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On Friday, I went to Burma (or Mynamar as it's now known) on a visa run. (My visa was good for 30 days and it was about to expire.) Part of me felt guilty giving my crisp $5 bill... ›››
Category: Global Lens | Social Enterprise | Tsunami
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The BBC has audio interviews related to the tsunami and relief efforts on December 27th. You can listen here (download now as it's online only through January 3rd). I was half-asleep as might be evident ;-) as I believed... ›››
Category: Social Media | Tsunami | Weblogs
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Are you Millie or Tia? I ask the elegant blond woman in pink tank top, pink skirt, and pink cap. I'm leafing through a 2006 desk calendar that is a fundraiser for the Millie and Tia Sunflower Nursery. Those...... ›››
Category: Innovators and Creators | Social Enterprise | Tsunami
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When tsunami volunteer Niyarm Chivawattansukul, a carpenter from Narathiwat, approached Ban Tub Tawan to help in a housing project in February, his original plan was to make ordinary house to replace those destroyed by the disaster. But after a... ›››
Category: Deep Hanging Out | Innovators and Creators | Participatory Marketing | Tsunami
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Chinese giftpaper wrapped narrow boxes stretch and float on the black ink pool. Squid fishing boats in the distance shine like the flashlights in the tangle of the jungle. The absence of whirring speedboats echoes in the tender kiss... ›››
Category: Awareness | Mind Training | Resiliency | Tsunami
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I briefly met Bazuki the other day at the Christmas Day ceremonies with the twenty-one Buddhist forest monks. He and Ed both work for Reuters, and they are among the very few journalists and photographers I've been impressed with.... ›››
Category: Innovators and Creators | Storytelling | The Greater Hunger | Tsunami
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Photos from yesterday and today's One Year in Memory of Tsunami ceremonies on Phi Phi Island, Thailand, which a Bangkok Post reporter tells me was this country's hardest hit island. It's nearly midnight now and December 26th is coming...... ›››
Category: Global Lens | Storytelling | Tsunami
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I spend an inordinate time at the press center organized by PhiPhi26community.com today uploading photos. From this vantage point at the Phi Phi Inn, which was also generously converted into a temporary medical center earlier this year until the... ›››
Category: Resiliency | Storytelling | Tsunami
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We stood for a minute of silence at 10:15 a.m. this morning. Later after the deputy prime minster has spoken, we file towards the bay. A six or seven-year old blond girl with a white sundress gently bows and... ›››
Category: Awareness | Resiliency | Storytelling | Tsunami
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It's Worldwide Remembrance Week, December 26-January 1. Use your blogs, your home pages, your wikis, your newsletters. Link to your favourite charities and NGOs, write a paragraph about them and the work they are doing, and ask your readers... ›››
Category: Social Enterprise | Social Media | Tsunami
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I wake in the morning and peek through the mosquito netting and straight through the wide slats in the bamboo hut. My line of sight ahead is above the rooftop terrace bungalows where guests slept alfresco on the evening... ›››
Category: Resiliency | Storytelling | Teachable Moments | Tsunami
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Papa Holland lent me a book written in 1965 by a US Foreign Service wife who ends up teaching at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok while her husband is stationed in Thailand. It's amazingly culturally relevant even today, and especially... ›››
Category: Awareness | Belief Systems | Social Media | Storytelling | Tsunami
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In Krabi I picked up Time Asia, six of the sixteen Best Photos of 2005 were of disaster (including shots from the Indian Ocean tsunami, Katrina, and the Pakistan/India earthquake). Time quotes Susan Sontag: Narrative can make us understand,... ›››
Category: Awareness | Innovators and Creators | Storytelling | Teachable Moments | Tsunami
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Papa Holland lent me a book written in 1965 by a US Foreign Service wife who ends up teaching at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok while her husband is stationed in Thailand. It's amazingly culturally relevant even today, and especially... ›››
Category: Awareness | Belief Systems | Social Media | Storytelling | Tsunami
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