We are All the Other: A Conversation with Denise Zabalaga

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December 21, 2017 a project of ServiceSpace There are not strangers here. Only friends you haven't yet met. - William Butler Yeats - We are All the Other: A Conversation with Denise Zabalaga With a superb gift for languages, Zabalaga taught herself Farsi and traveled as a single woman in Afghanistan, Syria, Damascus, Iran and Tajikistan. She got into many tight situations, but with her faith that meeting a stranger is, "first of all, an opportunity rather than a danger," and with her uncanny openness and ability to connect with others, she always found her way out of difficulties. What was most important she said was, "the incredible generosity I experienced. Not only on a material level, but on a human level." Over and over she experienced, as she puts it, "being accepted and included as a full human being." Read more in this interview. { read more } Be The Change In the course of your day, as an experiment, if the opportunity appears where you could say something friendly to a stranger, take the chance. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Dan Siegel: The Open Mind Reclaiming the Lost Art of Walking The End of Solitude Sitting By the Well: Stillness in Times of Chaos What Would A Slow School Movement Look Like? What Matters Most? 10 Tips for Effective Communication Ten Counterproductive Behaviors of Well-Intentioned People DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 244,592 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More