Meditation

“A mind that is in meditation is concerned only with meditation, not with the meditator. The meditator is the observer, the senser, the thinker, the experiencer, and when there is the experiencer, the thinker, then he is concerned with reaching out, gaining, achieving, experiencing. And that thing which is timeless cannot be experienced. There is no experience at all. There is only that which is not nameable.” J. Krishnamurti

Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art

Viewing Alexey's Japanese Art Collection with Masa

Here with Masa, enjoying the great Japanese art collection that Alexey has been building.

10th Reunion

President Tilghman at the annual alumni council meeting.

The Princeton in Latin America reception and Princeton Club of Brazil.

Professor John Fleming, at the Humanities reunion.

An unexpected but delightful visit to the library.

At Costa Rica Congress for 20 year of Colegios Cientificos

With Francisco Antonio Pachecho, President of Congress in Costa Rica. 20 years ago as Minister of Education, he was in charge of launching the Colegios Cientificos. A parntership with the National Universities for 2-year magnet science high schools. Highly selective and rigorous and an innovative model for developing countries.

Daniel Senise opening at Pinacoteca, with artist and Princeton club

With Samuel, Wolff from ILRio and CDI founder Rodrigo Baggio, and NY board member Noah Goodnight, visiting a leading CDI school and listening first hand to Wanderson da Silva Scrock. He was a veteran of juvenile detention centers at the age of 17. He headed the financial operation of Comando Vermelho, one of Rio’s biggest drug gangs that controlled 13 different favelas in the city. In prison, he took a course at a CDI school and started training to be an instructor. Today, he teaches at this center, a 3 hours commute each way. In the process, he has discovered two new passions: information technology and the ability to inspire others to follow his example of successful reform.

OURO PRETO and surroudings

Visiting one of the most innovative and effective CDI schools

At Vik's opening for the restrospective at MAM Rio.

Niterói Contemporary Art Museum with my family.
Designed by Oscar Niemeyer with the assistance of structural engineer Bruno Contarini

John Nash, a friendly and gracious supporter of our Princeton week in Brazil.
As his biographer says: A one line letter of recommendation: "This man is a genius" introduced the twenty-year-old John Nash to Princeton's elite math department. A little more than a year later, Nash had written the twenty-seven-page thesis that would one day win him a Nobel prize.

Sao Paulo Prep Program dinner

carnaval

With Ana Gabriela at EZLearn.com.br office
A great space, and check out the new web 2.0
learning platform they launched. Here with
Rodrigo and Dhaval from CDI filming and ILRIO
video podcast.