Monthly Archives: August 2008

His Holiness, the Dalai Lama and Me

In April of 2007, I had a remarkable opportunity. I was asked to film an brief interview with His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama in San Francisco. I wrote a story about this extraordinary day (and the days and days of preparation which led up to it) here. Please give it a read if you’re curious.

On the eve of the opening of the Olympics in the Peoples’ Republic of China, I thought it might be time to share this work with you here. I’m really not trying to make a political statement, but rather I just want to share the words of a man who touched my life in a real way that day last year.

It is copyrighted material, so please understand that I am exercising my rights as a citizen journalist to share this material with you. So without further ado, here is the piece.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama :: April 27, 2007

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Elephant seals

We had a lovely morning adventure today. We loaded up the kids and went out to Año Nuevo state beach in search of their resident Elephant Seals. Although it’s neither the mating season or the breeding season (the most popular times to see them) we wanted to have a day. So off we went. We parked in the main parking lot and walked the 2.5 miles or so down to the beaches where the seals congregate. At this moment in their year, the seals are molting. It’s primarily the large males who are on the beaches alongside the juveniles. The mature females are somewhere out in the Pacific between Pescadero and the Hawaiian Islands loading up on squid.

Anyway, we ran across a couple of pups who were actually up and (sort of) about. Both were kind enough to offer me the opportunity to photograph them and photograph them I did.

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Mazel tov, Hannah

I’m honored and excited to be celebrating and documenting Hannah’s bat mitzvah this weekend. We had a fun portrait session so that she’d have a nice, recent (and accurate!) photograph of her for her guests to sign.

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