Tuesday, March 23, 2010

More Pictures from Mission Possible!

I love pictures so I will probably have many posts like this in the future...just pictures :) Included in this post are some from our Free Day (Denver Zoo and Red Rocks), and some from Escuela de Guadalupe and Safari Seconds (part of African Community Center).













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  1. BenSharpsonApril 30, 2010 at 11:21 PM

    Well, I'm very impressed.. and puzzled: No comments? No one ever commented on this blog, or do you delete them? The funny thing is that I was searching for bloggers who read "Home From Nowhere" and came upon your blog. Wondering if its the same book (hint: author is James Howard Kunstler).

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  2. Elyse BMay 1, 2010 at 2:51 PM

    haha no, I don't delete comments...but I haven't really told anyone I have a blog besides some family...who comment via phone calls, conversations, etc. :) I'm waiting until I'm actually serving in Peace Corps to tell people I have one.

    I did read Kunstler's "Home From Nowhere" and loved it! I read it for my Urban Politics and City Life political science course. What did you think of the book?

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  3. BenSharpsonMay 3, 2010 at 1:37 AM

    Wow! I have to have your phone number to comment on your posts? That's a new one. Oh... I don't have to have your phone number?.. I can comment here?.. your family phones you their comments?.. Gotcha.. Well: at least I am the very first one to comment here!

    Okay, joking aside, I'm waiting until you serve in the Peace Corps too. Only while I wait, I am already writing comments here. And to answer your question: I think the book was beautiful in articulating the many problems of our urban reality. Not so much for finding solutions, but that's okay: realizing and defining a problem precedes any solution.

    I read that book a long time ago along with others (if you care to know them, I'll list them to you). But it wasn't a course. I bought them on Amazon when they started their online business (wow, how time flies). I am very interested in actually finding solutions to our car-centric environment. The technological solutions are there and plentiful: even if we don't 'invent' anything new, we already have more than we need. The political and/or social willpower, however, is another thing.

    Well, don't want to turn my comment into a full fledged post. Unless you don't mind.

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