indelible places

Usually on Saturdays at daily headspa we have a bit of a lark with the weekly topic. We've been digging into it, doing things with it all week and it's time for a bit of fun.

Researching sense of place, this week's daily headspa topic, we came across the fact that this Saturday is the anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945.

The author Elie Wiesel was a prisoner there and that place shaped his entire existence. His mission and purpose in life is to remember it and to tell its story. He brings his readers not only into that experience, most particularly in his haunting book "Night," but also into all the questions about life, evil, God, the very nature of existence that this reality fused into his being.

We felt it was worth the departure from our norm for Saturdays. There's a connection here to our core mission, expressed lightly in the daily headspa mantra, "enjoy yourself." We firmly believe that people at peace within themselves, at the deepest levels, recognize their interdependence with all of life and that recognition has the power to prevent another Buchenwald; to bring liberation to the Buchenwald situations around the world today. Yeah, what we do is fun, but it's serious fun.