Tag Archives: Buddhist Monks

FMM 2 6 2026 Sparking Empathy

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” ~ Nelson Mandela. I was (still am) the youngest child in my family.  This was a source of much anguish for me, for many reasons.  Only the youngest can know what it feels like to be […]

FMM 1 16 2026 We’re in This Together

“The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.” ~ Tom Shadyac. Moving across an ocean as a child, trading a grey and gloomy city life for that of a tropical rural town, meant that my relationship to the rhythms of the earth and moon changed. […]