planting seeds of compassion
At the core of every Mindful Littles event we do are three Cs – Children, Compassion and Community. Earlier this week these three facets came together in an overwhelmingly positive experience, as we marched in our local hometown 4th of July parade with a community quilt made by the contributions of several families- most notably Ninon Shesgreen of Vagabond Ruth. Read more
My close friend, Mary Patel, and I piloted our first community seva event last weekend in my backyard. We invited 15 neighborhood families (one parent with children 3 years or older). For our first project, we helped an incredible organization, Youth Homes, which serves as a resource center and provides residence homes for at-risk and neglected adolescents. This was an especially meaningful project because my friend, Beth Goldberg, is the Director of Development there. An ongoing need that Youth Homes has is to supply shower/bath/hygiene essentials to their young clients who live at their residence homes. Read more