Nneka, Soul Crush

Let Me Take Your Vital Signs

Summer thus far -

Adventures with best friends.  Soul-filling conversation, 

beaching, kayaking, rollercoastering.  Reading,
& random conversation on public transportation (favorite!).

New acquaintances & inspiring people,

and (so far) owning the latest bombardment of challenges - 

the Anything-worth-having-is-worth-fighting-for kind.

And in the midst of all this, there is a shifting of the universe.

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A few links:

-->  A fairytale no longer: Cloth spun from spider's silk.  Neat, but, *shudder*.

-->  Found in Mom's Basement (+1 for creepy title!).  It's got a plethora of vintage advertisements, enough for cultural anthropological discussion, if you're into that sort of thing.  Regardless, get your fill of humor + design here.  So nerdy.  So cool.

-->  On August 9, 2010, Ed Stafford reached the Atlantic Ocean, completing his journey & becoming the first man to walk the entire length of the Amazon River.  HOLY SWEETNESS.  (Heart of Darkness, much?)

• The journey took 2.5 years.  The challenges, aside from malnutrition and injury, include: illness (dengue, typhoid, malaria, leishmaniasis, rabies from vampire bats), wasp nests + killer bees, snake bites, 20 foot Anacondas, Piranhas, Amazonian crocodiles, jaguars, and aggressive local tribes. 
• Fellow expeditionist Luke Collier began and walked with Ed for 3 months.  Afterward, hundreds of local people walked bits of the trek with Ed; one of them, Gadiel (”Cho”) Sanchez Rivera, completed the journey with him.
• Ed hopes to "draw attention to the complexities of the Amazon rainforest" with his adventure.  Oh yeah, and he supports 5 charities.

Overachievers everywhere are crying their eyes out.  Account of the trek here.

Heartbeat #3: Strawberry Fields Forever

EDIT: Taken off for use in another project


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* Posts entitled “Heartbeat” are works of fiction; resemblance to real people, events, or places are purely unintentional & coincidental.