Hi, it’s me the picture guy about to get all wordy on you again.

In case you’ve wondered, I’ve been out. My mind, along with all of my other earthly parts have been away, out of the office, out of order, out to lunch, out of the country peddling furiously. No, that isn’t a metaphor for the creative process; I mean I’ve been literally peddling on my bike, really fast and for great amounts of time over vast and strange landscapes looking for an adequate way to start this blog.

Here's something that I think anyone concerned with kids, education, peace and justice throughout our planet and galaxy, should know about. David LaMattina and Chad Walker, two friends at Blue Sky Studios have created a feature length documentary about a pen-pal program between a group of at-risk sixth graders in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn and orphans in war-torn Freetown, Sierra Leone.