Simulating Poverty – Down and Out in Paris and London

http://www.refugee-run.org/ Exercises like the above beg the question, how far does one have to go before empathizing with a whole section of the world if they have to simulate a refugee run. I personally think it is demeaning and ostentatious. It is not so much the fact that the refugee has to rely on charity that is... Continue Reading →

January 24, 2016 2

No One Writes To The Colonel

A very short read but curiously took me as much time to read as 100 Years of Solitude. Poverty is Corrosive The effect of the colonel's daily walk is ritualistic. The walk down the road is always a bridge between crises. A small window of solace in an otherwise dreary world. To the Colonel the wildly fluctuating... Continue Reading →

July 16, 2015 1