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Archive for June 27, 2011
Smile Newsletter: Sometimes It’s The Small Things
June 27, 2011
Collection of ideas from Smile Groups this week … “This lady was walking through my neighborhood on such an extremely hot day, realizing there are no bus stops within 5 miles, I made a u-turn and gave her a ride to her destination.” “A man held the door for me at a local coffee shop, he was so perky,I bought him a cup of tea.” “Forwarded a letter that had gone astray and paid the extra postage!” “Emptied the house — books, DVDs, etc. Advertised to come and take what you want and leave a donation in the bucket for a local charity.” “I heard of a competition that I knew I would definitely get a prize so I entered and put down a friends name and address so that they will get the prize. And it’s chocolate!” “Encouraged a guy to come out of his love failure. :)” “I picked lemons from my moms lemon tree and gave them away .. someone going to have delicious fresh lemonade for fathers day!” “Took a senior citizen grocery shopping; she was not feeling well enough to drive herself.” “Last night I helped some foreigners exchange some money into my country’s currency and then my sister and I led them to a hotel. They were lost and didn’t speak the language.” “Lending out a very expensive canopy to someone in need.” “I replaced a drummer in a band that needed one! :)” “Put a dollar inside a book I returned to the library … for either the library people or the next reader to find.”
Mother of All Languages
June 27, 2011If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. — Pearl Buck
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Good News of the Day:
The world’s 6,000 or so modern languages may have all descended from a single ancestral tongue spoken by early African humans around 50,000 years ago, a new study suggests. The finding could help explain how the first spoken language emerged, spread and contributed to the evolutionary success of the human species. Quentin Atkinson, an evolutionary psychologist and author of the study, found that the first migrating populations leaving Africa laid the groundwork for all the world’s cultures by taking their single language with them — the mother of all mother tongues. “It was the catalyst that spurred the human expansion that we all are a product of,” Dr. Atkinson said. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4579
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Be The Change:
“Each day, our tribe of language holds what we call the ‘world’ together.” John O’Donohue explores the depth of language. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4579a
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