NJSHow to Create Sustainable Learning for the FutureA 6year-old girl runs out onto the steps of the orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico to greet her Garden-Based Learning teachers. Local community…Sep 22, 2019Sep 22, 2019
NJS5 Do NOT Dos on Your Next Orphanage Visit.Dia del Niño is rapidly approaching and both locals and foreigners will soon flood orphanages all around the world. Just in case you…Apr 18, 2019Apr 18, 2019
NJSNow what? The Story behind Reuniting Border ChildrenSo now you’ve been exposed to it. Children, traumatically removed from parents and thrown into horrific environments where their basic…Jun 25, 2018Jun 25, 2018
NJSWe don’t want your clothes and canned food.Stop with your home building projects. Stop with your sandwiches to the homeless. Please, no more community gardens without a presence…Jun 19, 2018Jun 19, 2018
NJSLevel-upWith each opportunity to grow you have to systematically change your processes. You outgrow old ways. You get better, more evolved. At the…Sep 12, 2017Sep 12, 2017
NJSJune 14It’s been a long road to get here. I wish I had documented more. I wish I had told you about the painful stories of abuse and abandonment…Jun 15, 2017Jun 15, 2017
NJSAny Given SaturdayTourists visit an orphanage one Saturday. A bus excretes 50 passengers wanting to hold babies and play with children. Manuel, now 11…Oct 4, 2016Oct 4, 2016
NJSA year and a half laterWow! Has it really been that long since I wrote that last one? A bit of context, that was written on my 33rd birthday and a day before I…Oct 3, 2016Oct 3, 2016
NJSThe TransitionI used to be in sales. The concept of selling a tangible product that people can see and touch and use is easy. ‘Sign on the dotted line…Mar 16, 2015Mar 16, 2015
NJSNo RegretsI left my apartment in Redondo Beach today. I plan to be in Mexico within two weeks but have some preparation to do. It just got real today…Mar 2, 2015Mar 2, 2015