My Chilean roommate is a raw vegan chef. RAW vegan. It sounds so restricting right? The obvious first question is, “How do you ever feel full?” His response to that was, it’s not about how much you eat, it’s about how much you absorb. Then he proceeded to prepare some of the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘change’
“When are you coming back?”
To go away is to die a little, it is to die to that which one loves. Everywhere and always, one leaves behind a part of oneself. – Edmund Haraucourt Field work requires comfort with transience. Many development workers parachute into places, build their lives from scratch, weave themselves i[...]
September 10th, 2009 - 3:50 pm § in Around Town, Brazil
Failure is Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose!
You can’t just waltz in and think you’re going to change the world just like that. Because you’re not. You might be able to suggest modifications, but when it comes to implementation, it is your audience who needs to want to change. As president Obama said so eloquently in his Back to School s[...]
