Ball, our office administrator, got off his motorbike and walked into Creative Life Foundation in his customary button down shirt paired, not with the expected dress pants, but with basketball shorts. It’s an all staff office cleaning day. He’s dressed to get down to b...

Creative Life Foundation is a diverse place.  We had a group meditation last week during which our staff lifted up prayers in 3 different languages. We are young and old(ish), transients and homebodies, single and married, Western and Eastern.  We have varied economic,...

Open my mind to learn ~ เปิดใจเรียนรู้

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สำหรับประสบการณ์ในชีวิตของฉันและในชีวิตของผู้หญิงที่ฉันพบเจอและทำงานด้วย ฉันเห็นว่าการ ‘เปิดใจเรียนรู้’ เป็นสิ่งที่สำคัญ เเละฉันใด้รับรู้ว่าในชีวิตของคนเราในแต่ละวัน ในเเต่ละสัปดาห์เราจะใด้พบพบเจอประสบการณ์...

Welcome to 2019 and welcome to OUR blog, the new blog series for 2019, where this will be the space for the story of US our community to share with you our readers and partners.  

At Creative Life Foundation, we are a community of friends committed to breaking cycl...

2018 was another great year! One of my favorite recent memories was during a week in Northern Thailand, visiting with Naam Fon and seeing how our scholarship program to vulnerable children in the north has expanded and developed this year. The time during my visit remi...

The world is a mess right now, maybe it always has been.  This is actually one thing we can all agree on and are all worried about.  We turn on the news or avoid the news. We get involved or start planning to move to the mountains.  I think you get it.  And even in the...

That day Father Abbot turned to us with just as much ease and facility as if he had nothing else whatever to do but to give the first words of advice to two postulants leaving the world to become Trappists. ‘Each one of you,’ he said, ‘will make the community either be...

Teaching (substitute your own profession here) is hard enough but then we add to the equation teaching while human and oh lord is it ever hard.  You are just sitting there helping a student or preparing a lesson (add in your own professional tasks) and then wham t...

“ลงมือทำ” Naam Fon the project leader of Phalang Jai* coined this phrase as a vision mantra to guide her volunteers, literally it translates ‘down hand do’, she instructs her volunteers to embody their service to put hands to ground and do! 

I will be curating the Creat...