January 2013
1 post
Screw The White Flag: A Kings Novel
So Lance doped, Manti was duped and sports comes out the loser, again.
As it is, we’re conditioned to believe in fairy tales. The fairy tale wedding, the fairy tale romance, the fairy tale ending. But sports, in particular, can’t resist a good fairy tale headline: the fairy tale comeback, the fairy tale underdog, the fairy tale story of the perseverance and triumph of the human...
March 2012
3 posts
“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us,...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson (via creatingaquietmind)
Part 1: Welcome to the Big Blue Nation. How'd I...
I don’t know how it happened. I loved my freshman year at Sonoma State. I didn’t really have any intentions of transferring until…I did. I’ll admit, I couldn’t have even pointed out Kentucky on a map until I landed in the Bluegrass state and immediately fell in love. All it took was one step out of our downtown Lexington hotel that sold me on my biggest life decision to date: the flower pots that...
The Water Is Black: My Dear Wormwood, →
Absolutely incredible. Jed is just another example of the brilliant, talented, creative, empowering and caring individuals that Invisible Children collects. Amazing, Jed. Thank you.
thewaterisblack:
I received your letter this morning and I must say I am not the least bit pleased. You brag and gloat that you got the face of the world’s largest youth movement to go mad. To tear off his clothes...
February 2012
2 posts
You really should follow our Austin Street Team...
ATX Bucket List
This is our first post and our first installment of our ATX Bucket List. We asked the good people of Facebook for bucket list items and have come up with the following (and added some of our own):
Swim in Hamilton Pool-Collapsed cavern-turned-natural-swimming-pool fed by a waterfall
Go kayaking (Town Lake and Lake Austin)
Attend Austin City Limits Festival
Attend SXSW music...
“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide...”
– —- Andy Warhol
A good reminder for creative souls. Never stop being creative and letting your mind go…so important to remember.
December 2011
3 posts
Long overdue and still not quite there...
I was asked to write a blog post for a girl who just started a blog about social change and getting involved to make a difference. She contacted our PR department asking if one of the roadies would be interested in writing about his/her experience on the road. I jumped at the opportunity when asked, but two things stood in my way…1) it was right in the middle of our intense, three week...
“I promise you not a moment will be lost as long as I have heart & voice to...”
– Story People
November 2011
3 posts
Who We Are
Via my BFF, Alex Alberico. AKA the word wizard.
We are roadies.
We are sons and daughters.
We are brothers and sisters.
We are friends.
We are a family.
We are the movers, the shakers and the world changers.
We are a culture; a new generation.
We are a movement.
We stand on the shoulders of giants, legends, anonymous extraordinaries.
We stand on a legacy.
We remember the past, embrace...
Beauty in the breakdown
This tour has been full of ups and downs. Drastic extremes of highs and lows. Endless To Do lists that I can never catch up on. Tests of strength, endurance, love, compassion, kindness, will, determination and countless more.
Today was both a summation and culmination of the past 8 weeks of tour…ending tonight in a pretty thorough mental, physical and emotional breakdown. Sitting just...
September 2011
7 posts
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Wayfaring New England back roads in the fall is akin to following the seductive stroke of an Indian paintbrush…the incessant, ever-winding stream of blacktop entangling us in flurries of the autumn paint drops as they reluctantly release from their increasingly barren captor and wistfully make their return to the earth which bore them…the artist’s palette is sprinkled with...
On this particular Tuesday...
I have two things…
Being fortunate enough to be in New England in the fall has made me realize there are not many things more beautiful than an autumn leaf’s graceful submission to gravity.
And I absolutely LOVE how quickly audiences fall in love with my brother just by watching a 45 minute film about his life. Even though I’ve seen his film well over 100 times, I never get...
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Before I sleep...
Last night was one of those tour memories that’ll stick with me for years to come. I drove the day shift yesterday-7 hours from San Diego to Tucson. Finally got some dinner and met up with a number of other teams at around 8 and was ready to get back in the van and sleep straight through the next 6 hours until we reach Las Cruces.
Instead, there was some van switching and I ended up in a...
If it's real, you'll feel it...
And so it begins, again. Less than three days until I’m back in that all-too-familiar, yet simultaneously disparate, mobile neon home.
The only qualm I have with this fairytale place is the fact that everything here is so painfully temporary…we are always just an inch removed from Utopia, it seems. People come and go; things change rapidly. You learn to love it in different seasons,...
August 2011
9 posts
Tour is suddenly so real...
In just over two weeks I’ll be in a van headed across the country (literally) to do this crazy (literally) thing all over again. In less than one week my newest teammate, Grace Nimaro, will be in San Diego. But before any of that happens, we still have 50 screenings to book. Summer seems like years ago and last tour feels like a weird adventure from a past life.
I.C. had each Ugandan...
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Time is short, but sweet for sure.
My love/hate relationship with this place only grows as the days swirl by like rogue calendar leaflets in a tornado. I love it in every sense of the word until the people I have fallen in love with leave in a sort of mass exodus.
First it was tour launch in which everyone took off in their own new portable neon world and scattered across the country. Then tour ended and there was an extravagant,...
“We have become blind to the alternatives to violence. This involves us in a sort...”
– Wendell Berry-“A Statement Against the War in Vietnam” an address at the University of Kentucky (10 February 1968)
July 2011
25 posts
“I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria...
fyeahafrica:
— Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
via strangers-seed
Audacity In An Inciting Incident
After finishing an amazing book called A Million Miles In A Thousand Years by Donald Miller yesterday, I had a lot of thoughts about the stories that we live and, in particular, the inciting incidents that we have in our lifetime. An inciting incident, as described by Miller and used, apparently, quite frequently in movie plot line talk, is a life-altering incident that changes forever the life of...
Enthusiasms: Flags →
dailymeh:
“There is hopeful symbolism”, Arthur C. Clarke wrote, “in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.”
In his piece about 9/11, David Foster Wallace noted that the day after, everyone had flags. Small flags, huge flags. Flags everywhere. Where everyone got their flags from was a mystery to…
So well said…
We are made of love
Saw this on someone else’s blog but couldn’t reblog it from them for some reason. I forget who I got this from, but thank you…
We gaze at the same skies and feel the rays of the same sun. We stand upon the same earth and raise our eyes to the same heaven.
We are both moments of brilliance in the eyes of God.
in the moment you realize that, you see that it’s worth it....
Watchletsgettogetherandtalk:
A beautiful tribute.
Mumford & Sons performing at the Invsible Children 25 event.
Much love to the IC community today.
A beautiful day to be a part of. No amount of Mumford lyrics can say what Nate has meant to the IC family. Beyond blessed to have two amazing friends in Tony and Lindsey who have been able to show me the type of person Nate was (and continues to...
“And he wondered out loud if the point wasn’t the search but the...”
– A Million Miles In A Thousand Years
“We get robbed of the glory of life because we aren’t capable of...”
– Donald Miller-A Million Miles In A Thousand Years 