Comments for Frank Bures http://frankbures.com Wed, 09 May 2012 10:25:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on On Pilgrimage, Authenticity and Travel in the Age of Abundance by hoteluri eforie nord http://frankbures.com/2012/04/25/on-pilgrimage-authenticity-and-travel-in-the-age-of-abundance/#comment-1256 Wed, 09 May 2012 10:25:57 +0000 http://frankbures.com/?p=2908#comment-1256 hoteluri eforie nord…

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]]> Comment on We Aren’t the World: Kony 2012, Kenyans for Kenya and the Cultural Roots of Greg Mortenson by frankbures http://frankbures.com/2012/04/05/we-arent-the-world-kony-2012-kenyans-for-kenya-and-the-cultural-roots-of-greg-mortenson/#comment-1210 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:01:57 +0000 http://frankbures.com/?p=2876#comment-1210 Sawa, sawa. Nakutakia kila la heri na wewe pia.

]]> Comment on We Aren’t the World: Kony 2012, Kenyans for Kenya and the Cultural Roots of Greg Mortenson by Suzanne Prindiville http://frankbures.com/2012/04/05/we-arent-the-world-kony-2012-kenyans-for-kenya-and-the-cultural-roots-of-greg-mortenson/#comment-1209 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:58:58 +0000 http://frankbures.com/?p=2876#comment-1209 Asante bwana Bures, nenda vema.
Heri kwa sikukuu ya Pasaka.

]]> Comment on We Aren’t the World: Kony 2012, Kenyans for Kenya and the Cultural Roots of Greg Mortenson by frankbures http://frankbures.com/2012/04/05/we-arent-the-world-kony-2012-kenyans-for-kenya-and-the-cultural-roots-of-greg-mortenson/#comment-1205 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:36:19 +0000 http://frankbures.com/?p=2876#comment-1205 Yes, I do speak fluent Swahili.

]]> Comment on We Aren’t the World: Kony 2012, Kenyans for Kenya and the Cultural Roots of Greg Mortenson by Suzanne Prindiville http://frankbures.com/2012/04/05/we-arent-the-world-kony-2012-kenyans-for-kenya-and-the-cultural-roots-of-greg-mortenson/#comment-1204 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 03:36:14 +0000 http://frankbures.com/?p=2876#comment-1204 Frankbures – do you speak fluent Swahili (or Kichagga, or Masaai) as Mortenson does? He also speaks several languages of Pakistan and Afghanistan. This is the true test that separates the real people from the outsider ‘do gooders’.

]]> Comment on We Aren’t the World: Kony 2012, Kenyans for Kenya and the Cultural Roots of Greg Mortenson by frankbures http://frankbures.com/2012/04/05/we-arent-the-world-kony-2012-kenyans-for-kenya-and-the-cultural-roots-of-greg-mortenson/#comment-1203 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:59:56 +0000 http://frankbures.com/?p=2876#comment-1203 Sorry. I stand corrected. Still I think calling him “one of them” is meaningless and irresponsible. Though I suppose if she means he ran CAI the way Mobutu ran Zaire, or Moi ran Kenya, she may have a point.

]]> Comment on We Aren’t the World: Kony 2012, Kenyans for Kenya and the Cultural Roots of Greg Mortenson by Susan Prindiville http://frankbures.com/2012/04/05/we-arent-the-world-kony-2012-kenyans-for-kenya-and-the-cultural-roots-of-greg-mortenson/#comment-1202 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:41:09 +0000 http://frankbures.com/?p=2876#comment-1202 My parents were friends with Mortenson’s parents in Tanzania.

You are incorrect: Mortenson grew up first in Luindai (near Soni) in the Usamabara mountains for several years. It was a remote area, without running water, electricity, and there was no road even to his mud house. Later, he moved to Moshi, which is certainly urban area.

]]> Comment on We Aren’t the World: Kony 2012, Kenyans for Kenya and the Cultural Roots of Greg Mortenson by frankbures http://frankbures.com/2012/04/05/we-arent-the-world-kony-2012-kenyans-for-kenya-and-the-cultural-roots-of-greg-mortenson/#comment-1201 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:45:01 +0000 http://frankbures.com/?p=2876#comment-1201 Thanks for the comment. I am familiar with Moshi, where he grew up. It’s a small town, but to call it rural would be a stretch. Also, to say someone growing up in well-to-do expatriate/missionary circles in an area like that is “one of them,” is inaccurate at best.

]]> Comment on We Aren’t the World: Kony 2012, Kenyans for Kenya and the Cultural Roots of Greg Mortenson by Suzanne Prindiville http://frankbures.com/2012/04/05/we-arent-the-world-kony-2012-kenyans-for-kenya-and-the-cultural-roots-of-greg-mortenson/#comment-1200 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:58:20 +0000 http://frankbures.com/?p=2876#comment-1200 Greg Mortenson grew up in rural Tanzania for the first fifteen years of his life. Swahili was his first language. His first real exposure to American ‘culture’ was in the U.S. military. In his books, he says he is a product of the third world, an a African at heart. His wife also was quoted as saying, “he is not one of us; he is one of them (meaning third world).

]]> Comment on Is the Internet Making You Less Creative? by shawna bethell http://frankbures.com/2012/02/01/is-the-internet-making-you-less-creative/#comment-1196 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:19:15 +0000 http://frankbures.com/?p=2743#comment-1196 Hello Mr. Bures–
I’m a writer of artilces/essays in Colorado. I read the article in P/W and I agree that blogging/facebooking etc depletes ideas and energy. I don’t do either, but I first noticed the phenomenon when I used to write emails daily. I relocated to the mts and would often write to friends about my experiences, and what I found was that after I’d explored those ideas, I no longer had the push to write them for a larger audience. Now, if I have even the slightest idea that something could be a larger piece, I avoid discussing or writing it to anyone until it’s been scrabbled about on paper (screen). Best Regards–

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