It was late afternoon on the beautiful beach. The visiting tourist was in a great mood, clicking away with his camera. He saw a boat on the shore with a fisherman relaxing in it, half asleep. He was obviously enjoying his siesta and seemed to have not a care in this world. Contentment was written…
Month: April 2020
006. Peace Pilgrim: 28 years of walking for peace
For 28 years, Peace Pilgrim walked across the US and Canada, covering thousands of miles, carrying the message of peace. All through those years, she never used money. She wore the same navy blue slacks and shirt, tennis shoes and a self-designed navy blue tunic with pockets all around the bottom in which she carried…
005. I’ll be a humming bird. I’ll do the best I can.
We are being constantly being bombarded by the problems that we face and sometimes we can get completely overwhelmed. The story of the humming bird is about this huge forest being consumed by a fire. All the animals in the forest come out and are transfixed as they watch the forest burning and they feel…
004. Chico Mendes: Giving one’s life for the trees
The world knows him as a martyr, who died while preventing the destruction of the Amazon forests. Born in 1944 in the Brazilian Amazon, Chico Mendes earned his living as a rubber tapper. Besides extracting latex from rubber trees, the tappers also collected and sold minor forest produce like nuts, fruits and native medicines. As…
003. Julia Butterfly Hill: The woman who wouldn’t come down
The coastal redwood trees of California in the US are some of the tallest and oldest trees on the planet. They are also unique: they grow nowhere else. Yet they continue to be cut by timber companies. In the early 1990s, members of an environmental group called Earth First! erected a small platform and began…
002. What’s good and what’s bad?
There was an old farmer in a village and he had a fine horse. Like the farmer, the horse was also old. One day the horse ran away. All the villagers offered their sympathies to the farmer. “Your only horse is gone. What will you do now? How will you work on the land?” they…
001. This too shall pass
(If you are visiting this site for the first time, please begin with the page ‘About this blog’. Thanks.) There was once a king in Middle East, who was always unhappy. He constantly worried about bad things that happened, or could happen, in his kingdom. Even when good things happened, he worried that they would…