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Archive for March 2011
Smile Newsletter: The Paint On My Walls
March 6, 2011
On ‘Pay-it-Forward’ day, our family decided we wanted to pick up someones tab at the grocery store, but we didn’t know what we would say to explain it to them. We took the kids along and told our oldest to find someone checking out. I felt drawn to the first man I saw, we all agreed this was the one. It was a family with two small children. They had A LOT of items. Still not knowing what to say I went to the cashier when she rang their last item, gave her my card and told her we were paying. The mother holding the baby was confused and handed her welfare card to the cashier, her husband signaled to her to put it away. We didn’t have to say anything, the couple was deaf. We hugged and cried and left the store. It was a moment we will never forget.” — Lizbbaker
DailyGood: Like Water From a Hummingbird
March 5, 2011Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. — Ayn Rand
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Inspiration of the Day:
On a trip to Japan, Wangari Maathai learned the story of the hummingbird in the forest fire. While other animals run in fear or hang their heads in despair, the hummingbird flies above the fire time and again, releasing a few drops of water from its tiny beak. “Why do you bother?” the animals shout. “I’m doing the best that I can,” the hummingbird replies. For Maathai, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient responsible for more than 11 billion trees being planted worldwide, this story reveals the impact of principle-based decisions. Through all her work, from being the first Central African woman to earn a PhD to spearheading an environmental movement, Maathai concludes that it’s our values, not set goals or objects, that motivate us. “I saw that if people have values, they can sustain what they are doing.” http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4480
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Be The Change:
When faced with a difficult dilemma or decision, pause and reflect on your values. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4480a
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Dalai Lama Quote from Snow Lion Publications
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Video of the Week: The Dark Side of the Lens
March 4, 2011
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DailyGood: A Town Lines Up to Save An Unknown Man
March 4, 2011For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people’s love and concern for each other. — Millard Fuller
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Good News of the Day:
Howard Snitzer clutched his chest and crumpled on a freezing sidewalk. He wasn’t breathing. He had no pulse. If he didn’t get help soon, he would die. For the next 96 minutes, more than two dozen local towns folks, first responders, took turns performing CPR on the fallen man. Their teamwork saved Snitzer’s life, in what may be one of the longest, successful out-of-hospital resuscitations ever. What’s even more striking is that his saviors comprise roughly 3 percent of the town’s population! A little weak from the heart attack, Snitzer smiles, “I’m a chef. I told them I’d be fattening them up every chance I get.” http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4481
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Be The Change:
Make a choice to help someone else today.
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Dharma Quote from Snow Lion Publications
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DailyGood: What Lies Beneath
March 3, 2011The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes. — Marcel Proust
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Fact of the Day:
In 2000, the Census of Marine Life embarked on a 10-year mission to deepen our knowledge of the ocean. The study involved 2,700 scientists, 80 countries, 600 institutions, 500 expeditions and a staggering 9,000 days at sea. On top of recording tens of millions of individual marine organisms and their locations, it also identifies important climate changes. Among the discoveries of 6,000 potentially new species is a species of shrimp thought to have gone extinct 50 million years ago! http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4457
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Be The Change:
Discover the mysteries below the waves: Browse just a few of the 6,000 potentially new species http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4457a
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DailyGood: Pizza Delivery Saves the Day
March 2, 2011Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. — Sally Koch
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Good News of the Day:
Every day for the past three years, 82-year-old Jean Wilson has ordered a large pepperoni pizza and two diet cokes from the local pizza shop. One day, she took a particularly hard fall in her house that left her unable to get up. After her regular order failed to surface for three days, delivery driver Susan Guy took it upon herself to check on her, an act that saved Wilson’s life! http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4471
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Be The Change:
Check up on someone you haven’t heard from in awhile. You might just save a life!
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DailyGood: Beauty and Science: A Conversation with Ed Johnson
March 1, 2011The great men of science are supreme artists. — Martin H. Fischer
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Good News of the Day:
As this distinguished molecular biologist says, “the ultimate decision of whether or not a piece of data is going to get used is completely subjective! To put it analytically, you look at your piece of data and you decide whether or not you think it looks pretty.” He continues, “Scientists devote not just a great deal of energy in thinking about their problem, but devote a great deal of personal emotion. We get involved. I love to recall the words from a lecture Vladimir Nabokov used to give on Tolstoy. He used to say “Tolstoy wrote with the precision of the artist and the passion of the scientist.” Inevitably some person would say, “Sir, didn’t you get those reversed?” But, of course, he didn’t. Johnson goes on to talk about beauty and consciousness in the context of today’s practice of science… http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4448
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Be The Change:
Reflect on how art and science converge in your own life.
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