Ernesto Sirolli (Italian NGO guy working in Africa) When most well-intentioned aid workers hear of a problem they think they can fix, they go to work. This, Ernesto Sirolli suggests, is naïve. In this funny and impassioned talk, he proposes that the first step is to listen to the people you’re trying to help, and […]
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UNIFICATION CEREMONY Sand Ceremony The sand ceremony involves a blending of different-colored sands into a single vessel. The meaning is clear: the blending of two different beings, the bride and the groom, into a single, inseparable unit that is their marriage – the joining of their lives. Hard as it would be to separate out […]
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Weddings – Wine Ceremony There are many ways to perform a wine ceremony. We’ve seen many variations of a wine wedding and the great thing is that there is no one way to do it. You can start your own wine wedding tradition. One wine wedding ceremony is to pour a glass of wine, talk […]
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Stephen King on Giving – Vassar commencement address, 2001 http://commencement.vassar.edu/2001/010520.king.html Keywords: King, Stephen; giving; charity; commencement; What are you going to do, Vassar oh-one? Who will be the doctors, the lawyers, the writers, the painters, the executives, the politicians? Who’s going to look around at age forty-five, surprised as hell to find himself or herself […]