Today I walked across a bridge. The sun shines down from a bleached blue sky. The air may by cool, but our spirits don’t notice, as we stand and sing under the sign, Edmund Pettus Bridge. We are in Selma, Alabama on Bloody Sunday. And no, after today I will never be the same. I [...]
Walking the streets of Hong Kong, one cannot help notice the number of vendors, pushing their carts along the streets in and out of traffic. Repeatedly shouting, “Sale! Sale! Specials items for sale!” It is not easy to avoid the aggressive sales pitches. One visitor noticed a single vendor, clearly different. The vendor was quiet, [...]
Caroline was very sad. Caroline was only six years old and her father had just died. In fact, her father had been assassinated. Sitting in the back of big black limousine, Caroline Kennedy didn’t quite know what to do with her sadness. On the seat next to her sat her nanny, Maud Shaw, and next [...]
There is a story about a kind, quiet man who prays in the Ganges River every morning. One day after praying, he sees a poisonous spider struggling in the water and cups his hands to carry it ashore. As he places the spider on the ground, it stings him. Unknowingly, his prayers for the world [...]
A great Rabbi died. He had been revered and loved by his congregation. After his death, it was decided that the Rabbi’s son, himself a Rabbi, would take his father’s place. This pleased the congregation, for the son would be “just like his father.” But after some time, there was surprise and grumbling. The son [...]
Anybody can find something they can do –and do well. I like to show people you can either stop trying, or you can pick yourself up and keep going. It is just more fun to keep going. Ben Comen Ben Comen holds the record as the slowest cross-country runner in the United States of America. [...]
To touch can be to give life. Michelangelo An eleven-year-old girl lived with her grandmother. Labeled “different,” adjustment to school was not easy. Her mother was not a reliable presence. As if life is not tough enough, her father had been recently killed. She knew him only vaguely, but not well and had not seen [...]
In September, New Yorker magazine featured an article by Johnathan Safran Foer (who wrote a novel about a boy who lost his father in the twin towers tragedy) talking about the tragedy of 9/11. “Is there anyone who hasn’t played out the nightmare of having been trapped in one of the towers? Is there anyone [...]
