“Reach out! Take a chance! Get hurt maybe. But play as well as you can…” MAUDE: Like a puff, Harold? HAROLD: Well, I really don’t smoke. MAUDE: It’s all right. It’s organic. HAROLD: I sure am picking up on vices. MAUDE: Vice? Virtue? It’s best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of [...]

“…I saw how it bends, flowing with the wind…” newborn – we are tender and weak in death – we are rigid and stiff living plants are supple and yielding dead branches are dry and brittle so the hard and unyielding belong to death and the soft and pliant belong to life an inflexible army [...]

“Because, you understand, they are sisters…” The Ladies have been trying lately. Trying to make me crazy by the end of summer vacation, I am convinced. They get along for brief periods of time – usually involving some sort mess and mayhem – which intersperse the fighting. Fighting over space on the couch, over which [...]

“We must be the change we wish to see in the world” – Ghandi This is a short summary of a powerful, inspirational video which documents the moving transformation of a group of teenagers as they follow Challenge Day’s “Be the Change” program. “The Be the Change movement inspires people to notice what’s happening in [...]

“…the man found himself deeply affected…” The events that led to the creation of The Mandala Trust were set in motion when a man travelling in India met and became friends with a local man, who worked as a shoe wallah.  The two would sit together each day on the side of the road as [...]