The Journey Installation

You can see pictures of the installation that Emma Thompson worked on with Bondage for Freedom here.

They're pretty powerful.

I love this melding of art and activism.

Emma Thompson's Journey

Someone wonderful showed me this video of an installation that Emma Thompson worked on with a survivor of sex trafficking in the United Kingdom. The train car installation was on display in Trafalgar Square in London In September 2007. This is a short video but it walks you through the journey into sex slavery in a very visual and impacting way.

Reason to believe

india and baseball

I just got an email from the Not For Sale campaign with a link to this article about child sweatshop laborers in Delhi, India. This particular raid was successful and the government has a plan to return the kids to their families and fund their education. Unfortunately, this is just a small success story in the middle of a much bigger problem. It is encouraging, though, to see that kids are not only being freed but are also being provided for.

On another note, the San Francisco Giant's pitcher Jeremy Affeldt has been working with Not For Sale and has committed to their Team Free2Play. You can show your support for Jeremy by voting for him through the All Stars Helping Kids organization.

Citrus-y words of wisdom

My tangerine-eating friend wrote some lovely words this morning:

I'm not ready to see it that way
and to understand it differently than
that the walls, when they come nearer,
mean that I am growing
until I break them open, free myself from their narrowness

- Klee

Oyster River

It was so easy, and the word's so sweet. You can't remember. You try to move your feet.

Home again, home again...

After a summer of searching, getting lost, difficult landlords, and worry over the cost of rent, I have moved into my first ever apartment. It's the third floor of a lovely house owned by a nice couple, the last of three houses on a long driveway off of Route 108. It's very cute, although a bit cold, and we had a little trouble making tea the first morning because the knob marked "front" turns on the back burner. But we now know that our smoke detector works, so I feel confident that if I ever forget to turn the stove off we will not burn the house down.

Here are some pictures: