This is followed by a report from a volunteer, a visitor of the facility from a school that has been cooperating with our school, containing three examples for many things that Marianne means when talking or writing about "encouraging", will follow.
We weren’t at one about two other articles to be found in this booklet, too.
The first article being the recommendatory letter of the German ambassador in Kathmandu, Rüdiger Lemp. Sure- a recommendatory letter is a great help and we’re thankful for it but – "isn’t there too much praise in it for me? It’s only supposed to judge my work and not myself!"
The second article is Lea F. Wyler’s one concerning her "colleague" in Kathmandu – "I can’t publish that!?!"
I can relate to Marianne’s reaction a bit.
On the other hand can’t she who can see the positive side of even the most run-downed person in a unique way, she who searches to build up people and make them happy, isn’t she allowed to be seen when others wish to express their respect and the admiration for her? Not only in a conversation but also in the comparative public?
We who have been responsible for the creation of this booklet are by all means thankful for these two articles (as you can see we managed to assert ourselves!).
We namely express what other people feel: much pleasure and gratefulness for the existence of so many people who are talented and help "to make this world a better place to live" with these talents as Dr. Singh put it in his article.
We wholeheartedly hope we can all participate in keeping this movement of love and justice alive.

Don’t get tired
approach this miracle
as silent
as if you were
approaching a bird.

Dear friends of our Shanti-family,

While reading this short poem written by Hilde Domin a few days ago I realized that we actually have experienced a miracle!
Our Shanti has existed for 10 years; our enormous family, as we are at the moment, accrued from small assignments. Sometimes I would never want to go through all that again although there were times when there were lots of happiness and encouraging moments. You were able to witness them reading our news letters.

A miracle

And now this forced move of our main facility with our ambulances, the workshops, the kindergarten and about 500 people, right before our 10th anniversary at the temple – how are we supposed to manage that? Where are we supposed to get the money from? In addition to that due to the political situation more and more people are haunting our facility while our food supply is diminishing – and once again I re-experienced something at Shanti which has happened so often before: as soon as the manifold emergency situations threatened to suffocate us a beautiful, golden bird seated on our hand: the earnings that Hape Kerkeling guessed for us (Pentecost of all times) in the TV-show "Who wants to be a millionaire?".