 - Last login: 7 hours agoAkscholar
- Tom is a 25 year old guy in a relationship from Ashland, Oregon, USA.
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- Member since Apr 19, 2007
I've been photographed professionally climbing under glaciers and on top of mountains, I've refueled helicopters, worked on computer systems in prisons and led bike and kayak tours for a living. I've been in college before I graduated high school and I likely won't be done with my PhD until I'm at least thirty. I grew up in Southeast Alaska and have the ability to run full tilt through old growth forest. Argentina was hot but Japan was hotter. I've played slap bass for over a decade and love giving lessons. I'm a runner but I climb daily. My girlfriend keeps me sane and shows me a kind of love I never knew could exist, it permeates every fiber of my being. In June I will be graduating with a degree in Political Science and a degree in Islamic and European History. In October I will travel around the world with my girl and then head back to the states for grad school. My goal is to become a professor teaching in the United States and overseas. Enjoy the stumbles, I know I do.
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I recently watched a video documenting the painting of murals by Iraqi artist on blast walls erected by U.S. occupiers. Their work, given the circumstances, is inspiring to say the least. This is what ABC news had to say about it:
"Unending stretches of concrete blocks set up to prevent insurgent attacks have virtually walled in Baghdad, but in the process have also created a canvas for artists to paint Iraq's natural beauty. The wall sections, each nine metres long and two metres high, are part of the vast network of concrete blocks and concertina wires that carve up the capital, where bloody attacks are still a daily occurrence.
Dubbed "concrete caterpillars" by the US military, the walls have in some places boxed in entire neighborhoods and markets to protect them from bombings.
However, Iraqi artists, backed by the municipality which wants to spruce up the city, are now using them as canvases on which to paint images from Iraq's 1,000-year-old civilization." - (source, ABC news)
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