Today’s guest blogger is our friend Rev. Julia Older, Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Redwood City, California
Just back from a month in India, I have noted that practically everyone here immediately mentions that country’s poverty, as in, “I just could not go, because I couldn’t face the poverty there.” Well, I did not find the poverty overwhelming. I think of myself as observant and empathetic, so I was surprised by my lack of discomfort.
