These are some of the strong and wonderful women who go to India and work so hard to help women at risk there, they help them find shelter and work and avoid the dangers of poverty and sex trafficking. Maria is now one of them, and that is a beautiful thing for me to see.

The energy and color in this photograph speak volumes. Maria is on the left Hannah Gandell next to her, Kiera Jackson from Australia, and the Rev. Dahn Gandell, a warrior for love and good deeds. She first suggested that Maria come to India to teach the women there how to make potholders. It was a brilliant idea, and we are grateful.

These are brave, strong and determined women, they do much good, stand in their truth, and let no one tell them what to do.

I am very proud to love and be married to such a woman. At the end of their trips to India, the women who go on this socially conscious trip have a Sari Party, they each have a Sari custom made for them for $23. It celebrates the end of a grueling but rewarding experience, and marks their love of India and its customs.

I have to blink a few times when I see this, is this Maria there? Yes, and see how she absolutely belongs. In a way, she is gone, in a way she has come home and found herself.