Sometimes A Smile Is Your Best Defense!
Our correspondent Travis Thomas from Live Yes, And shares what he has learned in his recent meet-ups about offering unconditional respect, no matter what.
Kindness, the Open Door to Respect
It pierced my heart – the prospect of an innocent child being discriminated against solely because of his or her race, gender, religion or other aspects of life.
Astonish a mean world
...with your acts of kindness.
MARCH For Kindness
This could be Humpty Dumpty Time. Entrenched systems that have appeared immune to change, sacred cows of legal “precedents,” calcified thought-models of behavior – all are being exposed for the cruelty and injustice they represent. Change is being demanded in marches throughout the country.
The broken world awaits
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness in the world....
Caring for everybody
A spiritual perspective about the significance of philanthropy. [meditation video, 1:42min]
The atmosphere of Love, not Smoke, is in the air!
I am one of thousands of evacuees from the several devastating fires in Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino counties. Early Monday morning, my family – including husband, 93 year-old mom, cat – left our homes under mandatory evacuation.
Lifting Up the Homeless, One By One
The urban park across the street from our church has been an unofficial homeless camp for many years.
Stop. Look. And Really Really Think.
News images of desperate people in rickety boats – women, children, fathers, pregnant mothers, families – frequently made me avert my eyes. Then, I saw this.
What Is the Benefit of Feeling AWE?
Take the time to pause and open your mind to those things which you do not fully understand. You will be the better for it—and, as your feelings of awe ripple out through acts of kindness, so will the rest of us.