For Humanity, International Understanding and World Peace

All about compassion, humanity, international understanding, world peace and making life meaningful.

All about compassion, humanity, international understanding, world peace and making life meaningful.

During my first professional career as an international teacher, for about two decades I worked in ten countries around the world spread over five continents. Also during that time, I wrote innumerable job applications for positions all over the world from Latin America in the south to Scandinavia in the North; from The United States of America in the West to Japan in the East, and many more positions in countries in between.
What I have reproduced in this blog post, however, is my first international job application during these times of the coronavirus pandemic. Of course, it's a little different from all those that came before.

Music stirs you, in ways and for reasons one might not even understand. It had been stirring me since my traumatic, despair-filled days in Doha jail, except I didn't know why. Thanks to a welcome address given by a musician, describing how and why music does stirs you deeply, I do now.

Stand for something much much bigger than yourself: then you'll see how insignificant you are and how big a difference you can make. Like an ant that tirelessly contributes to the construction of an anthill, something million-billion times bigger than itself!

Short description of and photos from presentation I made to Professor Maya Soetoro-Ng's Leadership for Social Change class at University of Hawaii. Professor Maya is President Obama's sister.

There is no such thing as the meaning of life. You make life meaningful by the way you live.