Archive for August, 2006

Do you care? 27 Comments

Do you see those kids? They were orphaned by AIDS.  Every Year in Ethiopian about 3 quarters of a million kids under the age of fifteen are orphaned by AIDS. It is estimated that there are 2.5 million AIDS orphans in Ethiopia and increasing at a rapid rate. Without digressing too much into my personal [...]

beBegena 59 Comments

Of the five human senses, the one with the longest memory is the sense of smell followed by hearing. Clark Richert, my painting instructor from the college years told me that he used to spray his painting with oddest perfume in order to strike a chord in the memory of viewers. After some research, studies’correlating [...]

Buhe Belu! 100 Comments

Buhe MeTa Ho Buhe Belu Ho YamelaTa Ho Kibe Kebute Ho Enday’Ne’Ta Ho Well so, Buhe Met’To Hede; while combing through the musical archive for an appropriate song, non other than Mulatu Astatqe’s Assiyo Bellema jumps out.

The Drink of Choice! 266 Comments

Addis Ababain elites who travel to Washington DC for vacation are rare but over the past several months I’ve have the pleasure of entertaining a few. I really do enjoy it. I get to see their perspective.   How disillusion their viewpoint is? How care free and ambiguous the sociological outlook is? How unobloquious life has [...]

Remembering TG 10 Comments

Blengrafix Introduces Tsegaye Gebremedhin Wallpapers. Nice designs, & very cool concept. Support the arts, and Ethiopian Artists. If you don’t you are lame. And give your shout out to Laureate. It’s a good start but those of us that are not familiar with the work need a place online where we can read some poetry [...]