I feel blessed for where I live, and how I live. That is why I spend over 100 hours a year giving service as a board member to two nonprofit organizations that make the world more beautiful, and more just.

Art Trek’s classroom and community art experiences immerse children in the self enhancing world of creativity – children who would not otherwise know their unbelievable potential.

The Westside Center for Independent Living connects people with disabilities, new or long-term, to the resources, training and advocacy tools they will use to build a self-determined life. WCIL’s vision is to achieve a world where everyone’s voice and value is recognized and there are no barriers to living a full life.

It’s Annual Appeal time and I hope that you will open your hearts and wallets to these excellent causes.

http://arttrek.org/donate/
http://www.wcil.org/about/donate/

I feel blessed for where I live, and how I live. That is why I spend over 100 hours a year giving service as a board member to two nonprofit organizations that make the world more beautiful, and more just.

Art Trek’s classroom and community art experiences immerse children in the self enhancing world of creativity – children who would not otherwise know their unbelievable potential.

The Westside Center for Independent Living connects people with disabilities, new or long-term, to the resources, training and advocacy tools they will use to build a self-determined life. WCIL’s vision is to achieve a world where everyone’s voice and value is recognized and there are no barriers to living a full life.

It’s Annual Appeal time and I hope that you will open your hearts and wallets to these excellent causes.

http://arttrek.org/donate/
http://www.wcil.org/about/donate/

The illustrations above remind us that more than one thing can be true at the same time, depending on perspective.

Marcus Aurelius wrote,
    Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

If this were easily done, there would be far fewer mediations. Instead, mediators must be students of perception, the attorneys’, the clients’, the court’s, and their own. When mediators help the participants see through the eyes of others, or experience the facts in another way, it cracks their rigid faith in their own point of view.

And, as the late Leonard Cohen would say,
    That’s how the light gets in.