This morning a friend shared this beautifully-written tribute to Matthew Power, a journalist who died recently while reporting in Uganda. I didn’t know Power’s work before reading this piece, but the author Abe Streep’s description of his friend compelled me to seek it out. As someone who works in global health and travels frequently to places haunted by thrill-seeking writers and photographers, I found this line particularly intriguing:
Matt traveled to hard places, but he didn’t court danger.
Clicking through to a link shared in the tribute, I found “The Magic Mountain,” a sprawling Harper’s article written with old fashioned take-me-there charm. In it, Power simply and elegantly tells the story of a giant trash heap that piled up in Quezon City, Philippines, and the community of people who now live and eek out a life in its shadow.
Tags: Abe Streep, gleaners, Harper's, Magic Mountain, Matthew Power, Outside, Philippines, Quezon City, trash pickers, Waste Pickers
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Monday, July 21, 2014 at 9:57 am |
I have Firefox as my main web browser already, but I want my windows live messenger to open all windows on Firefox and not IE7. For instance, the email symbol at the top left-hand area of wlm. Every time I click on it, it opens up on IE7 which i don’t want, but on Firefox.. how do i remove ie7? .