COA group Ashoka U and TED I am down here in Washington DC at the Ashoka U Summit. Ashoka U is the college program of Ashoka, the world’s “leading” network for social entrepreneurs (I’m not sure who gets to decide that they are the leading network, but that’s how they brand themselves). Ashoka U envisions…
Maine
Figure out what you hope for… live inside that hope.
“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is to live inside that hope.” – Barbara Kingsolver “Poverty used to have the face of a woman, now poverty has the face of a child.” – Executive Director of UNV Kathe…
Love is not a victory march, it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah
I’ve heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don’t really care for music, do you? It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composed Hallelujah -Leonard Cohen I’m back in New York City with so much to…
I was a bride married to amazement.
When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. – Mary Oliver Last night was the full moon, and it was huge! It was the biggest and brightest full moon of 2010, appearing 30 percent brighter and…
if i could be perfectly honest for a minute, i would say that…
i love winter & snow & how color stands out against the white (and how the sunset reflects on the snow and turns everything orange, then pink, then blue) & the way my face and body feel warm under layers of clothes & how my soul seems to come alive with every deep breath of…
with the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – eleanor roosevelt
I want to (learn to)… Play this beautiful song: Comptine D’un Autre ete : L’ap. Design and make my own clothes. Grow my own food. Plant an herb garden, or work here. Volunteer at Camp Sunshine (maybe as a photographer?) Knit so that I can make socks and hats and mittens for my friends. Live…
Build me a home inside your scars… the only place I ever will belong.
The earthquake in Haiti, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country, seems like a sick joke. How can a country that has already been through so much (nicknamed by some as “hell on earth”), suffer from a 7.0 earthquake 10 miles from the capital city? I can’t venture a guess at the numbers dead. One media report…
The Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons;…
Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.
I turned 21 this past Tuesday! Yay! This is my first birthday away from home (how blessed am I that I got to spend the previous twenty with my family?) and it really didn’t feel like a birthday until a friend encouraged me to have a party. But first, my housemate Fletcher took me out…
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.” – Buddha
Pictures taken around campus!
I will write peace on your wings & you will fly all over the world
“I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world. This is our cry, this is our prayer: peace in the world.” – Sadako Sasaki (佐々木 禎子), Sadako Sasaki was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Less than ten years later she was…
I wish you joy with all my heart.
Blueberries are to Maine as the Empire State Building is to New York. Yes, really. Everywhere I go–blueberries!! Maine has blueberry scents, blueberry ice cream (and lobster ice cream), blueberry stuffed animals, blueberry pancakes, blueberry maple syrup, blueberry children’s books, blueberry calendars–seriously, anything and everything can be found in blueberry theme! When I found this…