Something Good in the World brings you artwork and creative writing of refugee children from Central America in a virtual art show.
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Sep
2020
Category: Blog
20
Jun
2019
Daring to Dream
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau I have the privilege to bring vulnerable children, refugees, at-risk youth, and […]
27
Mar
2019
Walking on Water
In the continuing effort to write about the refugees from Central America, to keep telling the stories of the unaccompanied minors who come to our Earth School-to-Farm programs, I am […]
04
Mar
2019
“Tell Me How It Ends”
“Telling stories doesn’t solve anything, doesn’t reassemble broken lives. But perhaps it is a way of understanding the unthinkable. If a story haunts us, we keep telling it to ourselves, […]
03
Sep
2018
Little Little and the Buddha Boy
I just returned from China, where I visited the orphanage that we adopted my daughter from 9 years ago. It was a powerfully moving visit, mostly because my daughter, who […]
22
Mar
2018
Earth School – Digging in the Dirt: Alive Inside
For the past 12 years, our Earth School students of all ages have taken twice-yearly trips to the nursing home in our community to visit with the residents. I had […]
28
Dec
2015
Envira Pod: Mobile net-zero classroom is powered entirely by solar | Inhabitat – Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building
Probably one of the most incredible feelings in the world is the realization of an intention. The non-profit Something Good in the World and Enviragen recently completed Envira Pod, an […]
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Apr
2017
Nonprofit helps children find ‘Something Good’ in nature – Westfair Communications
Source: Nonprofit helps children find ‘Something Good’ in nature – Westfair Communications By Aleesia Forni. With chalkboards and erasers seemingly a distant memory, many educators dream of classrooms stocked […]
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Feb
2017
The ‘Other’ Refugees
Unaccompanied children from Central America are seeking asylum in the United States and have nowhere to go. What can we do? Perhaps it is not about what we do, but what […]
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Oct
2016
Earth School – Digging in the Dirt: No Doodling Allowed?
When did removing children from nature become a form of punishment? Or is it meant to make nature an incentive for obedience within a system whose requirements are unreasonable? What […]