Instead of completing the item to volunteer at an animal shelter (which is an excellent, if difficult, item to execute. It's surprisingly difficult to volunteer for one of them, and I tried to volunteer with four), I went to go see the Dalai Lama last Spring with Cara at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC.
It was a beautiful day at a beautiful place. Although it was difficult to hear him, it still felt warm and glowy to be in the same room as him.
There were some interesting protests happening across the street. I had no idea that there were disagreements about the legitimacy of the Dalai Lama, but there are. "The International Shugden Community accuses the Buddhist holy leader of discriminating against the religious practice of the Buddha Dorje Shugden. "A mother goes out to buy food for her children and are turned away from the store because she practices Dorje Shugden. People are thrown out of hospitals," protester Rebecca Foley told WUSA9."
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