Don’t Wait For Luck, Go Out And Get It

Come On Down

  Come on down! You’re the next contestant on the Price Is Right! –Bob Barker If you grew up watching TV in the eighties like I did, you’re all too familiar with that line Every day, Mr. Barker would call someone’s name randomly from the audience, and the person whose name was called would excitedly [...] Read more »

Water Under The Bridge

Bridge

DAY 3 of our Everest Basecamp Trek For Water Campaign  “Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.” –Earl Nightingale   We slept soundly on Day 2.  The 6 hours of trekking just about drained all the fuel in our tanks. We [...] Read more »

It’s Never Too Late To Make Your Move

Making A Move

  “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” –Mother Teresa     To our longtime readers, this post will come a bit from out of the blue. The fact is, the last time I posted was nearly four months ago, when I started the series on our [...] Read more »

A Journey Of A Thousand Miles…

Himalayan Mani Stone and Porters

DAY 2 of our Everest Basecamp Trek For Water Campaign A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. –Lao Tzu In our case it will be 57 miles. That’s the roundtrip distance from Lukla to Mount Everest Basecamp, and today we would be taking the first long-awaited step to begin this odyssey. [...] Read more »

Be Grateful For The Struggles

A young Burmese girl offers alms of rice to a young male monk. Inle Lake, Myanmar.

  The problems and difficulties we face in life are not all like natural disasters. We cannot protect ourselves from them merely by taking suitable precautions, like storing food. Despite breaking our back working in the fields, the harvest fails; despite working night and day at a business venture, it is not successful. if we can transform [...] Read more »