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Noah Samara
Mentalacrobatics » TEDGlobal - The X Files Says:
June 25th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
".........A Radio!
You may have heard that due to the generosity of the Google and AMD each of the TED Global Fellows will soon be getting a new Mac or PC laptop. What you may not have heard is that due to generosity of Noah Samara from Worldspace each fellow is also getting a satellite radio and an annual Worldspace subscription. As you can imagine we went, as a famous Kenyan blogger would put it, bananas. But I quickly realised I was going bananas for a different reason from everyone else. All the other fellows are going nuts over the Macs (is anyone seriously choosing a PC?) But me, I was going bananas over the radio.
Walalala.
Satellite radio, for one year. Yani I can wake up at 3am and tune into what the good people of Papua New Guinea are up to? And I’ve always wondered what the theme music for radio news in Peru sounds like. Now I’ll know. On News Year Eve I’ll start listening from Time Zone 1 and check out how each time zone celebrates the New Year! Imagine how many countdowns I will catch! Yeah ok, Macs are cool, very very cool. Lakini, you guy, a radio with a ka small satellite dish, come on now, what is cooler than that! Seriously!........."
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Monday, January 14, 2008
The Magic of Buna: A Ferengi's Healing Ritual in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
[The author of the following article once has visited Ethiopia through peace corps. Not only that has she got passion to the cultural and the way of life of ethiopians in general, but also had such a unique way of explaining it. check it out what she had to say about the tipical & ritual coffee ( bunna) ceremony].
by LaDena “Serkalem” Schnapper (Dessie, Awassa 63–66)
Here I am making buna at home. Home? I have wandered the world the past 40 years and feel more at home in an Ethiopian gojo in Wollo than in the States. But my mother’s health was failing; she was alone. Ravaged by osteoporosis and a soon to be diagnosis of cancer, I felt obligated to care for her. How could I, the eldest daughter, not heed the flashing words of the Fourth Commandment blazing like a neon sign in my mind? So it came to be. I returned to my American birthplace, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the U.P. as it is called. Full circle.
It is through the coffee ceremony that I find solace, strength, and joy. No, it’s not the caffeine. (Did you know the Ethiopian arabica bean has less caffeine than the robusto bean used in American coffee?). I work as a mental health therapist. Daily I listen to people’s anguish, pain, fear, anger, loneliness and struggles of their suffering souls. After a week of work and caring for a sick mother, I deeply need to regenerate.
It’s the carrying out of the ritual, the enacting of the coffee ceremony, that allows renewal to occur. When performed with reverence and purposefulness, ritual creates a connection to a deeper energy field, be it earthly or spiritual. With intent and focus, I am able to move into this ancient custom practiced by hundreds of generations of Ethiopian women, draw the power I so desire and rejuvenate myself. Surely the Queen of Sheba herself made buna!
full article @ ethiopiaeritrearpcvs.org
by LaDena “Serkalem” Schnapper (Dessie, Awassa 63–66)
Here I am making buna at home. Home? I have wandered the world the past 40 years and feel more at home in an Ethiopian gojo in Wollo than in the States. But my mother’s health was failing; she was alone. Ravaged by osteoporosis and a soon to be diagnosis of cancer, I felt obligated to care for her. How could I, the eldest daughter, not heed the flashing words of the Fourth Commandment blazing like a neon sign in my mind? So it came to be. I returned to my American birthplace, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the U.P. as it is called. Full circle.
It is through the coffee ceremony that I find solace, strength, and joy. No, it’s not the caffeine. (Did you know the Ethiopian arabica bean has less caffeine than the robusto bean used in American coffee?). I work as a mental health therapist. Daily I listen to people’s anguish, pain, fear, anger, loneliness and struggles of their suffering souls. After a week of work and caring for a sick mother, I deeply need to regenerate.
It’s the carrying out of the ritual, the enacting of the coffee ceremony, that allows renewal to occur. When performed with reverence and purposefulness, ritual creates a connection to a deeper energy field, be it earthly or spiritual. With intent and focus, I am able to move into this ancient custom practiced by hundreds of generations of Ethiopian women, draw the power I so desire and rejuvenate myself. Surely the Queen of Sheba herself made buna!
full article @ ethiopiaeritrearpcvs.org
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
ethio prank call (Kombi Volkswagen)
yarada lij means anyone with a good heart. And the car dealer on the other end of the line is one perfect example of yechese yarada lij!!!
Monday, January 07, 2008
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Friday, January 04, 2008
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