- Many, many Bo Jangles restaurants
- gourds used as bird houses
- abandoned, run down houses
- lots of American cars
- mobile-home type houses with a lot land
Boats dry-docked along the river (presumedly because the winter freeze causes damage, vs. California where boats are always in water)
Not many non-white or non-black folks)
- what industries sustain average person here? And at what average income?

Weather at Cape Lookout NC was pretty unsavory for beginners due in part to unusual tides caused by the crazy moon we had last night. Something to do with gravitational pulls and all. Not completely unplugged...yet..but will be after tomorrow's 530AM wake up call. The plan: utilize as much daylight as possible to make up for the lost day on the island.

I'm definitely enjoying the chance to use my tent and waking up in the morning, emerging from the little dome of a tent into the fresh air of a new day.

Awesoooome....

“This book is a mountain: it is impossible to measure it or even to see it properly except at a distance.” –Victor Hugo, in an argument with his publisher

My lolo (tagalog for “grandfather”) had read the book repeatedly while my mother was growing up in the Philippines. I never met him (he passed away before our visit when I was 10), but felt closer to him after and while I read this book. I used to imagine the words of wisdom and experience that perhaps he might have shared with me, had we the opportunity to dialogue, despite the 71 years that stood between us.

New translation: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article4816401.ece

I read this over the course of a year...but had restarted it several times over the years because of its sheer size. Given it took 20 to write, not too shabby. It was indeed mountain, that I repeatedly tried to scale, and finally did. The new translation is 100,000 words more?! The version I have was already 1200+ pages!!! Looks like a challenge to revisit that “mountain.”

The thought occurred, rather was asked, regarding social networks today at the HCIL lecture. Is it is possible to mobilize people the easier via tweets, feeds, text message. Is it the same? How strong is the connection between followers and "friends?" what difference is there in the limited depth of communication in a tweet, versus email, versus news article. Do the new channels of communication enhance or displace our traditional social framework? looking at Iran, twitter had little to inside the country, but then look at Tunisia and Egypt...what are the implications of shorter and shorter communication that accompany the same if not more actions. Where is the dialogue? I kinda miss phone calls, but now, like this blog, we air it out to the masses for all who choose to listen. In this case, I invite no other action but to think. Breath. Think. Repeat...

Because thought is spontaneous and ever fleeting in an age of overflowing inboxes and conflicting calendars, here is an attempt to post from mobile phone in an effort to capture thought as it occurs throughout the day. Welcome, Bienvenue, Afio Mai!