It’s all about the starfish that got thrown back isn’t it?

You know the story about the man walking along a beach picking up starfish and throwing them back into the water? Those observing him thought it was futile to be looking for starfish and rescuing them and returning them back into the water. He couldn’t possibly throw all the starfish back . . . More

Diane on top of the world in the Himalayas: The team is due back this week. The report is that the glass clinics were great! They often stopped on the side of the road to test eyes. Specifically, however, they tested eyes at the school in Nizu, another at the guest house where they were staying in Nizu, and then another at a close by village named Habba . . . More

Ni Hao,

This is our second day in the outer post city of Zhongdian, the border city that has exploded in the past nine years since I was last here. It sits as the last large settlement prior to routes leading high in the Himalayas . . . More