Today I'm talking about judgment, love, and caring across a few different environments. An attempt to understand and hopefully shed some personal baggage in final preparation for our flight on Saturday!
Toward Simplicity
As our departure date looms ever closer, a brief look at some ideas and concerns related to simplicity, solidarity, and technology.
On Social Justice
Good Shepherd Volunteers (GSV) is grounded in 4 tenets; social justice, simplicity, spirituality, and community. As we prepared our application for GSV in January, we spent time reflecting on each of the tenets and what they meant to us. I have been thinking it would be a good idea to spend some time reflecting on the tenets again in preparation for the commencement of our journey. I guess this is part 1.
Read on to here more about my thoughts on my growing role with regard to social justice, my thoughts on social justice in America, and what I think social justice may look like in Thailand.
Gratitude
After a surprise vacation for my dad, and a couple major car accidents, I spend some time reflecting.
I try not to take many things in my life for granted, but inevitably I do. How can we be thankful for all that we have, all of the time? It's just impossible.
The Beginning
Wow, the first blog post, which is happening while on my first Megabus ride. I am not sure that I thought blogging would ever be something I did, and I feel pretty ambivalent about it. I have no idea what I expect it to be, or what it will actually be. I also consider myself naive, or at best a novice, when it comes to blogging and almost all of the topics I will be writing about: Thailand, Buddhism, social justice, spirituality, volunteering, and myself. I did, however, create a website for this purpose, so I better use it.