How could I not have read Banker to the Poor earlier? But I’m glad I just did—thanks to my daughter’s prompting—almost 12 years after this autobiography of the visionary micro-credit pioneer, Dr. Muhammad Yunus was first published. Banker to the…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
Blog Archives
Knowing Beans and Being Catholic. . .
My small harvest of beans grown on the lanai that wraps around our apartment feeds who I am as a Catholic in all kinds of, maybe muddled, ways. For Catholics, the idea of seeding and bearing fruit and harvesting runs…
Tagged with: Ahupuaa, Charles Reppun, Jaipur, Jesus the Gardener, Jon Osorio, Mission Sisters of Ajmer, Myanmar, UCANews, Value of Hawaii
Posted in Feeding the Hungry, I BLOG, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Posted in Feeding the Hungry, I BLOG, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Reading Lolita in Tehran and Weiner in Washington D.C.
I finished Azar Nafisi’s wonderful memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran just as the story of Weiner’s online sexual antics broke. Nafisi’s memoir of resistance to tyranny through the liberating power of literature makes the point that one should not let…
Tagged with: Azar Nafisi, Bellow, John Ensign, John Profumo, Lolita in Tehran, Weiner
Posted in I BLOG, Politicians and their Lies, Politics and Religion, Readers of the Book, Sex and Politics, Survival, Transformation, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Politicians and their Lies, Politics and Religion, Readers of the Book, Sex and Politics, Survival, Transformation, Uncategorized
On Tiara Street: Grace at Work
Just enjoyed the blessing of a couple of days in L.A. with old friends, Gwen and Richard Mayer. If art is a gift of grace, their lovely home on Tiara Street is grace in abundance. Bright splashes of color on…
Tagged with: Art, Grace, Gwen Mayer, Richard Mayer
Posted in Art, Friends, Grace, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in Art, Friends, Grace, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Deaf
What a sad, sad, parade of powerful men making the news. Their predatory behavior is damning enough. But the behavior of each one also speaks to a spiritual and emotional deafness to those in whose midst each man built his…
Tagged with: Belgian Bishop Vangheluwe, DKE, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMF, Schwarzenegger, US Bishops, YAle
Posted in Business and Justice, Family and Friends, I BLOG, Politicians and their Lies, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in Business and Justice, Family and Friends, I BLOG, Politicians and their Lies, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Of Gods and Men. . . and Jon Stewart
I watched Of Gods and Men the same week the news was filled with images of exultation at the killing of Osama bin Laden. The journey from Jon Stewart’s testosterone-driven treatment of bin Laden’s death on the Daily Show to…
Tagged with: Algeria, Daily Show, Gods and Men, Jon Stewart, Osama bin Laden
Posted in Catholics and Culture, Colonization, I BLOG, Movies, Muslims, Readers of the Book, Uncategorized
Posted in Catholics and Culture, Colonization, I BLOG, Movies, Muslims, Readers of the Book, Uncategorized
Emmaus: Seeing and Surrendering
. .while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight. Then they…
Tagged with: Admiral Bob Kihune, Battleship Missouri, Bishop Larry Silva, Dignity of life, Emmaus, Kamemehameha Schools, Kitty Hawk
Posted in Careers, I BLOG, Journeys, Self-Discovery, Uncategorized, Vocations
Posted in Careers, I BLOG, Journeys, Self-Discovery, Uncategorized, Vocations
Maundy Thursday. Good Friday. Easter
We call these holy days by names now so familiar their meaning recedes. We troop to service on Maundy Thursday, knowing we will witness the reenactment of the washing of the feet of the apostles by Jesus at the Last…
Tagged with: Hogan Entrepreneurs, Homelessness, Ramsay Taum; Jay Fidell; Easter bunny, Tavis Smiley, taxes
Posted in Budget, Easter, Good Friday, Hawaiian Values, I BLOG, Maundy Thursday, Taxes, Uncategorized
Posted in Budget, Easter, Good Friday, Hawaiian Values, I BLOG, Maundy Thursday, Taxes, Uncategorized
What is a kyl?
Apparently it is a lie, otherwise known, according to the office of Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona as something “not intended to be a factual statement.” As in stating, as Senator Kyl did for the record, that “well over 90…
Make that leap, Bill Maher.
Bill Maher makes me laugh. And cry. His radical simplification of complex issues is both laugh-out-loud funny — and gross. He pierces through the gullibility of people who let themselves be instruments of the self-interest of the rich and powerful…
Tagged with: Bill Maher, Common Cause, Ernest Angley, Joel Osteen, John Gardner, Sarah Palin
Posted in Christian Politicians, Faith, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Proofs for God, Stand up Comedy, Uncategorized
Posted in Christian Politicians, Faith, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Proofs for God, Stand up Comedy, Uncategorized
Dawn Morais 