On June 11, 2009, leaders of educational, cultural, and socially-driven
organizations, along with friends and collaborators of Sheepless,
gathered at Green Spaces in Brooklyn, NY, to celebrate the inauguration
of the new business.
"Wait a minute... where are you?" — It's the day before my 31st birthday, and my brother is calling me to wish me well and to catch up. It's been a few weeks, maybe months, since we've talked this time, and though we have a vague notion of what's going on in each other's lives, the daily specifics are often unknown—or more interestingly, filtered through our parents.
At a time when independent retailers are forced to compete with global corporations, and information is disseminated instantaneously and internationally, it is increasingly easy to be influenced by
