After taking a long, hard look at my American life and all I have around me, I am realizing there is so much more. We take our daily existences for granted and we shouldn’t. His Holiness The Dalai Lama and the Buddhism practicing people of Tibet were up-rooted and run out. They grow up studying and in turn teaching acceptance, do-no-harm, PEACE, joy and human kindness yet have no real country to call their own. Actually, that’s not true. They are allowed to return but risk being killed or imprisoned and tortured for openly or secretly practicing a religion that promotes peace and understanding. I don’t understand. They don’t have HALF of what I have and at the same time they have SO much more than I could ever dream of having. What I have is just stuff.

I am selling everything I can to raise money so that I may volunteer in Dharamsala for 6 months to a year and I don’t know if it’s enough. I look forward to living with the Nuns, giving them what ever they ask of me in the best way I know how.