The 10% Club

Well, it's perhaps silly to hide it, even while it's being worked on.
SO I've been drafting up a community finally for The 10% Club. It has been an intention for so long....and it feels like it's time now.
There is SO much I want to organize and put there....letters and photos from projects that I've received over the last few weeks even that I SO want to share because they've been Fueling me in magical ways.
I wanted to create a space for the idea to thrive....for Avalokitesvara's wish to be granted through all of us.
Feel free to take a peek, though as I said it's still in the works.:)


Om Mani Padme Hum!

A Book to Lean On

Whenever I need a thorough reminder of WHY I'm doing this, THIS book is the perfect medicine in my bookshelf. The stories and pictures shake me into an understanding of where we stand comparatively. And something in my chest makes it impossible to turn away. This is our family, all.



Material World- A Global Family Portrait
In honor of the United Nations-sponsored International Year of the Family in 1994, award-winning photojournalist Peter Menzel brought together 16 of the world's leading photographers to create a visual portrait of life in 30 nations. Material World tackles its wide subject by zooming in, allowing one household to represent an entire nation. Photographers spent one week living with a "statistically average" family in each country, learning about their work, their attitudes toward their possessions, and their hopes for the future. Then a "big picture" shot of the family was taken outside the dwelling, surrounded by all their (many or few) material goods.
The book provides sidebars offering statistics and a brief history for each country, as well as personal notes from the photographers about their experiences. But it is the "big pictures" that tell most of the story. In one, a British family pauses before a meal of tea and crumpets under a cloudy sky. In another, wary Bosnians sit beside mattresses used as sniper barricades. A Malian family composed of a husband, his two wives, and their children rests before a few cooking and washing implements in golden afternoon light. Material World is a lesson in economics and geography, reminding us of the world's inequities, but also of humanity's common threads. An engrossing, enlightening book. --Maria Dolan

I would encourage anyone/everyone to have this book on hand. It is indescribably inspiring.:)

Holy Moment

Let's. What? Right now? Yeah. ok.