practice and spread acceptance, understanding and compassion

http://www.fistulafoundation.org

http://www.endfistula.org

http://www.walktobeautiful.com

http://www.smithysbook.com

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/LRON-75PCTU?OpenDocument

I am sending money. Are you? Who wants to help?

http://interplast.org/astoryofhealing.php

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070725/ap_on_fe_st/death_cat

He said that I am an idealistic fool whose ideals will be shattered against the gruesome reality of life. Perhaps he is right. Perhaps I will die a gruesome death like those before me. I can live with that but I can’t live without my ideals. Some ideals are worth dying for, and more importantly, living for.

1. For being alive today.

2. For you being alive today.

3. For our trip to Aberdeen today. We visited http://www.codonas.com It was fun!

4. For meeting up with Alison after more than 10 years! We went to St Machar Academy in Aberdeen.

5. For Alison’s successful career as a midwife.

6. For our safe trip to and back from Aberdeen.

7. For meeting up with Pat in Aberdeen.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6222974.stm

1. For being alive today.

2. For being multilingual. I am fluent in Bengali and English. Know a bit of French, Spanish, Hindi, Urdu and Arabic.

http://www.paradoxicalcommandments.com/

The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

© Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001

http://www.sdnpbd.org/sandhani/index.php?choice=home

Sandhani is a volunteer run organisation that facilitates blood donation and storage and transfusion in Bangladesh. I have been involved with them in various ways (e.g. donating blood, volunteering, donating money, raising funds) for many years. Since 2003, my wife has been involved, too. We hope to do much more work with them.