What looks like a regular lagoon in the photo above is actually a crater created by the Bravo bomb. And the tiny speck of a canoe is where our crew was seated, looking out at a brilliant blue that was once the site of the largest nuclear blast ever detonated in the world. This was the last stop of our journey… Read More
Back in Majuro after spending 2 weeks on the Okeanos – Foundation for the Sea canoe. Still processing the amazing trip to Enewetak, Runit and Bikini, site of some of the worst nuclear destruction in the world. It was a transformative journey to say the least, and pretty rough at times too with 20ft waves on the way to Enewetak. Traveling… Read More
For my first blog post of 2018, I thought I’d take some time to reflect on my first poem project of the year – the Dome Poem, as I like to call it, which focuses on the Runit Dome. The Runit Dome was once just Runit – one of the islets that make up Enewetak atoll. It was incinerated thanks… Read More
It’s been over two weeks since I left COP23, and I’m only now beginning to unravel what I learned. When I started this blog post, it was meant to be a broad overview of this recent conference – but I ended up focused on one of our actions that began our trip: a traditional Fijian ceremony we held alongside… Read More
The following is a bit of a #latepost – it was originally published in the website under the Pacific based non-profit PREL (Pacific Resources for Education and Learning) Pacific Storyteller’s Cooperative. This was published on October 30, before I headed out to COP23 in Germany. My work for COP23 began this past year in Fiji, where I attended my first retreat… Read More
Wind chimes made of shell casings, a sepia toned desert, and the lush greens of an island. Images throughout Nathan Fitch’s film, “Island Soldier,” a documentary on Micronesians serving in the US military, are at once crisp and remarkably beautiful, and yet, like the stories it tells, they are also incredibly heartbreaking. Nathan, a former Peace Corp volunteer who used… Read More
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