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If it is not you, then who If it is not now, then when You can not compare your insights with other people's outsides Let your life speak

A friend has this terrific idea of starting a clothing business in Benin! I haven't discussed with her enough but my impression is that she wants to adapt African clothing and traditional style to the Western taste. She does not have a website, or a clear business plan...not yet. But she has the right spirit and the innate creativity. When I traveled in Northern Benin I met the lady above. I immediately loved her smile, her clothes, her feminine look and taste for necklaces and earrings. Today I missed color.

I have decided to post a speech I wrote for a communication seminar impersonating a Republican, again, just impersonating...OK!? I am risking my political career (and maybe marital life) with this blog... In the process of writing this I discovered two things: - How much you can play with statistics and numbers to support or refute your arguments - Right wing America makes me sick, literally...listening to other classmates' Republican speeches kept me in tension for an hour, my stomach was hurting while a Greek classmate was defending pro-life policies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 victims. As I speak today 4 children under the age of 15 will die from AIDS. Every 15 seconds, a young adult is infected with HIV. Just imagine,1,2,3,4…15. One person less. We all know about the HIV epidemic, about the prevalence rates and the cost of anti-retroviral drugs, but do we know about the efforts of America in decreasing the deaths and...

Easy. Not by the kind of life the top 5% of the country's population has but by the bottom 5%.

California could be part of Mexico!

Today a professor said in class: "Your generation has so many poor role models, there is so much mistrust. You will have to build the trust that the previous generation had" And we all felt like heroes.