On a recent plane to Philadelphia, the woman next to me said:
I'm an executive in a tech firm in Seattle. I love my job, but my heart lies with an orphanage in northern India, in Utter Pradesh. I've visited there every year for the past 10 years, watching those precious children grow up. They have so little, but they do so much. And I try to help every way I can.
Talk about perspective, it gives me plenty.
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An appreciation of little things that make us human. "What Do You Love?" is a question that I sometimes ask of new acquaintances, and old friends too. I’ve gotten some very surprising and touching answers over the years...
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
All To Yourself
Yeah...Why do you ask?
Well, I have one. It's by my dad.
Will you share it with me?
Sure. It goes, "True happiness is having something that you love that no one else loves, because that way it's all to yourself and you don't have to share it."
Nice. What do you think it means?
I dunno. Maybe that it's OK to be myself and follow my dreams without worrying what others think about me.
Your dad sounds like a smart man.
He is.
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Living Balls of Earth
Told to me before dawn in the rainforest...
This may be way too obvious, but I love frogs and toads.
Ever since I was a kid, crawling around on my knees on my grandfather's farm, I've loved them...finding them, holding them, watching them. Little living balls of Earth.
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