boys and girls in america

"your faith has got to be greater than your fear."
julian casablancas

give me silence, water, hope
give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.
neruda









those were photos from my new apartment, sunbathing and tea-drinking next to the window, the columbia heights adventure, and going out in maryland. work has been pretty cool: making talking points for our representative for the world economic forum in switzerland, getting photographed by the south korean press, going to a protest outside the indonesian embassy and getting to answer a call from a guy from sri lanka: "you have no idea how much that the work your organization is doing is helping my family. it has changed our lives."