned with.
The smallish students seem more energized by an up-close encounter with us pale folk than the computer center itself, but then there's class seven and eight. And the teachers and parents–their faces light with the laptop screens, reflecting back everything bold they dream for these kids.
It's quite an afternoon: singing and pictures and children patient with my limping Swahili. Then tea with the school board and teachers. A prayer spoken still and warm, and the head teacher scraping back his chair to speak. First he references the lunch program: "I am so glad for the food so the children do not have the feeling of hunger in their stomachs. So even when they go home and maybe they do not eat, they can persevere until the next day."
And then the chairman adds his part, his arms circling wide as he heaps blessings over all of us and especially you who give with joy and openness and care. I make a close study of my tea, blinking hard until my vision clears.
By the time we pack up it's skimming early evening and the school stands empty, save for dust clouds blooming in the hot wind. And all I can think is thank You, God. I have little to do with the good that happened here, but thank You for a chance to bear witness to one simple, sturdy way to share this sweet life together. For allowing me this afternoon, the lively company of these kids. For the chance to plug into something bright and wild with possibility.
The valley slips into a bath of buttery light and we head home, caked in sweat and dirt and so much unsinkable hope.
Not in Kansas anymore.
First thing in the morning, we flick on lamps and part curtains to catch the sun's waking. And never mind if it lets in birds and the occasional wayward monkey, we swing those glass panes wide to the rush of mountain wind.
Morning is the best time here. I solemnly swear that if you visit me I will shake you alive at the crack of before-dawn, and you will briefly hate me (unless you are The Ununcle, who invented rising early), but then we'll walk with the clouds at our feet and the earth soaking in color and I promise your insides will be liquid worship of the God who dreams up this life.
Our oldest boy turned sixteen this month, and I forced a birthday photo shoot on him because these are the things that cause me great joy. If he were in the states he'd be up to scary enterprises like driving an actual car, but here he has no license, no family vehicle to beg after, and nowhere to go. Living in Africa has its perks.
He's a great kid, easy and half-shy and all about taking care of people. He's the one who made us think, for a blessed two years, that we are mavens at this parenting thing. (And then our second child arrived on the scene, and we were all, Oh. Right. Carry on, then.)
When B was two we were wandering the aisles of a craft store and he was playing with a sponge cut into a starfish, which I made him return to the bin. He did it right away, though with profound sadness, and ten steps later I was like, Ohmyword, Nicki, it's a quarter. Buy your kid the starfish sponge.
I'd give all the quarters I'll ever own to see his face wash golden with delight like it did then.
Last week we signed out the school car and drove to Nairobi for the first time, and it was Fun Times Everywhere. First off, all sides of the road feel equally wrong to me right now, which is actually okay because in Kenya your designated lane is the path around potholes. If that happens to coincide with the left side of the road, more power to you.
I feel like I spent the whole drive awarding Certificates of Crazy: Mr. Let's-pass-two-trucks-on-a-blind-curve—you are crazy; and you, Sir, with the couch strapped to your piki are crazy; and you running your wheelbarrow across the highway: certifiable.
Also, intersections. We do not believe in traffic lights and stop signs in these here parts. Pretty much every intersection in the city looks like six and a half angles of traffic in an eighteen-foot square. The trick is to nose your way in so that oncoming vehicles are forced to either stop or hit you, and then you pray vehemently for the former.
This Christmas we didn't have a tree or anything sparkly or blinking, but a friend of ours wove a wreath of greens, and we cut snowflakes and paper stars. Plus you know you're not in Kansas anymore when you rejoice over Twix bars and gum and your fifth grader puts 'a bag of carrots' on his wish list.
We read from Luke 2 (For my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the sight of all nations: a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel) and played games and piled up in the living room to watch a movie. It was a good day.
The highlight of this December was getting packages of sweet things from our church family back in the freezingest parts of Indiana, and Christmas cards from so many of our favorite folks. We have your smiling faces and notes on our computer screens and strung along our fireplace mantel.
One of our teens wrote Todd a card that still makes me laugh: "I hope you have seen an elephant and a lion and a cheetah. If you haven't you're living in Africa wrong."
Goodness, I miss you people. We had no snow and no tinsel and no peppermint creamer (alas), but we positively had a Savior to celebrate. Hopefully we did Christmas right.
Come, O long-expected Jesus,
Born to set your people free;
From our fears and sins release us
By your death on Calvary.
Israel's strength and consolation,
Hope to all the earth impart,
dear desire of every nation,
Joy of every longing heart.
(Charles Wesley)
Love you all, so much. Merry Christmas.
it's been an odd day all around.
thanksgiving, for us, has generally involved family and peeling potatoes and too many hours + kids in a car. but this was just a normal day in africa, with its docket of classes, meetings, dorm scrubbing, and a campus in full-swing.
we're nearing the end of term, and life has become the kind of frenetic where it's best i operate about one hour into the future: i just need to worry about my walking my class through their final projects. then: i just need to survive my swahili final. nimesoma kiswahili kwa bidii kwa sababu ninajaribu kuweza kuongea na watu hapa.
(sidenote: it's like that dream, where i'm back in high school and i can't remember my locker combination and i JUST realized i haven't gone to chemistry the whole semester, and i cannot for the life of me figure out where we keep the science building. except i never did wake up relieved from this one.)
then: i just need to figure out the menu for tonight's smallish gathering. i just need to walk down to the dukas to grab last-minute flour and sugar. i just need to get dinner and dessert around. i just need to pull the laundry down and quick-clean the house. and so forth, edging forward in fits and starts until at last we fall into sleep.
(sidenote nambari mbili: so tonight i went to bed at the ripe hour of 9:30 because it was just that kind of day, and so now it is 2:36 ayem and i am spectacularly awake. this post is brought to you by the surprise gift of insomnia.)
but back to thanksgiving.
there's so much that has caught me just right this past year. so much that is richer and clearer and more. and God keeps startling me with the chance to stretch beyond myself, to reach and be reached for, and it just never gets old, you know? He's ever the best and hardest and most consuming love i've got, and he keeps me. in direct spite of my fickle and traitorous heart, he keeps me.
i'm so glad.
praising Him in the small hours of the night:
for relentless grace
for electricity and plumbing in rural kenya
for folks to share life with
for eggs and chickens and milk
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last saturday, while the morning was sloughing its soft skin of sleep, braden and i headed out to photograph our haunts for you. i've shown you bits of campus, but i feel like you've been missing out on our larger neighborhood.
here we go.
when we head downhill from the main gate, this is the first little intersection we meet. (i used to look both ways before crossing the street, but i've since learned that anything large enough to do me damage will rattle and shudder from a quarter mile off.)
most days i turn left where the road spiders off toward the dukas (stores). by the time we work past those leggy pines, at least twenty people have said hello from the street. folks walk a lot here, and we've all got dust climbing our ankles.
this building with the flaming door is the place i buy produce for the week. it smells of must and earth. we were too early on this particular morning, but usually i circle the dim interior and pile up potatoes, blushing romas, green beans–purchasing an equal amount from each lady.
but back to the door for a sec. i love how this is a thing here, adorning cinder-block with an entrance the color of fire or sky.
walking on a bit, we hit the supa duka (first door in the red building), impeccably run by sarah and sammy. i mostly buy flour, sugar, blue band (margarine), and sometimes bread and red plum jam. sammy jokes with us about cannibals, and sarah tells me about the antics of her son, who turns two at the end of this month.
three shops down (green door, red umbrella) is mama chiku's, a pint-sized eatery where we get samosas–some four dozen in one go–for our dorm guys. the samosas are savory with just the right chili kick, and mama chiku herself is about the sweetest person south of the equator.
if we circle back and head downhill, we pretty much trip over the post office. i have not yet braved the postal service, as i haven't gotten a straight story on whether or not my mail will manage to find its way out of kenya.
but i'm determined to try it soon. possibly.
following the downward slip of dust and rock, we arrive at kijabe hospital, which for all its humble trappings harbors some of the finest medical staff in the nation.
also down this way but unphotographed–a children's hospital that treats ambulatory needs, several schools, a college educating african pastors from a dozen countries.
i'm not sure when a place stops feeling new and starts being home. i'm not sure if we're there yet. but the students look like mine and our dorm boys are mine and the neighborhood feels like we belong to it. this seems like a beginning, at least.
there's so much to love here, and i find that's true everywhere we've lived…that God is there too, bright and fierce and redeeming.
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CAPE CORAL, Fla. -- This week a Cape Coral home known for its Halloween spooks and decorations burned. Firefighters say the home's electrical system was overwhelmed.
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In the wake of this tragedy, this family says celebrating Halloween is a chance for them to try and get their lives back to normal.
On Monday, a fire destroyed this home at 925 SE 4th Place causing about $150,000 in damages. The family can't live here, they are now spending time in a hotel. But you'll see them out on Halloween night!
They say the show must go on in this Halloween tradition that's lasted a decade. "It gives everybody a sense of..there was disaster but you can go on. We lost quite a bit. But we survived.and we just want to continue," said homeowner Debbie Yasbeck.
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Recognising the need for an emerging economy to have a tax system that reflects best global practices, the finance minister announced in his Budget speech a proposal to set up a Tax Administration Reform Commission (TARC), which would be tasked to review the application of tax policies and tax laws, and recommend measures to strengthen the capacity of India's tax system.
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The setting up of the TARC and the Wednesday meetings should be seen as aspects of the overall tax administration policy of the government and it will be surprising if they are ends in themselves. A closer examination of this supposed broader tax administration policy brings one face to face with the overarching philosophy of 'non-adversarial' model of tax administration.
Everybody wishes to have a 'non-adversarial tax administration' and it embraces all other aspects, namely clarity in law, stability of regime and fair dispute resolution mechanism. For it is only when the administration has at least these three good attributes does it command respect of the taxpaying public and only then can it become 'non-adversarial'.
In international tax terminology there is usage of the terms 'collaborative approach' or 'cooperative approach' of tax administration. This is currently being considered by many jurisdictions as the right approach to follow for improving the efficacy and efficiency of tax administration. For example, the recently published Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) report of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) notes "…a clear trend in relationship between tax administrations and large businesses away from a purely adversarial model towards a more collaborative approach."
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NFL legend Warren Moon is apparently a Miami Heat fan. So much so that when someone approached him with the opportunity to not only buy courtside tickets but also a 5 percent stake in the team, Moon jumped on the deal and transferred $200,000. Turns out the whole thing was a scam, and Moon didn't ev ... More >>
We know that if you threaten the safety of a local police officer, they will probably shoot you. If you instruct your dog to attack them, they will probably shoot the dog. So it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise by now that a bizarre traffic stop that went out of control left one homeless man ... More >>
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Favorite uses for lemon pepper?
- fldhkybnva Jul 11, 2013 05:15 PM
I am new to lemon pepper and it's fabulous. What are your favorites uses?
I haven't used it in a few years but my late MIL and then all the rest of us made a crab "spread," not a dip. Take a can of crab, squeeze it as dry as you can in your hands, add lemon pepper, chopped scallions and just enough mayo hold it together. As I said, it's a spread, not a dip. Super simple but everyone loved it. I just kinda burned out on it so haven't made it in ages.
My fav dinner is Lemon-Pepper Pork Chops, get the thick cut chops, use LP sparingly and leave on for an hour or up to 4 hours. You will grill the chops for best flavor but they can be pan sauteed as well. I like to serve it with yellow rice (saffron rice) and either green beans or sauteed zuchinni (sliced zuchinni with LP on it also). A big green salad is also nice with some garlic bread or cheese biscuits.
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Oh yeah, forgot that its really good on zucchini too.
Sautéed beet greens(beet tops) and other bitter greens-kale,chard......a little evoo & pat of butter and Lowry's Lemon Pepper....yum !!
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The plan is roasted asparagus tonight. We usually sprinkle Parmesan with olive oil, salt and pepper but maybe I'll try the lemon pepper.
I use it for roasted vegetables...drizzle EVO, sea salt, lemon pepper.
Fresh fish and when doing app's of triscuits with cream cheese with halved heirloom tomt's and I will spritz some lemon and lemon pepper.
In a (non-authentic) bloody Mary: tomato juice, lemon pepper, Worcestershire, hot sauce, celery flakes. Oh, and a splash of vodka if it's not a school night.


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Director Jean Cocteau's gorgeous film adaptation of the classic fairy tale is as magical and enchanting as any motion picture fantasy ever made. Jean Marais portrays the fearsome creature, who falls in love with a merchant's lovely young daughter, exquisitely played by Josette Day. With the invocation of "once upon a time," the Poet of French Cinema truly delivers an unforgettable romance. (Fully subtitled)
Director: Jean Cocteau
Cast: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair, Raoul Marco, Marcel André
MPAA Rating: NR
Run Time: 1hr 34mins
Release Year: 1946
Country Of Origin: France