Tag Archives: girl

Crayfish

Eating crayfish is the same as chasing a girl. You look at it and find it appealing and after you approach it, you find it isn’t that easy to eat.

— Singer Rynn Lin

Suka Laxmi Tamang, Room to Grow Girls Scholar from Nepal

Title page to Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education

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The Room to Grow girls’ education program provides much more than an education for girls in need. It provides the opportunity for a future – for each girl, her family, and her community.

Suka Laxmi is eight years old. She loves to dance, sing, and read storybooks. She is a shy and well-disciplined girl both at home and in school. In the future, she hopes to be a teacher and impact other children’s lives for the better. Read more... (236 words + 1 image, estimated 57 secs reading time)

Life Work

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

— William Lyon Phelps

Yes We Can

It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.

Yes we can.

It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom.

Yes we can.

It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness.

Yes we can.

It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballots; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Read more... (333 words + 1 image, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

Are You Still Carrying Her?

An old monk was once traveling together with his discipline. The journey wasn’t too smooth because the road was muddy. It had rained heavily earlier of the day.

Coming around a bend, the old monk and his young student met a lovely young girl in a pretty dress standing by a stream. She explained that she wanted to cross the stream but didn’t know how. The heavy rain flooded the stream to almost waist deep with gushing water and there was no bridge in sight. Her mother was ill so she needed to get home quick to take care of her. Read more... (258 words, estimated 1:02 mins reading time)