Welcome Weary Travelers;

I am Daniel J. Porter, a recent graduate of Kent State University and an intern at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. This website is a portfolio of my work, my hobbies; artwork, music, writing, my thoughts-- and it serves as an archive and portfolio of my work. You'll find a diverse array of materials here... from the time I spent composing songs on my Yamaha keyboard, learning 3D design and more recently, taking you through my current research projects in Political Science. Over the years this atmosphere has changed dramatically, but I've always felt it necessary to have a "haven" of my own on this vast web of minds we call the internet; "Abhaile", is the Irish Gaelic word for "homesward"-- pronounced uh-VWAHL-e. Our generation will be defined by this new and fascinating technology that will forever link our world in ways our ancestors could have never thought possible -- Daniel

"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb." — Sir Winston Churchill