Tag: education
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Wisdom & comedy
Today starts a series of teachings by the His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people and Buddhists around the world. He is guided by three major commitments: the promotion of basic human values in the interest of human happiness, the fostering of inter-religious harmony and the welfare of the…
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Appreciating rain
I just spoke to the volunteers, all huddled in a mud hut in the village waiting for the rains to stop. Twice a year the rains fall on the Amboseli plains of Kilimanjaro, literally bringing life. Within hours the “Savanna” – the semi-arid landscape made up of grassland, plains, kopjes, and marshes – changes. There are very few trees…
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Power of the Amazon Music AND People
This video was made by meu amigo, Leo Chermont, in his studio. He wanted to record the power and the beauty of the people. As he says on the video “Trabalhar assim… nao tem coisa melhor” <With work like this there couldn’t be anything better> Leo, in sunglasses in the video, is also accompanied by…
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Scary world
Anupma wrote to me this morning. She arrived back from the Mara and took a flight to Zanzibar in order to spend more of her “limited time” there. As a photojournalist she’d been asked to submit a story but had no idea of what was about to unfold. “..it was insane here .. couldnt stop…