Category: Philosophy
An Update and a request
I also have learned over time that most places have different needs and require distinct kinds of support, care, and comfort. During my first stint in Gambia as a UN volunteer realized that I had to take a different approach to my work by assisting local people in one of the world’s poorest countries by […]
A new beginning
The challenge we now face is to realize that we must be open to ourselves and each other about the need for a new destiny
When I die
(Picture – Mustapha 3years old, whose father died before he was born and mother died 3 days after his birth, and is now raised by his grandmother with some assistance from me, tries to help in return.) When I die, I would like people to think of me as – “He tried”. I thought about this today […]
Life’s Journey – enriching lives and valuing contributions
"You will never be completely at home again because..............of loving and knowing people in more than one place." (girlgi com)
The Fragility of Humanity
Like most people, as I sit and watch the coverage of how COVID-19 is ravaging most countries of the world and killing hundreds of thousands, especially those my own age, life becomes a focus, or perhaps I should say, death enters the picture as a correlative to life. One aspect of human reaction that causes […]
Love and care are not enough
“The world, perhaps as never before is in need of spiritual rejuvenation and a foundation for living based on the human values of caring and sharing.
Community – in a survival economy
(A of view of a typical marketplace in an economy where 97% of businesses are micro. This one a fish market at one landing site for fish in The Gambia people sell fish and variety of other products.) I have argued for many years that what has been touted as ‘Globalization’ was indeed centralization. People […]
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