The Journey is the Inspiration: Patrick Ahern
I am a crocheter, knitter, and knot-tier and fiber is my media of choice in creating art. I grew up in Woodland Hills, CA where my mom taught me to crochet and knit during my last year in high school; I haven’t put it down since. Crocheting pictures came out of my frustration with making […]
An Excerpt from “Art of Life”: Safari
An excerpt from the book Art of Life by Jennifer New. Mtu hujua atokako, hajui aendako. – Swahili proverb (“One knows where they are coming from, not where they are going.”) To Western ears, “safari” conjures up visions of a hunting adventure: Teddy Roosevelt or Ernest Hemingway on an apocryphal sojourn, packing a couple of Remington shotguns, […]
The Journey is the Inspiration: Shazdeh Omari
When I was a sophomore in high school in 1997, a teacher showed me Dan’s journal and let me spend the 40-minute period looking at it. I saved up money that summer and bought it from a Border’s, excited to get home and take it out of the bag. I spent hours poring over it, […]
An Excerpt from “Art of Life”: Discovery
An excerpt from the book Art of Life by Jennifer New. No one remembers exactly how the bag arrived at Mike Eldon’s home in Nairobi, only that it took several weeks after Dan’s death to get there. It was a black nylon military bag, something he’d come by in a trade with a Marine, the same way […]
The Journey is the Inspiration: J. Dean
Dear Dan, I never met you, but learning about your life has resonated deep within me. I felt a connection that has no barriers when it is about another soul’s journey triumphing in the dark and ugly spaces. Your life took you to a wider World than mine has been, in which you met and […]
Tiyeo’s First News Story
One day while Rachel and I were helping carry cement blocks in Grippis, I started talking with Tiyeo, a senior in high school, about her dream of becoming a journalist. Having majored in Journalism myself, I couldn’t help but offer to bring my camera the next day to film Tiyeo’s very first newscast. It is definitely a […]
The Journey is the Inspiration: William J. Charlebois
I wish I could remember exactly how I first learned about Dan Eldon. There was probably an article in one of the many magazines my sister buys. After reading about Dan, I ordered the book The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon. The photos of Dan’s journal pages were amazing. Their content […]
We Are All the Same
When I landed in Zambia, I knew that I didn’t have any time to waste. I had one week. Seven days. 168 hours to soak up every moment, every person, and every sight. Jet lag – all I can say is… It was one action-packed week. One thing that Rachel loves to do is spoil her Zambian […]
The Journey is the Inspiration: Mary Beth Shaw
I first learned of Dan Eldon when I lived in California. One of my art posse had watched a special about him on TV and told me about it. I bought Kathy Eldon’s book and examined each page carefully. It was 2001 and I was a budding collage artist. Truth be known, I couldn’t […]
The Journey Is the Inspiration
Dan Eldon has impacted countless people through his life as an activist, adventurer and artist. His passion, drive, spirit and sense of wonder are deeply compelling and thoroughly inspiring. It seems like he filled every second of his 22 years of life with the type of meaningful endeavors that many of us desire to have […]
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