Giving Tuesday

  If you are an American you certainly are aware of “Black Friday” and perhaps now “Cyber Monday”. Both of these days focus around one thing in particular….spending money on material purchases.  The masses will literally line up for hours before store openings on the Friday after Thanksgiving, while online companies offer massive discounts to […]

A Thankful Heart

I am an American who loves to celebrate holidays.  It was not until I moved to France until I realized how much I appreciate a few specific celebrations. Thanksgiving is one of those holidays that officially is not celebrated as a day off here in France.  In fact, on November 28 while Americans back in […]

Are you in over your head?

When someone asks us that question a lot of considerations come to mind. The answer is in fact different for each and every human being on the planet. In the West we would likely consider how many things we have purchased on credit like a home or car or new TV or private school. We […]

Lincoln Said it best

When Thanksgiving became our national holiday there were no Black Fridays or Cyber Mondays although the skies were indeed black with the smoke and gunpowder covering the fields of the civil war. Lincoln knew that in spite of his stand with the Union in the military conflict the hurt and sorrow being inflicted across the […]

Power to The People Right On

This morning after multiple midnight chatting sessions with friends The Orchids of Light Foundation added 8 more of a much needed 60 supporters to theoretically close the gap on the challenge that has continued to allude us for 12 days. I waxed poetically about why so many people didn’t respond to helping a community in […]

An Architecture of Love

One year ago from my home stay rooftop in Nepal; on one of only two days when the smog of Katmandu had lifted, I could see the Himalayan range commanding the northern frontier. It stretched across the horizon in every direction. As the dawn broke over the peaks and the white snow-caps came into view, […]

Moving and Shaking

October was all about moving; mind, body, soul and physical locations. It was an everyday flat out session with boxes, auctioneers, relocation trucks, hurricanes and misplaced remorse. It was a time where friends stepped in and made sure I was eating and that no bed sheets had been forged into hangman loops. There was no […]

Special K

Last Saturday I threw a small dinner party as I always do when I return to the farm after a long hiatus. Whenever I must leave this place again after only a few days it seems even more important and urgent that I gather with friends so I do so as quickly as possible. On […]

Get Real…This is no crisis

I have been blessed to travel the world for a year and return with some assets intact, a woman who thinks I’m not crazy and a son on the way. Sure, I have no job, I’m scared as heck and completely confused why in God’s name I would be leaving a perfect 10 of fiscal […]

The Incomperable Lady Di

Diane hails from Whales, is a semi-retired trauma care nurse and was, as are so many seekers, moved by something unknown to pack up a suitcase full of medical supplies and fly it, along with herself to Ethiopia. She wanted to volunteer somewhere in Africa and the reports about the relative safety of this country […]