Great series and a beautiful way to weave in Blog Action Day. We live in a remarkable time, when sharing knowledge and resources has never been easier.

So now the trick is — uniting for the greater good. I think we are seeing examples of that popping up all around us.

It’s good for our souls and good for our world.

Thanks,

Drew

how important it is to accept and work with the fact that people – even those within our own societies – experience life in very different ways and therefore solutions for some people’s needs will most likely not be the same as those that would suit us.

So true.

Working there during this time was an eye-opener for me and the foundation of my understanding of how important it is to accept and work with the fact that people – even those within our own societies – experience life in very different ways and therefore solutions for some people’s needs will most likely not be the same as those that would suit us.

That’s something that was made clear to me again more recently while I was teaching Art at my alma matar in St. Lucia – the teacher I’d get a ride to work with and I would have intense talks about how difficult it was to communicate with a lot of the youth – they are using a whole different language and method of communication and just don’t get a lot of what we’d say because their experiences of life don’t match ours at all.

I think we lose a lot of our potential as a world through ignoring the different realities we all live in and not being able to step back and see another’s world as best we can from their view. It’s not easy, but much could be improved for all of us with initiatives like Mariotti and Geldorf.

In our own small ways today, I hope we help too.