Pit bull puppy acts as Seeing Eye dog for blind brother

Via Newsday Meet Jermaine, the patient pit bull mix who acts as a loving guide for his blind brother Jeffrey. The abandoned 6-month-old duo was discovered roaming the streets of Philadelphia in September. Animal welfare workers soon realized that the pair couldn’t bear to be separated. “They’re always pretty much touching each other,” Ray Little, director of […]

Ashoka The Great and Spreading Buddhism

In today’s selection — the first great unifier of large parts of the Indian subcontinent was Ashoka the Great (304-232 BCE), who converted to Buddhism after witnessing the bloody horrors of his own wars, and used the moderating influence of Buddhism to help unify the widely different peoples within in his realm. He sent missionaries […]

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Where we are: La Serrana Eco Farm and Hostel, Salento, Colombia

We are back near the cloud-forest 🙂 This is an amazing place for $11/night. A small bit about Salento: Salento is a small little town in Quindío , in the Zona Cafetera region of Colombia. Zona Cafetera also known as “Eje Cafetero” is a coffee going region in the Andino region in Colombia. The terraced slopes of the Zona Cafetera yield nearly half of Colombia’s […]