To be Loved — Part 2
Mumbai, the city of dreams, draws thousands of rural Nepali villagers every year to the already overcrowded streets with rumours of well paying jobs, hospitals and schools. These rumours travel on the backs of distant relatives and friends who send back stories of their success, whether true or not, luring families with bright hopes and dreams.
Making Charitable Giving More Palatable
Whether you want to admit it or not, charitable giving is probably not one of your highest priorities. You have bills to pay, food to buy, and a social life to fund, or worse, children to raise. Throwing two-dollars into the tin shaken at the traffic lights doesn’t count, not really. When it comes to charitable giving, we humans aren’t the most charitable of creatures.
Waking Up From the American Dream
When I first exposed my dream to family and friends I was asked several question which I can sum up into just one – “Why can’t I get my humanitarian dosage here, at home?”
To Be Loved – Part 1
Tears roll down Maya's cheek as she brings her orange dupatta to her face and dabs at her eye. Her cheek quivers as she stares down at the tray of fruit sitting on her lap. When she looks up, our eyes connect. I place my hand on her knee and tell her … Read more →
Carry On
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.” ~ Og Mandino … A year ago this week a pall of grief descended upon Japan. Its dark fingers stretched from Sendai to Tohoku, Minamisoma to Fukushima and the grief is still palpable.
Dead Languages: Confined to the Dustbin of History
Julia McLean explores the realm of language survival, loss of culture and how Latin has survived if only by virtue of being part of other languages such as many of the Romance languages.
Do You Understand?
I preferred my deaf friends and “my” deaf community to my hearing ones. I started freelancing as an interpreter and I attended many deaf community activities. I began to look into colleges that were predominately deaf, and look into speech therapy and sign language interpretation degrees. But, as time wore on, I found my birth family and moved to South Dakota. I did not search out a deaf community and pretty much lost touch with that part of myself. I still signed anytime a favorite song came on the radio and I started to teach my boyfriend-turned-husband to sign.
A Death in Mumbai: Ganesh’s Last Days
In the slums of Mumbai, Kane Ryan of Dirty Wall Project finds himself face-to-face with a friend’s untimely death amidst the indignity of India’s strained health-care systems and family’s seeming ambivalence.
Self-Preservation: How Protecting “Me” Impacts on “We”.
“All living beings have an innate need to preserve “self” first. It’s in our DNA,” writes Mary Rose, but where does this come from and what implications does it have on our “self” and on the world we live in?
What Causes a Person to Be Intentionally Cruel?
What causes a person to be intentionally cruel? Is it carelessness? A genetic predisposition involving a lack of empathy? A lack of proper nurturing? A culturally indoctrinated tendency? Mary Rose searches for answers.
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