On my last day as a substitute teacher, a student, Mike, asked me if I could draw. I took a break from writing a dispatch for Ephemerratic.com to show him that I could. Click here to read the whole story here and to see future drawings.

This is the drawing of the week for June 30 - July 5, 2008.

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Full Circle Fund members and guests gathered at Dogpatch Studios for "Imagining the Unimaginable" with top social entrepreneurs. Before hearing from three particularly innovative speakers, the crowd ate very well thanks to M Woodward Catering as Christopher Kilday strummed his guitar.

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Premal Shah, president of Kiva, talks at the Full Circle Fund "Imagining the Unimaginable" event to lead off a panel that also included Deb Levine of I.S.I.S., Inc. and Jim Fruchterman of Benetech - all of whom have found impressive ways of making technology work for the social good.

Kiva's method of allowing anyone to be a micro-lender to entreprenours across the world is a model that will bring prosperity to millions. This is the good globalization.

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Jonathan Kurshan tells Full Circle Fund members about the new members only pages on the website.

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A tree near the Coliseum/Oakland Airport BART station that I drew while waiting for the train on the way back from the Airport.

This is the drawing of the week for April 20-26, 2008.

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After visiting the her namesake, the Pacific Ocean, for the first time Shanti fell asleep in the car. Sutay wasn't about to wake her up when we stopped back at Aunt Kitty's house.

This is the drawing of the week for April 13-19, 2008.

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On the first Friday of each month, the Artist Xchange has an opening to show off the works of many great artists. They are also open well into the evening seven days a week.

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Looner is a duet with a whole lot more added with one of those looping machines.

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Preparing for happy hour at the Latin American Club. I enjoy sitting on the stage at this festive bar which is not particularly Latin or clubby.

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Riding home on BART on a Thursday night after seeing "Into the Wild."

This is the drawing of the week for December 2-8, 2007.

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