I was procrastinating

I mean, I do need to have fun, but I was really just having a subconscious fight with my work and self-esteem. Funny how perspective materializes some days.

I love summer! Eighty degrees and muggy feels like an embrace. And I love great journalism! If you've some time, read Jon Lee Anderson's article in the New Yorker on the opium war in Afghanistan. Development at its hairiest: invest in sustainable livelihoods or destroying poppy fields? (The article swells with real issues, personalities, and action--one of the livelier things I've read in that magazine.) What good industries in Afghanistan can I support? Kiva's only Asian borrowers are from Tajikistan and Azerbaijan. Afghanistan is obviously not well poised for entry into the (legal) global economy. Perhaps the best thing to do is... to donate to international aid organizations? to help people kick heroin? Which?