Special Projects of the Heart
The work on this page represents professional work that are and continue to be personally rewarding or close to the heart.
Imani Hakim reading Langston Hughes
During the Audio Dimensions Welcome to Fairfax project, recorded with students at the Bolton School in Cleveland, many of the kids welcomed the chance to read into the microphones and be recorded. – One of these students was a nine-year-old Imani Hakim, (not pictured left) three years before she would play the part of younger sister Tonya on Chris Rock’s coming-of-age television hit, Everybody Hates Chris.
Imani reads Langston’s Hughes’ ‘Dream Variations’.
The most intellectually challenging reading and analytical experience was likely indexing the Cambridge University Press Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression, Vollume 2, an 822-page world standard – a primary on resource on bookshelves across the world from court rooms to physician and clinician offices – presenting the newest scholarship and insights from behavior genetics, cross-cultural comparative psychology/criminology, evolutionary psychology, criminal justice, criminology, human development, molecular genetics, neurosciences, psychology, prevention and intervention sciences, psychiatry, psychopharmacology, public health, and sociology. Fun stuff.
I read it two-and-a-half times. I can imagine that there are maybe a dozen or two dozen people in the entire world who have read it from cover-to-cover once. I did so twice. And then a half another time.
Anyway, I’m proud of it and the work completed.
Read The Chewy Decimal System on the Exercise and Experience