Monthly Archives: February 2014

A Duck’s Sacrifice

I was watching “Animals are Beautiful People,” which was pretty similar to “The Gods Must Be Crazy I & II.” Quite a few scenes really got me thinking. One particular sequence was about a duck’s sacrifice. By the shore, a mother duck was surrounded by her flock of little ducklings. The lazy and cowardly hyena […]

Don’t Judge

I came across these funny commercials for Ameriquest’s “Don’t Judge Too Quickly” campaign. Not only did they make me laugh, but these situations reminded me of how we all tend to judge based on what we see in front of us. Sometimes we’re right. Sometimes we’re wrong. How often have we considered the consequences of […]

Salt

On our Buddhist pilgrimage this year, we spent hours on the tour bus driving from one rural location to another. At a rest stop near the India-Nepal border, my friend emerged with three ziploc bags full of ripe Indian gooseberries. I asked her what she was going to do with all of those gooseberries. She […]