Category Archives: Personal

Drawing Concentric Circles around Nuclear Weapons

  This quirky little applet, which allows you to pick a city and display the blast and incineration zones which would be caused by a nuclear detonation, reminded me of a long-ago night when I and about 40 dear friends hit the streets of Boston with buckets of paint and posters to illustrate the same …

March 5, 2009 – 6:46 am | By Brian Fitzgerald | Posted in Activism, Personal | Tagged , , , | Comments (10)

One day, One Love

One day Originally uploaded by Brianfit OK, I promised myself to not rant about the jingoism, the patriotic balderdash, the ignorance of the rest of the world that can lead a speaker to say “Only in America” and ignore Mandela and the struggle in South Africa. I promised to set aside my knowledge that politics …

January 21, 2009 – 7:20 am | By Brian Fitzgerald | Posted in Personal | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Homesick 4 Facebook?

The Birkenstock tan lines are fading from my feet. I’ve cleared the 839 emails that came to roost, like so many bats in an abandoned house, in my inbox. The kids are back at school, the globe is still warming, the whales are still dying, and it’s time to admit: vacation is over. I´ve been on …

August 20, 2008 – 8:11 pm | By Brian Fitzgerald | Posted in Personal | Comments (1)

Scotland, nature, break

Highland Stag near Glen Elg Originally uploaded by Brianfit Ahhhh. Still rested and refreshed from a week away in the Highlands of Scotland. Nature, wilderness, wildlife — I miss these things here in my urban flatland home. I’m rather pleased with this photo. It captures a charged moment, one of the indescribable experiences of being eye …

May 6, 2008 – 7:30 pm | By Brian Fitzgerald | Posted in Personal | Comments (2)

Engaged Buddhism

I was raised Catholic, until the day, at 14, I told my dad I wouldn’t be going to church any more because I felt like a hypocrite.  His response was interesting: “You’re too young to know what a hypocrite is,” which to this day I don’t know if he meant literally or with a wider …

March 17, 2008 – 8:01 am | By Brian Fitzgerald | Posted in Activism, Personal | Comments (2)

Bodily experiencing the Dutch countryside

Photo: De Telegraaf I blow my nose this morning, and out comes muck. This is after two showers, a hosing off by the fire department, and a swim in (relatively) clean water. My legs feel like iron. My knees are rusted. The smell of my clothes as I put them in the washing machine this …

August 12, 2007 – 7:54 am | By Brian Fitzgerald | Posted in Personal | Comments (6)