Our planet often can seem otherworldly. Case in point, consider these pictures of trees completely cocooned in the webs of an infinite number of spiders following the record floods that hit Sindh Pakistan at the end of last year. Because of the amount of flooding and the time that it took for the water to [...]
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Otherworldly
Posted in Burke y El Mundo, Environment on May 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Davids – Live!
Posted in Burke y El Mundo, Community on May 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Davids Live The Event of the Year (Decade?) June 10, 2010 – 7PM Gaston Hall – Georgetown University Please join current and past Burke celebrities and stars, including students, alums, faculty, parents and friends – to celebrate the incredible body of work that was crafted, directed and performed over the past 12 years by [...]
Home & Hearth
Posted in Burke y El Mundo, Community, Performing Arts, tagged music on May 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The first space at Burke that most people connect with is the Atrium. It is Burke’s home within a home. At any given moment it is Burke’s meeting place, social network, stage, study hall, town square, cathedral, coffee house, sanctuary, etc. Enter the Atrium alone at night – and you can almost feel the echos [...]
Learning Tengwar
Posted in Burke y El Mundo, Culture on April 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tengwar is the name of the alphabet used in several languages in Middle-Earth. Tengwa is a word in Quenya (the Elvish dialect we teach) meaning “sign” or “symbol,” so plural Tengwar comes from that. Within Tolkien’s mythology, the Noldo elf Fëanor invented the Tengwar, to replace Sarati, the previous, more limited system. (Fëanor was also, [...]
Phi Beta Khraishah
Posted in Alumni, Burke y El Mundo, College Counseling, Community, tagged college, Community on March 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Burke alum, Janine Khraishah was an unforgettable member of Burke world, excelling in school, on the field and in service to the community. After graduating from Burke in 2008, Janine went to Brown University where she was recently welcomed, as a Junior, into the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Here’s what she has to [...]
I AM
Posted in Activism, Burke y El Mundo, Community, Performing Arts, Science on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just saw the Falls Church premiere of I AM http://iamthedoc.com/ . Check it out. Will be at E Street starting Friday. Heart-centered it had all my favorites: Thomas Merton, Albert Einstein, Desmond Tutu, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, and new insights on how we are biologically and spiritually hard-wired for cooperation. I AM The Documentary | [...]
Next Stop Union Station!
Posted in Burke y El Mundo on May 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Take a look at what a cool group of folks did in the Antwerp Train Station. Let’s meet in my office (M&Ms always available) to figure out how we can pull off a similar terrific-ness at Union Station. Doh!!
¿Facebook, MySpace…?
Posted in Burke y El Mundo on March 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Un artículo muy interesante de “El País.com” sobre las redes sociales en el Internet, algo con lo que todos vivímos cada día directa o indirectamente en Burke. ¡Además mencionan a mi amigo José Luís, que vino a los EE.UU. el año pasado y salió muy impresionado positivamente con su visita a Burke! Estar en Facebook [...]
La crisis económica en España
Posted in Burke y El Mundo on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Aquí va un link (en inglés) sobre los efectos que la crisis económica global tiene en España. ¡Gracias a Avé que nos lo envió hace unos días! Es interesante ver en qué modos se manifiesta la recesión global en otras partes del mundo. Me pregunto si esto ocurre / va a ocurrir en EE.UU. de [...]
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