This Blog is a collection of essays and journal entries on topics related to a book I am writing called BAREFOOT HEROES. The book narrates the lives and work of seven ordinary people around the world who have done extraordinary things to solve problems in humanity relating to poverty, the spread of disease, basic survival, criminal rehabilitation, education and the environment. It is an account of their work, and also their lives and the decisions, acts, thoughts, fears and hopes that led to them do what they have done. It is also an examination of a potentially different model for working with some of the world’s most pressing problems as these individuals have succeeded where governments and large aid organizations have not. My intent in writing this book is to explore not only what these people have done and how, so that others might learn, but also to demystefy them from being ”larger than life” humans so that some might realize that we too can make this kind of difference in the world if we so choose. In coversations with the people about whom I write it is their wish as well that their lives are told honestly with attention to their strenghts as well as their shortcomings. After all, they have told me “we are only human, not gods”.
The writings you find on this site are my journal entries, observations and accounts of exeriences I have had while writing this book. I have also written about other people I have met who are not featured in the book, but are included here so that you can learn about them and hopefully be as inspired as I was.
The section called “Other Projects and Interests” is where I have stored some of my hobbies and musings not related to the book.
