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Teaching Tolerance and Compassion
Racism has been rearing its ugly head again lately in the U.S.A.; showing its face shamelessly and without remorse. It seems the election cycle often brings it out for whatever reason. But this goes much deeper than political mediocrity.
My oldest son proudly plays on a quite diverse soccer team for his high school. In [...]
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Andean Soul -PART FOUR
Chapter Five - The Moon
After our return to Azpitia, our lives carried on as usual on the outside, following the rhythm of the various village development projects, but on the inside - we had changed. Up until the time of our Andean trek, there was an ever present, palpable tension between Luis and the Gringo [...]
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Turning Point Moments
Sometimes we feel connected to complete strangers, not really knowing why. It happened to me during the World Cup soccer tournament in South Africa. I’ve rarely watched soccer on television. But this year I was gripped by it for two reasons: Because it was taking place in South Africa, which is a miracle in [...]
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Andean Soul -PART THREE
Chapter Four
Ayaviri
This was a threshold day. Here we were, straddling two worlds, standing at 16,000 feet above the sea; the Pacific slope behind us and the Andean interior in front of us - an endless landscape of peaks rising to between 16 and 24 thousand feet reaching up into a deep cobalt [...]
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Andean Soul - PART TWO
Chapter Three
Llongote Pass
We woke the next morning to the mouth watering smell of what we found out was fried guinea pig meat, which we had for breakfast before we were given a sweet send off by our hosts. Down an immense valley we walked following well traveled paths leading us back to the [...]
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Andean Soul - PART ONE
On the Pacific slope of the Peruvian Andes human traffic flows two ways: up and down the steep river valleys from villages perched at 14,000 ft. nestled amidst 18,000 to 24,000 ft. mountains down to sea level AND from valley to valley across the high passes that connect them.
Growers and herders have been [...]
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Wisdoms of an Athabaskan Elder
As a young man I had an uncanny instinct for adventure somehow, which often led me to some remarkable people in remarkable places. One such meeting was in the Athabaskan village of Minto, Alaska located just forty miles south of the Artic Circle. It was summer 1979. At solstice the sun never set!
One of [...]
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Sing With Spirit
It’s always a real eye opener what becomes important to children working together toward a performance.
We recently completed a 12 week program with 2nd and 3rd grade students culminating in a performance entitled Home Planet Earth. The whole project is chock full to the brim with wisdoms and lessons to do with the planet’s [...]
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Charity Challenge
Tough times are truly the measure of a person’s character, the measure of collective character, be it a community, a city or a nation. There are so many invaluable lessons to be learned from the world’s scattered indigenous peoples. Ways of life and living such as - no one goes hungry! And - no [...]
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In 3 Minutes
Think a moment about the elasticity of time. How it seems to drag on sometimes and whizzzz by other times. Time flies when you are utterly engaged with the all of you. There are slow times and fast times, there are green times and blue times, old times and new times… It really [...]
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