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Bird watcher’s paradise: Nests, rookery, Monarch butterflies Natural Bridges State Beach This park offers viewing of overwintering Monarch butterflies October to January. The beach also offers a view of the natural arch and tide pooling. Visited: 2025-04-16 What caused joy You can get a close-up view of the rookery (while staying behind the fence). Seeing
We just met with one of the NGOs that we work with, that is based in India. This is the WAY CT (We Are With You Charitable Trust), which we advise and fund. Current and immediate needs total USD 1,862 [INR 1,35,850]. If you’d like to help pitch-in, let us know and we will gratefully
This was written the day I received my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. As I sat for the required 15 minutes after the shot, was meditating a bit. In under a year since the disease was identified, this vaccine is in my arm. So so so amazing! (In an earlier life, I was a
Did we tell you that we have a new member of the family? It’s been four weeks since Sneha and Raga invited a foster dog into our home. Her official name, given by the rescue organization is “Cookie”. On first glance, seeing how her fur is all white, the name “Lily” suggested itself, and stuck.
Audrey from ServiceSpace hosted a call of more than 80 amazing people from around the world on what does a Heart of Service do in Uncertain Times? These are some informal notes from this heartfelt sharing space. Participants include physicians treating COVID-19 patients, economists, disaster resiliency experts and spiritual wisdom elders.
Back in the Bay Area, grateful that family and friends are healthy. Such an inflection point for the human family. Our thoughts and prayers are with the worldwide caregivers, first responders, policy makers, leaders, followers, those that plan and those that react.
A divine deluge, a 11-day free festival of classical music of the compositions by Maharaja Swathi Thirunal, called Swathi Sangeetotsavam, held on beautiful grounds of a palce in Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala, India.
We share the story of a brilliant boy that had to stop his studies because his parents were poor. This is the story of the transformation of that boy’s story from a poor tailor’s son to the founder of an NGO nonprofit that pays it forward to thousands of children.
Our Himalayan village home: a longtime dream come true🙏 It has been a dream of ours to live in a small village in the Himalayas. So grateful that we are now living it 🙏🙏🙏 [Yes, this is only temporary, but so is everything else in life, right?]Our comfortable little home here is airy, cheerful and
There was this old TV show called Cheers, whose premise was that people loved to hang out at a place where everyone knew you by name and cared about you. Their theme song went: “where everybody knows your name… “. Although such a place on the show was a pub / bar with the same