[ad_1] June 6, 2021– “In the middle of the hectic streets of San Francisco,an old man, a reassuring little black dot on a rapidly moving wave, glimpses momentarily in the streets and then reappears translucent through the glass. It is only visible to those who take the time to see it. What is unique about…

[ad_1] June 5, 2021– A “global nomad” with strong African roots, Wakanyi Hoffman and her husband have been raising their four multicultural and mixed race children in seven countries, three continents, with a mission to teach them to embrace the entire world as their home. They have called Kenya, the United States, Nepal, the Philippines,…

[ad_1] June 4, 2021– When Bayo Akomolafe was a child, he prayed to God for a “faith meter”, a kind of tool that would measure his worth and ensure his place in heaven. “Of course I didn’t get an answer to my prayer,” he says. “But I got something better than an answer, I was…

[ad_1] June 3, 2021– “‘Hello. If you are out there, listen to me.’ On a hill overlooking the ocean in the city of Otsuchi, in northeastern Japan, there is a telephone booth known as the ‘Wind Telephone’. It is not connected to any part, but people come to “call” family members who were lost during…

[ad_1] June 2, 2021– “As Colombia continues to suffer violence and unrest, a family seeks to change the country’s history from one of destruction to one of restoration and healing by planting thousands of native orchids on the side of a mountain.” (5 readings) Read full story To take actionTake a small step today in…

[ad_1] June 1, 2021– “From the 3rd century AD to the present day, bowing to the Buddha is the most common practice for Asian Buddhists. However, among Westerners, the practice of bowing, compared to meditation, is not as well known. Last summer, I had the opportunity to speak with Reverend Heng Sure, the director of…

[ad_1] May 31, 2021– “Love Letters from Seaweed was created during the summer months I spent exploring the central Maine coastline. Every day just before sunrise I would bike to Birch Point Beach to witness the shores change topography and footprints. of marine life spilled by the tide. Intrigued, I photographed spontaneous configurations of algae…

[ad_1] May 30, 2021– “When Wharton management professor Adam Grant sat down to write his new book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know, he wanted to explain why executives should rethink their approaches to managing people in a modern workplace and embrace new ideas, based on systematic evidence. ” Here he…

[ad_1] May 29, 2021– Tami Simon talks to Coleman Barks, a leading scholar and translator of the 13th century Persian mystic Jelaluddin Rumi, about the extraordinary friendship between Rumi and his teacher Shams Tabrizi. (354 reads) Read full story To take actionFor more inspiration, here is a verse from Rumi, “The root of the root…

[ad_1] May 28, 2021– Change means movement. If you want to change you have to alter something. See how a skate park in a rural Indian village was transformed into shifting gender restrictions, caste restrictions and poverty restrictions through the voices of Ulrike Reinhard, the founder of the skate park, and Asha Gond, a young…