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Hi all! Tomorrow I leave for a month in Nicaragua - no phone, no internet, no tv, no hot showers, no CrossFit, no family or friends. Just me and a backpack, in a small town, learning Spanish. This image from Keri Smith (left) says it all. See you in February! One last post before I peace out for a while:

Listening to: Joshua Foer: Step Outside Your Comfort Zone and Study Yourself Failing

Ha, oh McSweeneys: LOOK, WE CAN EITHER STUDY FOR OUR LAW SCHOOL FINALS, OR WE CAN BRING ABOUT THE VIOLENT DISSOLUTION OF THE AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM.

Yes! Love Vanessa Davis!

Liked this design*sponge interview about Portlandia ("artisinal knots, pickling") And, just because: Portlandia: Dream of the 90s ("I gave up clowning years ago!" "Well, in Portland you don't have to.")

As more and more friends "settle down" and I continue to plan my life in one year and two year stints, the pull between staying in one place and continuing to jump around becomes stronger. So there was a lot I could relate to here: A Place to Lay My Heart. I want community and stability, but I also want adventure, to see new places, to have new experiences, to not wait around for something....ah, who knows.

And....related! "The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person - without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other." - Osho

Wow. My Guantánamo Nightmare.

From TAL this week: Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory: "Mike Daisey was a self-described "worshipper in the cult of Mac. Then he saw some photos from a new iPhone, taken by workers at the factory where it was made. Mike wondered: Who makes all my crap? He traveled to China to find out."

"Accept yourself / so deeply / that you are not afraid to let go / of what is not you." source.