Home is a curious word, isn’t it? What happens as our definition of home expands? What if home can be many things? Maybe where you grew up, and where your family lives now or you live, and even where you spent three months, three weeks, or three days.
“Wherever you are, be all there.” — Jim Elliot A few weeks ago, I had the chance to team up with UK-based charity Jeevika Trust on their team visit to Tamil Nadu. Part of the visit was connecting with one of their local partners, Social Change and Development (SCAD), to explore new opportunities for the … Read More
“Donne seemed to be advocating a response that is deeper and more consistent: Any man’s death makes me smaller, less than I was before I learned of that death, because the world is a map of interconnections. As the world decreases in size, so must each of its parts.” — Roger Rosenblatt, Time essay, “Do … Read More
“Our work will at least have distracted us…it will have given us a sense of mastery, it will have made us respectably tired, it will have put food on the table. It will have kept us out of greater trouble.” — Alain de Botton, The Pleasure and Sorrows of Work It was a week of … Read More