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This is my new bike! It's en route to me now. It's a Rivendell Bleriot. I predict many fun times to come with it. Rivendell is a company founded

by Grant Peterson, of Bridgestone fame. This Bleriot is a relaxed townie

style bike. It's agile and has a 10 gear cassette with 3 sprockets in

front, for a total of 30 speeds!

There's…

That's Ibrahim doing water yoga. Those of you who follow the Zoobird reading lists will notice four new links: the first one is about the series of moves called the Sun Salutation, which Sh'mal just taught me this week and I love already. There's also a link to a video…

(photo from wikipedia) I heard a Barred Owl this morning. It was just before sunrise at about 6:30. I opened my window as quietly as I could and recorded it. Click here to listen to the recording. Have you ever heard the sounds the owl makes…

(photo by Michael Levin www.zoobird.com)

“Hope is the thing with feathers,

that perches in the soul,

and sings the song without the words,

and never stops at all.”



Emily Dickinson

HOME VAN PET CARE PROJECT NEWS – October 2010

From: Elizabeth Howard, Project Coordinator…

Today’s {BotD} Bike of the Day is a Brompton folding bike…

Bromptons have been around for years. They’re made in England. I spotted this one at the Hawthorne Hostel in Portland, Oregon. It’s not the first folding bike I’ve seen at the

hostel. Last year, another traveler came on a Dahon he loved so much he

had it chrome plated!…

I'm headed up to the garden today. Lots of weeds to pull. I've been away for a while and nature's taken its course.

The Urban Farmer suggests these plants for October:…

I'm headed out tomorrow to SF and staying at the Green Tortoise Hostel (and my bud Mike's house) I'll be dividing time between SF and Berkeley. Stay tuned! I hear the Green Tortoise is a great hostel.
Anyone have any experience staying there?

I had just finished a trip to Brazzaville, Republic of Congo and then Morocco. Came back to NYC, staying on E14th Street at the hostel. It

was a quiet mid-morning on Sunday, I believe. I walked from the hostel to a coffee shop, then to a park.

And, on the way back, I looked up and saw this guy lying…

Les Rapides, at The Congo River with children swimming, a boat and Kinshasha, DRC on the far shore. A new set of photos at the Flickr link!

NPR is running a series of stories this week about the Congo River and just this place.…

Interesting perspective here. I'm chewing on it. What do you think of the assertions that "not speaking English" is isolating and "English is
becoming the universal language"? See http://www.englishffl.org/