Healthy Expat Parent

What kind of difference do you want to make? You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference -- maybe big, maybe small -- and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. Hope. Hope is not wishful thinking. It is the dogged determination to do what it is in our power to make the better future we wish for actually happen. Without hope, we fall into apathy, and in the end, do nothing. The g

Where there is an end, there is also a beginning. A whale is majestic, impossibly enormous, silently mysterious creature that has been roaming the seas like some kind of ancient god. It spends the bulk of its time doing who-knows-what unseen in the deep deep water. What we know about whales barely scratches the surface. What we do know is a creature as majestic as this is not going to quietly decompose and sink into nothing when its life comes to an end. It’s too big for t

A poem for you, celebrating what it is to be spring. Rainy, and at the same time everything new. And we are still here. Spell against indifference ~Maria Popova The rain falls and falls cool, bottomless, and prehistoric falls like night -- not an ablution not a baptism just a small reason to remember all we know of Heaven to remember we are still here with our love songs and our wars our space telescopes and our table tennis Here too in the wet grass half a shell of a robin

Wonder is not exactly knowing. “The world is full of poems,” Mary Oliver said, “but you have to be quiet to hear them.” An important...