I love creating photo mosaics. I just uncovered these digital photos from a trip to Malaysia five years ago (hidden underneath my bed), and this combination of nine photographs tells the story better than I ever could.
Tag: Sunday Scribblings
Left & Right
Here’s a little free association for this week’s Sunday Scribblings. Left: Dancing. Seattle. Brooklyn. Gustav Klimt. Europe. Coffee. Theater. Sleep. Pillows. Rain. Music. Houseplants. Writing. Ben Harper. Ribbons. Jewelry. The New Yorker. Socks. Puppies. Arundhati Roy. The Notwist. Swimming. Pie. Holidays. Green. Wool scarves. Marathons. Barack Obama. Ice cream. Blogging. 1984. Circles. Cursive writing. Beaches. …
Money & Health
Many people are familiar with the disproportionate disease burden that the poorer countries of the world bear. But just so you can get a more vivid picture, here is a map by Worldmapper that represents the proportion of adults that are HIV+ by country: And here is the tuberculosis burden: And now let’s take a …
Mulago Hospital
Not quite a decade ago, I volunteered for the AIDS Support Organisation (TASO) in Uganda. Fresh out of university with Bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Sociology, I had absolutely nothing to offer TASO except for a year-long commitment and a willingness to learn, and they were lovely enough to take me in.* TASO is located …