Volunteer Profile: Dr. Dwana Bush
Age: 53
Occupation: Family Physician
Favorite Menu Item: Unsweet Iced Tea ("one sip is like drinking in an entire flower garden")
Occupation: Family Physician
Favorite Menu Item: Unsweet Iced Tea ("one sip is like drinking in an entire flower garden")
Why do you volunteer at the World Peace Café?
It is a pleasure to be truly of service to others. I worked as a waitress all through college and medical school. I always envisioned having a coffee shop and a book store as a part of my practice. The Rameshori Buddhist Center beat me to the punch! Now all I have to do is help wait on customers, clean bathrooms, and wipe down tables, and enjoy everyone that shows up. I often "prescribe" a patient to go to the cafe for a cup of tea and a smile before they return to the hectic day of work or home life. I am hopeful thet more of my pateints will be able to learn meditation techniques that will bring them greater peace and better health. In a way, volunteering at the World Peace Café is one very concrete thing that I can do to literally move world peace from an idea into reality.
What has been the biggest reward of volunteering? What about the biggest challenge?
The biggest reward is stepping into a community of lovely, loving, thinking, happy people. No one is ever crabby in the café. Also the café provides "just regular people" with an opportunity to be of service to others for no other reason than that of loving kindness.
Challenges: (1) Keeping my promise to do clean up when my brother wants to go canoeing down the Chattahoochee on a crisp fall Saturday. (2) Scrubbing floors and toilets with a gentle, happy heart and avoiding lapsing into a sense of either drudgery or rushing to get it done.