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Fortunately we don’t get snow like this often:

All my photos from this evening’s snow.

Busy with law school, but I’ve finally uploaded all my Arizona photos from last year. One of these has been my wallpaper for the past week or so:

from August 5, 2006 near the Chapel of the Holy Cross in Arizona.

In other news, I’m glad to have my laptop back after several days of it being non-functional after its motherboard died. A new motherboard and it’s as good as new now, thankfully.jumbo alaska loansloan alfredfha ak loansrefinance loan mortgage alabama125 home loanpersonal $7000 loansbusiness grant loan small administrationadoption grants and loans Map

There’s something special about the morning; about getting up before the sun does and starting a day fresh and refreshed. Of course, this requires going to bed much earlier than I usually do, but I must say that there’s something to be said for watching a sunrise*.

I don’t know how to put words to describe it, but there’s something cosmic about watching darkness turn to light, shadows dissolve, grays fade to color. I like it.

* Technically it isn’t a sun rise at all, it’s the earth spinning. But sometimes it’s better not to be technical, because there’s something poetic about the phrase ’sun rise’ that is lost by a more technical description. Not everything needs to be analyzed, I need to remember :)

A note about the photo: it’s a shot taken July 30, 2002 in Boston at RSI 2002. The students had been up all night writing and rewriting their papers (and as their counselors, we had been up too, helping as best as we could) — we came upon the idea to go out to Harvard bridge and watch the sunrise as a means of taking a break. Now in the November of my first semester of law school, I can certainly identify with the need to take a breath of fresh air and look at nature’s beauty as a means of respite from study.bad credit loans $5000guaranteed 100 loans student200 loan day payloans quick 300direct loan 502loan nursing 9 studentuk loan aatexas loan rate adjustable Map

A photo taken this August on the WTC site. The cross is the one found in the ruins of the WTC.

I still agree with the majority of the words I wrote exactly 5 years ago:

Our society, America, cannot submit to fear. We are a mighty people, the strongest the planet has ever seen. The tenants of this nation dictate that we not abandon the banner of freedom and liberty merely because antagonism is directed against us. We must stand strong, holding high the American flag amidst tragedy, wearing our swords at our sides and drawing them out to strike only when we have ascertained our enemy.

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The principle aim of the terrorists, however, will not be accomplished. America will not withdraw from world affairs, wounded and wary, never to stand again as the light of liberty across the world. Though the Towers smolder in ashes and ruin, Lady Liberty yet holds forth her torch, her eyes filled with tears and her fists clenched in righteous anger.

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The options of our course of action must be weighed carefully, yet we must not lower ourselves to the level of the terrorists. America cannot find true vengeance by slaying innocent peasants whose government has given safe haven to terrorists. If we do so, then we are no better than the terrorists: brutes who slay innocents without just cause. We are the most powerful nation on earth. Our technology and force exceeds that of anything else this planet has ever seen. We have the capability to track down those responsible, apprehend them and bring them to the full force of our justice system.

Have we done as well as we could have done? This is something for our nation to reflect on during this time of reflection. It is a time to look at the past and learn its lessons. It is vital we understand we can never undo the past, nor we can we completely control the future. All we can do is act in the present. It is vital we consider the best current course of action, vital that we hold a national dialogue on our purposes in the War on Terror. I am sad that the current political climate is one of caustic partisanship and that both parties don’t sit down and work together to ascertain not only our goals but the path we wish to take to reach them.

As John Carlton wrote, “We took a hit, and we absorbed the blow and held steady. But we did take a hit.” Things irrevocably changed that day. I do not think we have quite yet understood how they have changed, and I do feel that as a nation we would immensely benefit from greater political dialogue about what has changed and what we are doing, and why, greater political dialogue about where we are going and why. It is time to lay politics aside and engage in a rational, respectful, reasoned discussion about what is best for our nation and how we can best go about reaching towards it.

This is not “mere idealism.” This is realism, because it is intrinsically tied with reality. If we do not know where we are going and why, we have no hope of getting there. This is a far too dangerous time for America to not steer its ship, to let the waves and winds of a hostile world set our course. We must set our course and we must understand the course we set, so that we can go where it is we wish to go. But before we can do that, we must dialogue as a nation to understand where it is we wish to go and why we wish to go there. If we do not do this, we will founder, for the world is far too hostile for us to trust in its waves and winds.

Some late-uploaded photos from a trip to New York this August.

And yes, I’m aware I haven’t uploaded all of my Arizona photos yet — my experiment in tagging led to the realization that pre-tagging photos just leads to delays in uploading them. I’ll work on getting Arizona photos up as soon as I’m able.

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I’m in Connecticut for several days, visiting my girlfriend.

Today we went commericial fishing in search of crabs.

Personal favorites photos and all photos of our adventures are uploaded and tagged.

Yesterday we went to the Phoenix Zoo (see favorite photos) (see all photos) and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West (see favorite photos) (see all photos). Both animals and architecture made for some very interesting and cool shots.

Yesterday we went to the Desert Botanical Garden near Phoenix, Arizona. We took a lot of photos, and fortunately the hotel we’re staying does have free internet access and thus I was able to upload them overnight. You can see Personal Favorites from My Photos and Personal Favorites from My Mom’s Photos.

If you like, you can see all our Arizona pictures. Those will update as I upload more from further travels around the state.

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After several years offline (more than intended), my photos from Japan are once again integrated into my Travels in Japan travelogue. They link to the relevant galleries on dominik.net. Enjoy!

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From Tertio Millennio. Was walking on George Weigel’s walking tour of Krakow, in the footsteps of Karol Wojtyla, and had my camera out when we were walking past this motorcycle. Leaned down and took a shot and this photo was the result.

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This post is the first in a new style of blog post I’m calling “A Photo” (until someone suggests a better name). The idea is that every so often I’ll select a photo that I particularly like from photos.dominik.net and tell a bit more about the story behind the photo, its special meaning or the like. Hope you like it :)0.8125 7000 personal loanadvance 0.7915 10 loan dollar cashpoor 1.4347 5000 or no credit loancheck 1.4347 $5000 credit money no loanscredit check loan 0.7775 15000 nodiscipline spanking websites 0.7775 bestloans no 0.7775 2500 credit checkteletrak loans fast 1.0341 faxless payday loan dollar Map