Aelan Laef!

I'm learning heaps about communication.  It's said that there are no such things as stupid questions. But, through cumulated personal experience, I beg to differ. I seem to ask them on a regular basis. Thank goodness I'm surrounded by beautiful people who are very patient with me and forgive me my ignorance. It doesn't happen too often, but every once in a while I do manage to ask the most irrelevant of questions. One example being: "If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?" If travel has never, not in your wildest dreams, been a realistic opportunity for you, you don't really think about such things, do you?  The good thing is, I'm quick to realize my tumbles and sense when I've crossed the line - I'm a sensitive person with big feelers and have good intuition. Now I just need to train my feelers to work better BEFORE asking the irrelevant and puzzling stuff. It's a bit embarrassing.  This has ...

Meet Ryan. Ryan is a 6-year-old Ni-Vanuatu kid and he lives in the bush. Ryan made my day yesterday when he gave me a high five.  Yesterday Ryan joined the youth for a youth gathering at the Bahá'í center. We always start with prayers to bring unity and harmony amongst us. He said a prayer by heart. And kept going. Kept going. Kept going. At some point I realized it wasn't one prayer, but he was saying ALL the prayers he knew by heart. And he kept going, even though someone kindly tried to hint that it was ok if he just said one. SUCH a sweetheart. Today we got to eat some cake. He'd sit next to me and said: "Yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum…. yum!" Ryan also hi-jacked a Skype call I was having with a friend. Thrice.  I also have video material of him performing his special string band number. No instruments, but who needs them when you can sing and dance. In o...