Spain pictures are uploaded! Here are some trip highlights with links:
- Touring the Royal Palace.
- Madrid-at-night tapas crawl (hope there’s a Facebook pic I can grab soon).
- First Castillian-translated edition (circa 1450) of Maimonedes’ “Guide to the Perplexed.”
- Kids and snow (movie) in Segovia.
- Al-hambra fortress at Granada was ridiculously amazing. First, the gardens (movie/pic). Next the intricate architecture. Also, the ceilings. And finally, the scale of the entire structure.
- Sevilla’s Alcazar gardens and view from the minaret.
- The synagogue at Cordoba’s wall designs.
- World class Flamenco dancing in Cordoba. Literally, we saw the world champion perform — v. cool.
- The Great Mosque in Cordoba, that’s now a Cathedral, but still has Roman influences.
- Toledo’s enviro-escalators and synagogue-that-looks-like-a-mosque.
- Scape-goating the intolerant Christians.
- And of course: the awesome people and leaders!
Aaron,
Unlike you, I’m just waking from my 3 year post Dean hibernation. Is it just me? Or is the world even crazier than when I first entered the cave for a brief snooze?
I seemed to have lost the link you put up a few months ago that connected to your canvassing kit preparation program. Is it still out there on the web? I sure would appreciate it if you could send it to me. I’m in the process of trying to fire up the brain synapeses.
While in hibernation I have been pondering the possibilities of organizing people’s social network (who isn’t). Everyone these days sees the possibilities but few seem to know how find the “influentials”, develop a bond with them, and then persuade them bring their network into the fold.
With this circling my unconscious the past three years I have been pondering variations of the traditional canvass: the bike canvass, the reverse canvass, the canvass without canvassers, and the purely theoretical (at least at this point) the silent/naked cavass.
Hope all is well.
Marc Herbert
PS I didn’t know how else to reach you, So after I stumbled across your website I figured this was as good as any method.
Marc!
Great to hear from you. I’m sending you an email since my reply has non-bloggable information and so you get my email address.
~Data