I keep saying to myself I should write something about my work and my creative pursuits on this blog but it always ends up being personal or spiritual things… Ahhh well, I promise the next post will be more music related! Exciting things are happening! As I watch how children are being raised, raise 2 […]
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Today is the two hundredth anniversary of Bahá’u’lláh’s appearance, one of the greatest spiritual teachers in humanity’s history. I had the blessing of working on two albums to commemorate this occasion, ‘The Ancient Beauty‘ by Elika Mahony, and ‘King of Peace‘ in Chinese for the Baha’i Community for China. Like myself, Many lives in every
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My blog has been quite vacant for many years. How to write about the challenges of moving to a culture completely opposite to your own, and the process of your life falling apart, your failure after a decade of trying, in denial, to fix problems that were unfixable and loss of the chance to be
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“There are good and bad newspapers…Those who play for their own little selfish ends give no true light to the world and perish of their own futility” – Abdu’l-Bahá, New York, 1912 Abdu’l-Bahá in America
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A new life is, in this age, stirring within all the peoples of the earth; and yet none hath discovered its cause or perceived its motive. Consider the peoples of the West. Witness how, in their pursuit of that which is vain and trivial, they have sacrificed, and are still sacrificing, countless lives for the
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Today, on the inauguration of Baha’i Rights Day, most people are posting about the persecution of Baha’is in Iran. But persecution of Baha’is is certainly not limited to Iran. Over a month ago, I posted about how we were facing discrimination in adopting a Korean baby due to our being members of the Baha’i faith.
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I wanted to express my appreciation and gratitude for all the messages and support we have received since announcing the challenges as Baha’is we’ve been facing in adopting a baby. Your prayers and positive energy have been effective though! 2 Baha’is on the National Spiritual Assembly of Korea visited the agency we’re dealing with there
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Recently, after 4 years of trying internationally, we were ecstatic to receive a proposal to adopt a baby boy from Korea in April. We were shocked to hear yesterday that the government adoption agency in Korea, Social Welfare Society, has suddenly refused our adoption based on our membership to the Baha’i faith. The adoption would
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“If long cherished ideals and time honoured institutions, if certain social assumptions and religious formulae have ceased to promote the welfare of the generality of mankind, if they no longer minister to the needs of a continually evolving humanity, let them be swept away and relegated to the limbo of obsolecent and forgotten doctrines.” –
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Playing For Change: Song Around the World “One Love”: “The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.” — Bahá’u’lláh
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