Damn, it is SO easy when living in a place like Los Angeles (not that there are any other such places on Earth) to get sucked into the day-to-day superficiality of this strange, strange, incestuous bubble world we are trudging through. Don't get me wrong...it's plenty fun and plenty stimulating, but I feel extremely fortunate to have people in my life who always manage to snap me back into the REAL "reality" right when I need it the most.
For reasons I have yet to understand, the majority of the truly solid and substantial people who have come into my life the past 2 years have come - whether directly or indirectly - from my time in India.
One such person is a girl named Maggie with whom I worked as a volunteer at a children's home in Rishikesh called Ramana's Garden. She was 19 at the time, and one of 3 of us volunteers who actually lived on the compound with the kids 24/7. I struggled a lot with my feelings of inability to give enough of myself to the kids, but I have never in my entire life seen anybody so perfectly fit in their true calling. Maggie literally ran the place. The woman who owns it was never around, and the teachers and other volunteers (including myself) were just able to commit to constant, round-the-clock service. But Maggie was there...all the time. She did everything. It was mind-boggling and truly humbling because it was so effortless to her and you could tell that she couldn't possibly imagine doing anything else.
Well, it's been a year and a half since I left Ramana's, and Maggie, and since then she has opened up her own Children's Home in Nepal.
www.blinknow.org
She is truly amazing. Check out the website, and keep it in mind for donations or for anyone you know who may be interested in volunteering.
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