The Brave Discussion

by guest blogger Marguerite Jill Dye I never could have imagined how dramatically two lives could change by sitting on a park bench.  We had just moved downtown into a high rise condominium when I went for my first walk outside, carrying Carolyn Myss’ book about St. Teresa which I had been studying.  I sat [...]

Post by guest blogger Judy Molland from Care2 Toody Maher is a woman with a dream. An artist and entrepreneur from Richmond, California, she looked around her neighborhood four years ago and decided that things had to change. Specifically, she saw a neglected, graffiti-ridden park in her neighborhood, an area that had become a dumping [...]

She devoted herself to teaching Afghan Women how to live the ‘Australian Way’ and to bring them out of some of the more traditional approaches to living, a unique experience for many of them. Voted by a major Australian newspaper in January 2005 as one of fifty Australians ‘who matter’, Mahboba Rawi founded the aid [...]

Saalumarada Thimmakka - One woman’s environmental vision leaves a lasting legacy In a land of poverty and heat there is wealth and richness in shade. Indian environmentalist Saalumarada Thimmakka can look along a four kilometre stretch of road near Kudoor in India and see her life’s work along either side, green and lush and home to [...]