Tag archive: Preemptive Love Coalition
Mohammad Star’s Follow-Up
If you all haven’t had a chance to read my post about Mohammad Star on the Preemptive Love blog, check it out now: click!
Baghdad
Last Friday I met an girl named Shahoda who’s a university student in our city. She’s one of the first Arabs I’ve met since being here, which immediately piqued my curiosity. I got lunch with her, Claire, Elise and Sarah… continue reading »
Hi, I’m a narcissist
I am a narcissist. After my Media and Society paper about narcissism on Facebook, I realized that I have all the tell-tale signs of a narcissist. I talk about myself. I am frustrated when people don’t honor me the way… continue reading »
Meeting Honya and Mohammad
After Preemptive Love sends kids into heart surgery, they continue to check up on them through a program called FollowThrough. This program allows PLC to make sure the kids are adjusting to life, are healthy, and so on. Thursday Claire,… continue reading »
To be human
people are just peoplethey shouldn’t make you nervousthe world is everlasting, it’s coming and it’s going — People are just people. I read in George Orwell’s “The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius” that people are not… continue reading »
Goforth
Hi, friends, from Sulaymaniyah. As you know from my last two posts, I started my Preemptive Love Coalition internship a few days late. (Thanks, Delta.) Tuesday was my first day; Wednesday was my first day in the office. I love… continue reading »
Turkish Delight
I’m writing this in Sulaymaniyah, but I’m going to pretend I’m writing this from Istanbul. I’ll post my first-day-in-Iraq blog when I get to it. Perhaps when the Internet consistently works. (Come on, Lappy.) — The flight to Greece was,… continue reading »
Georgia peach
“We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all. We sleep to time’s hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if we ever wake, to the silence of God.” Annie Dillard — I am supposed to… continue reading »
Remedy Mission
I’m going to be in Iraq in three days. I’m not going because I’m trying to make a stand for some abstract cause. I’m not going because I see myself as a 21st century expatriate or a hippie or an… continue reading »
… and overcomes conflict to get it.
I go home Wednesday – I’m halfway through college. I’m terrified; I’m sad. I love college – especially the learning – and I don’t want it to end. But I’m beat. I’m sick of writing papers. I want to rest… continue reading »