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What is your greatest strength?
Believing in people's strengths
What are you working on?
Self-sufficiency program for disadvantaged youth through skill-building in community-based food systems, urban farming, farmers' markets, micro-enterprise
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small company
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What is your alma mater?
Anderson University

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Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Pray the Devil Back to Hell As I left the theater, I saw quite a bit of blood splattered near the escalator with 2 security personnel standing guard. I was already thinking about how the glassed-over eyes and hardened faces of the gun-toting boy soldiers in Liberia reminded me too much of gang-involved youth I have known in Indianapolis and Los Angeles. And now there was real blood on the doorstep of the theater (turns out it was an accident someone had, not a result of violence). Not that I fe… Continue

Posted on October 19, 2008 at 10:15pm — 1 Comment

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At 8:58pm on July 29, 2008, Pete Manzelli said…
Alan...I saw your request for a local athlete....are you forgetting that Sherry is buddies w/ Greg Oden & Mike Conley? I didnt want to post this on the blog b/c I have no idea how likely they would be to show up, but she sees Oden at LN all the time, he is still rehabbing here in town, you should contact her, maybe she can hook you up
At 5:11pm on May 1, 2008, Pete Manzelli said…
Hey Alan...I thought that was you, I was going to add you as a friend first but not for sure, you need to add a photo. Thanks for finding me on here & making me a friend. Hope all is well!
At 2:35am on May 1, 2008, Nancy Stimson said…
Alan, check this out. http://www.worcesterearnabike.org/ciclovidatourannounce.pdf
Hmmmmm.....
At 11:35pm on April 29, 2008, Alan Archibald said…
It would have to be peak moments - where I feel I am in the right place at the right moment to notice with someone else that the earthy and the divine are a whole. And this seems to happen routinely in my work with disadvantaged youth. It's mostly about helping young people see that their frustrations with life are perfectly reasonable given their circumstances and that the antidote is not snatching up more things or engaging in ever grander distractions - efforts that will just make them feel even more disenfranchised - but to respect them and make a connection. So helping someone with a load of produce, cooking a new recipe, helping worms turn trash into fertilizer, participating in creation by growing food - these things are both practical and healing. If creativity is making something from nothing, and humor is making nothing of something, then a sense of humor and the ability to create are ways to move beyond the limited horizon of poverty. (Such the rambling philosopher I am.) Anyway, that's a start.
blessings - Alan
At 10:50pm on April 29, 2008, Nancy Stimson said…
What a great question, Alan! I think what keeps me going, what gives me energy, is seeing people's eyes light up with delight. And given what I do, most often that's matching the right person with just the right bike. Guess I'm just a matchmaker at heart. I get the same high from connecting people with each other - or with God - or with their own dream, passion, purpose.

WHAT ABOUT YOU? What keeps YOU going, makes your heart sing?
At 9:06pm on April 29, 2008, Nancy Stimson said…
No, I didn't make it to the Youth Worker Cafe, either. Too bad, because Dennis said it was about networking. I had a bug yesterday, though, and wasn't sure whether or not I was over it. I was, but also had a crazy-busy day!

Unfortunately, we haven't seen Malik, Alan. I went and picked him up once, because he had a flat tire on his bike, but he hasn't been back. He said his bike got stolen. I told him if he'd get a bus, I'd see what I could do (which everyone who knows me knows means, "We'll get you something; maybe not a Cadillac, but something that will keep you rolling." Still haven't seen him again.

Matthew Jose was in today, from the Purdue extension, to buy a bike to go along with a trailer we're building him. Do you know him?
At 12:14pm on April 29, 2008, Scott Semester said…
Hey, Alan -- Great to see you on here!

Looking forward to learning more about where The Growing Community and Mid-North Church Council (and Broadway, specifically) can partner in the future.
At 10:32am on April 29, 2008, Nancy Stimson said…
Hi, Alan!
Maybe this is a good way to keep in touch about what we're both doing. Had dinner with Andy and Jan York last Saturday. They had a ball working with your group!
Nancy
At 8:21pm on April 28, 2008, Kyle Lacy said…
Hey Alan! Welcome to Smaller Indiana and congratulations on becoming a SMOOSIER! Let us know if you have any questions about the site. And enjoy yourself!
 
 

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