No Compromise on Compassion

A visitor shares her love with rescued goat Bella at The Gentle Barn farm north of Los Angeles near Santa Clarita, California.

IF there is any more memorable way that I have reconnected with old friends, I can't imagine one more relevant than with my good friend Ashaari.

Ashaari and I had only known each other previously from a theatre production a year before. I was an actor and he, a friend of the director's, was a front-of-house volunteer. Over a year later, I randomly responded to a mass Facebook message Ashaari had sent out, regarding a video project for an international initiative called the Charter of Compassion. He was looking for people to be filmed answering the question: What does the word 'compassion' mean to you?