Little Things Mean A Lot
Every time we get a big grant, I go looking for small donors to thank. It just happened. We have gotten a grant so large I can’t find enough zeros to tell you about it. The truth is, I don’t even reliably know how many zeros this one [...]
Invitations to Life
I keep getting invited to weddings. Voluntary organisations are famous for first jobs and volunteer opportunities, which is to say we have a lot of young people around all the time. Young people tend to throw themselves headlong into their work [...]
Children First
“Children First” is a truism – one of those phrases we all believe in and think we actually practice. Coupled with women (as in “Women and Children First”) it was famously not practiced as the Titanic sank and [...]
Living Inside The Mistake, Part 2
“When you’re blind, you just can’t assume anything,” he said. “But the problem is you get a picture in your mind, and if you get it wrong, you just live inside the mistake.” I wrote a post a few weeks ago about how sometimes we make assumptions [...]
Mahi lives in your house
Mahi, age four, fell into an open borewell near Manesar on June 20th. 86 hours later, after protracted and heroic efforts by an Army rescue team, her body was pulled out and the child was declared dead. I thought about Mahi yesterday watching [...]
A birth, a death, a picnic . . .
My dearest, oldest, bestest friend (outside of my family) was born on June 21st in 1957. We didn’t meet until ten years later and our friendship did not get off to a flying start. She was the acknowledged “smartest girl” in my [...]
