Share the Wealth with Rose McCarty This Sunday 8 March
Come learn more about what the frickity frick is going on in this picture and what is it like to can fish in Alaska during the summer! There will be some fun tales, some props,…
Category: Friends
Sumud
A Message from Dr. Zeina Kiblawi: Finally made it to our hotel, after a 7 hour detainment and repeated (insulting and meaningless) interrogations at Tel Aviv airport. Apparently, the desire to help Palestinian neonates is…
Share the Wealth with Susan Clark and Chris Wallach: A Workshop Among the Stars Of Mindfulness and Compassion
In October, Susan Clark and Chris Wallach attended the Mind and Life International Symposium for Contemplative Studies. The Mission Statement of the Institute states: The Mind & Life Institute is a non-profit organization committed to…
Happy New Year from Wendy Lee in China
Couldn’t think of a better way to spend the last day of 2014, rafting down the Yulong river in complete solitude. First time ever ringing in the new year alone. Instead of feeling lonely, I’m…
Share the Wealth: Love and Other Lessons Learned from Ecuador
From July 2013 to August 2014, Chelsea Jaeger was a volunteer in the Rostro de Cristo program, living in intentional community with six other volunteers near Guayaquil, Ecuador. As a group and as individuals, they…
December 14 Share the Wealth with Courtney Barrett: The Path of Tae Kwon Do
I am delighted that my friend Courtney Barrett will do our next Share the Wealth on how and why she got into Tae Kwon Do in her early 30s (she recently received her black belt)….
Share the Wealth with Hope Menninger: An Exercise in Compassion
From Hope …One of my favorite songs is “What Sarah Said” by a band named Death Cab for Cutie. Sarah’s punchline appears near the end of the song: “love is watching someone die.” After my…
Word of the Day
Word of the day, via Abbie Amico: In the Filipino language of Tagalog, there exists a word by the name of Kapwa. Literally translated it means “I’m not me without you” but as with other…
Connected
I am connected to Lindsay We are really into our notebooks I am connected to Sarah When she was my 18 year-old student I was her 39 year-old prof I am connected to Jane We’re…
Share the Wealth with Carol Mock on Sunday 19 October: The Gentle Ladies Society
For many years, four women from different parts of the world have been meeting several times a month to read and discuss classic texts from the religions of their childhoods: Jain and Hinduism from India,…