The Man Who Built Thousands of Toilets in India

I hope you find this inspiring. Ishwar Patel, or Ishwar-kaka, died earlier this year. His obit is a beautiful tribute to an inventive Gandhian who saw a big problem in India (and worldwide) and created solutions. Check out www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4439 I'll try to put the link here, though I've had trouble before when I put in a link.
Love to all, Esther

Turner Garden pictures from Sue

Progress is being made.  Funds are needed for second phase if anyone is interested in helping out.  They are hoping for a wind turbine among other things.  Slide show done at Woodstock, not by me.    Click HERE to see the photos I received from Woodstock, which are posted on our class Picasa Website.

Sue

Our Trip to India and Nepal

We had a great two-week tour of the major sights of North India and Kathmandu. I have edited the photos into collages so that there are fewer items for people with short attention spans....not you, of course. Please enjoy them at full screen (click the title above to view the slides in Picasa).
Joy

Recent Photo of my son and Gil Austin

My son recently entered the US Foreign Service and his father, Gil Austin from our class, and I were there. Here is a photo of father and son...many of you have not seen Gil since graduation and I thought you might be interested. As you can see, Nathaniel, our son, looks just like him! Nathaniel is now in Kazakhstan.

(Posted by Barb)

Music to Start Your Day

Heart warming story and a wonderful voice of Ani Choying Drolma ; a Nepali/Tibetan “Sound of Music” story.  Click here to see the NPR story and listen to a sound track.

David Brooks of the NYT on the “New Humanism”

 

Click here to read another excellent item from today’s NYT by David Brooks.  Could it be that Obama had this all right during the campaign and has since relied too heavily on intellectual reason alone?

I think Woodstock served us all very well with this humanism bit.

Monetizing Religious Worship

 

Something is very wrong with this.  What’s worse is that the Pashupati Area Development Trust was established with help and support from the UN.

http://www.speroforum.com/a/49753/Nepal---Poor-Hindu-protest-ten-euro-to-pay-homage-to-Shiva

(Posted by Hank)