Adventures in Rookie Rigging
For those who don't know the Crossing Lines team very well, I'm definitely the rookie of the group. My addiction to slacklining started just a little over a year ago, but most of my decisions [...]
Move Copenhagen
In June I packed up my apartment and caught a flight to Denmark with a one-way ticket. I had been invited to teach slacklining workshops at a festival in Denmark called Move Copenhagen and had [...]
It’s possible. Emkan dare.
"Emkan dare" was one of the first phrases I learned in Farsi, "It is possible." This was coupled with "It is beautiful, isn't it?" and "That's strange" along with "left" and "right" and various other [...]
Walking towards the same goal
It's often bothered me when I hear people refer to the region somewhere between Africa, Europe, and China as "the Middle East" as if it is one homogeneous country. To be fair, I suppose we [...]
Carnivals, Goats, Gratitude & OFAC
With our powers combined....Crossing Lines. It's been a year and a half since I started planning the project that has become Crossing Lines. For more than a year Mohammad Reza Abaee and I have [...]
People are awesome
Jade's day, Feb 4, 2014 Today started out great. A rare work from home morning to work on getting the Crossing Lines campaign up and running again, as well as some work and personal life [...]