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Worth

A boy didn’t finish his meal. I told him that no one was going to want his leftovers. He shrugged and said, “The poor kids in India want to eat it.” I told him, “I doubt that. Who would want to eat someone else’s scraps, if they could choose not to? Just because they will, […]

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 […]