Be the Change

Be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi






















15,000 meals packed on our short shift.  30,00 in total.   Later he said, "I can't even wrap my head around it".

Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse

Why not become the one who lives with a
Full moon in each eye that is always saying,
With that sweet moon language, what every other eye in
This world is dying to hear? - Hafiz

I threw down the quilt, made popcorn and woke him up.  Others joined to watch the celestial show.  Right before totality, the clouds rolled in and completely obscured the blood moon eclipse.  Nevertheless, it was a heavenly night.

5th Grade

School Prayer

In the name of the daybreak
and the eyelids of morning
and the wayfaring moon
and the night when it departs,

I swear I will not dishonor
my soul with hatred,
but offer myself humbly
as a guardian of nature,
as a healer of misery,
as a messenger of wonder,
as an architect of peace.

In the name of the sun and its mirrors
and the day that embraces it
and the cloud veils drawn over it
and the uttermost night
and the male and the female
and the plants bursting with seed
and the crowning seasons
of the firefly and the apple,

I will honor all life
—wherever and in whatever form
it may dwell—on Earth my home,
and in the mansions of the stars.

- Diane Ackerman

The Beach Exhibit