Constantine’s Log

It seems that I have been travelling quite a bit this summer. From teaching at scout camps to family vacations to wilderness treks, I feel like I have been seeing a lot of the world recently. This past week, I went backpacking to a family cabin in Ontario.The cabin itself is an old logging resort, [...]

    What is Athens' Own doing?   I wrote recently about picking up turtles from the highway, in an attempt to save them. I also mentioned that in this metaphor, Athens' Own is trying to do more. However I didn't say exactly what more means. And unfortunately, I don't have a simple answer for [...]

Faller Foods and Constantine's Dry Aged Beef On a sunny Saturday morning in Carlisle, PA, as the church bells were chiming their last note, a little boy named Constantine Faller clung to his mothers' arm as they walked down the street to the local butcher shop. This was the routine every Saturday morning; Mass, then [...]

"I can do anything, with a good cup of coffee" - by Alyse Carter While you are enjoying your cup of coffee, I'd like to take a minute to ask you to reflect on the state of the world. If you stop and really think about it, you might get a little depressed. We are [...]

  Meeting at Fed Hock High School – 7/15/13 In attendance: -Bill Elasky -Cliff Bonner -Constantine Faller -Alyse Carter -Miles McFadden   CF: To start, a little bit of background with Bill- through the window of business, we are working on building resilience. The solutions lie in places that are not part of our current [...]

On Thursday morning, Constantine and I started by him asking me what it was that I do that "gets me to the next gear", as if in a car. I think that he asked because it seems that I don't really "get excited" or even move fast while working with Athens' Own. Anyway, I said [...]

As Miles, Constantine and I walked into the shared ACEnet kitchen this morning, like we do almost every morning, we halted suddenly, surprised by what lay in front of us. “What is this? Is this for anyone?” We remarked at the tray of four or five loaves of cinnamon sugar bread, left out on the [...]

Today we set out for our meeting with a local education professional with this thought in mind: How we go about using the day in front of us to make the most learning out of every experience?   Constantine and Alyse met with BE, director of the CARE program, on Monday, July 8th, for a [...]

As is mentioned in various places on this website and in logs, one of the first steps we see to help start building resilience is to take a critical look at the situation in front of you. We have a particular document which we reference often, that we call the “current situation analysis”. This document [...]

I think it's safe to say that at some point in your life, you have uttered the phrase: “I'm going to do something about this!” For the purposes of this explanation, what “this” is doesn't particularly matter. It could be a cause one feels strongly about, a percieved injustice, something one loves so much they [...]