A New Year for New Thinking

Christmas and the associated breaks bring us time to reflect with family and friends.  We may have spent some time complaining about the travails and plights of the world, but by far, we need to acknowledge that the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives than they ever have.

We need to be careful to give “air time” to the striking progress that is taking place and to celebrate it.   Let us challenge ourselves to be positive in this New Year – to spend less time focusing on suffering, flaws and disappointments and more energy on elevating goodness. As Bill Gates said,  “The belief that the world can’t solve extreme poverty and disease isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.”

We are thankful to all of our Ishan Gala patrons who have helped us in the past year.  We have changed the lives of families who have children with cancer and we are supporting research that could one day end neuroblastoma.

Keep being a beacon for the good in the world!

-Alice Gentry-Lingerfelt

Director of Operations