NATWORTHY : Seeing the World Through Their Eyes

This photo recently won 1st place in Peace Corps' Viewfinder Contest, Defining Moments. The photo will be used in a new nationwide advertising campaign and is featured in their new public service announcement. Here is the link to the video: Defining Moments

The story has been covered on the Midwest Peace Corps Volunteer blog: https://midwestpcvs.wordpress.com/category/country-of-service/africa-and-middle-east/burkina-faso/

It was also featured on the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Letters and Science News: http://news.ls.wisc.edu/announcements/ls-alums-photo-featured-in-peace-corps-psa/

Here is the link to the competition and the other winners: ‪Photo Contest

On Christmas Day, I was inside a church celebrating the holiday with the local Catholic population when I saw this young Muslim girl looking through the wall of the church. Having just arrived in a Muslim-majority village a few days earlier, I was amazed at how peacefully the different religious groups coexist.

Quotes I live by:

"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." Susan Sontag

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." Gandhi

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes" Oscar Wilde

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." John Lennon

"When it's all said and done will you have said more than you've done? " Unknown

" Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people." George Bernard Shaw

"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring." Martin Luther King Jr.

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." Thomas Edison

List of Books I've Read

1. Book Thief

2. I'm Njood, Age Ten and Divorced

3. The Namesake

4. Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now

5. White Oleander

6. The Other Wes Moore

7. Half The Sky

8. The Peace Corpse: Misadventures in Love and Africa

9. The Memory Keepers Daughter

10. Little Bee

11. Me Before You

12. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

13. How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power or New Ideas

14. The Color of Water

15. Lucky Man

16. The History of Love

17. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

18. Start Something That Matters

19. Walk in Their Shoes

20. Orphan Train

NATWORTHY

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Seeing the World Through Their Eyes

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