Crossing the street in Saigon and Hanoi (and doubtless many, many other Asian cities) is an act of faith and trust. Intersections with traffic lights are scarce, and so at some point you have to take a deep breath, and insert yourself into the flow of scooters, cars and buses coming at you from all… Continue reading Understanding the Rocks
Category: Teachers All Around Us
We Live in Poverty – Not In Misery
Hello dear reader, it’s so good to be back with you. It’s been a month and I’m hoping you will be OK with me sharing my main takeaway from from our amazing trip to Vietnam and Cambodia. Up front though, you need to know that if I don’t seem “fair and balanced” or my “tone”… Continue reading We Live in Poverty – Not In Misery
Up In Smoke
What is art? What is an artist? Hello dear reader, from our forest cabin in Vermont’s wild and beautiful NE Kingdom, I pray you are having the best summer. Me too. So good in fact, that I’ve been a poor correspondent.I promise to mend my ways. I’ve a number of things on my mind that… Continue reading Up In Smoke
The “Nice Ones” Are Easy To Love
I’ve blogged a few times about my Thursdays at Martins, the soup kitchen in San Francisco where I serve soup on Thursdays. It’s my favorite day of the week – my favorite mostly because it feels good to do good, but almost as much because of the personal learning that keeps happening for me there.… Continue reading The “Nice Ones” Are Easy To Love
Teachers on the #9
I’ve mentioned before that I volunteer at a homeless shelter (Martin de Porres) in San Francisco on Thursdays making and serving soup to our guests. It makes me happy because it feels good to do good stuff. To get there, I sometimes take the SF Muni #9 bus, and if you want to see a… Continue reading Teachers on the #9
A NO BRAINER
Went for a walk in the Muir Woods National Monument last week. Those old growth redwood trees, many of which have been around for 2000 years, never let me down. My visits there are always sooo uplifting – humbling too. This time though, I “got” the humbling part. We humans would probably agree that (by at least two important… Continue reading A NO BRAINER
God’s Smile?
One of my fellow volunteers on the Thursday crew at Martin’s (the soup kitchen) is an Alzheimer’s patient. To protect his privacy, I’ll call him Eric. Eric has been coming in with his caregiver for well over a year now. He serves bread to our guests. He loves it. I’m pretty sure that his Thursday gig is a really,… Continue reading God’s Smile?
Who Can Be Your Teacher? Your Coach? You’d Be Surprised!!
Some time ago, while biking along a brook in Sausalito, I was privileged to observe a large blue heron not even 10 yards away, in the process of looking for his lunch. I decided to stop and watch her. Witnessing him moving through the water in slow motion stealth, I was treated to an incredible… Continue reading Who Can Be Your Teacher? Your Coach? You’d Be Surprised!!
Hardest to Love
There’s a small post on the bulletin board at Martin’s (that soup kitchen I told you about?), which I looked at again this week. It says: “It’s probably the people who are the hardest to love who need it the most” My first thought when I read it was “that feels right, that makes sense.”… Continue reading Hardest to Love
“Caught in the headlights?” Not this time…
A very weird story, creepy but in a really good way. Makes me question all my assumptions…again… What do you think is going on with this one : Animals don’t normally check themselves into veterinary clinics, but that’s pretty much what happened in Rossford Ohio last week when a deer, with a badly gashed and… Continue reading “Caught in the headlights?” Not this time…