Words from the Heart

  Last July, I "met" my cousin , Diane Neas, on Facebook.  We had never met , but our connection was instantaneous. Like apples from the same tree, we grew on different branches , but our lives, our likes, and our in terests have many similiarities.  Today, it is my great pleasure to share Diane's thoughts on the journey toward healing.  She has a wisdom born of great sadness and difficulty. Her words touched my heart the first time I read them.   Journey Towards Healing by Diane Neas Traveling the path toward healing is a journey, which tends to wind up and around itself. Things I could have sworn I'd put at ease within myself appear in front of me, again and again. Recently, I had an experience which showed me how important it is to meet others on this path, where they are. The interesting concept here is: the farther you are in your own journey . . . the more responsibility you have to do so.    I'd decided, against my better ...

It has been the wisdom of many humanitarian groups that, "If you give a person a fish, they eat for a day. But, if you teach a person to fish, they eat for a lifetime." Teaching others to care for themselves not only enables them to have pride in their accomplishments, it also allows their dreams to come true...possible dreams. Those who work at Possible Dreams International (PDI) understand this not only on the intellectual level but also from the level of action. The following pictures are from PDI. They show how the team at PDI helped a community to build a water tank for clean drinking water. The community was intimately involved in the project. With Possible Dreams, the Mambane community went from drinking this: To drinking this: The Community celebrates clean water: Clean water ...something we all take for granted, yet for the people of Swaziland and other Third World countries, clean water is the difference between life and death. To learn more about Possible Dre...