What a 10-Year-Old Did for the Tar Sands

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December 10, 2011 a project of CharityFocus No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. - Emma Goldman - What a 10-Year-Old Did for the Tar Sands 10-yr-old Ta'Kaiya Blaney stood outside Enbridge Northern Gateway's office on July 6, waiting for officials to grant her access to the building. She thought she could hand deliver an envelope containing an important message about the company's pipeline construction. But the doors remained locked. "I don't know what they find so scary about me," she said, as she was ushered off the property by security guards. "I just want them to hear what I have to say." The Sliammon First Nation youth put in a great effort learning about environmental issues and the pipeline in particular, and hoped to share her knowledge and carefully crafted words. Enbridge officials said they were unable to provide Ta'Kaiya space or time and failed to comment. So Ta'Kaiya stood outside, accompanied by three members of Greenpeace, her mother, and a number of reporters and sang her hauntingly beautiful song, "Shallow Waters." { read more } Be The Change Watch this short music video of Ta'Kaiya's touching song, "Shallow Waters." { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Top Ten Kindness Stories for the New Year Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time Life is 'Baeutiful' Kids on Love 5 Powerful Tools for Reflection A Professor's Lesson 30 Years Ago Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes: A Lesson in Tolerance How Innovation Happens DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 111,016 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other CharityFocus projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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The Journey of a Basketball Player Turned Poet

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December 9, 2011 a project of CharityFocus A poem should not mean. But be. - Archibald MacLeish - The Journey of a Basketball Player Turned Poet "I started writing this terrible, I call it an awesomely bad, novel. I was going out with this French woman and I told her about it. I told her 'This book is just juvenile. I don't know how to do this.' She said, I have a friend of the family, a writer, and maybe he can help you with it. I agreed with that. So the next thing I know, I meet this little French guy with the glasses. He says to me, 'I don't want to read your manuscript, but from what you've been telling me, it seems to me you need to get control over the language. So it might be good for you to read poets. Read poets and try to get control over the language.' That person, I didn't know who he was at the time, turned out to be Jean Paul Sartre." Basketball player turned renowned poet, Quincy Troupe, eloquently describes his one-of-a-kind journey. { read more } Be The Change Write about some moment that touched you. Try to find just the exactly right words to express it. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The Miracle Birth The Third Side of a Conflict Raising Kids to be Less Stuff-Centered 8 Things That Are Better Than Free See Yourself in Six Billion Others A Payment, 38 Years Later The Child Who Paints Like An Old Master Bill Moyers: Naomi Shihab Nye DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 111,007 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other CharityFocus projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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An Old Japanese Love Warrior

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December 8, 2011 a project of CharityFocus If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - An Old Japanese Love Warrior "This so enraged the drunk that he grabbed the metal pole at the center of the car and tried to wrench it out of its stanchion. I could see that one of his hands was cut and bleeding. The train lurched ahead, the passengers frozen with fear. I stood tip. I was young and in pretty good shape. I stood six feet, weighed 225. I'd been putting in a solid eight hours of aikido training every day for the past three years. [... But] my teacher taught us each morning that the art was devoted to peace. 'Aikido' he said again and again,' is the art of reconciliation. Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate other people, you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.' I listened to his words. I tried hard." Author Terry Dobson shares a riveting story. { read more } Be The Change Got conflict? Resolve it skillfully, by first connecting with your "adversary's" suffering. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy The 3 A's of Awesome Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time Living Without Money For 13 Years A Professor's Lesson 30 Years Ago 29 Lessons From Travelling the World Mall Shoppers Get a Surprise How One Teenager Used Her Life Savings DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 110,985 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other CharityFocus projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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Embrace: A Solution That's Saving Infant Lives

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December 7, 2011 a project of CharityFocus Love ... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. - Kahlil Gibran - Embrace: A Solution That's Saving Infant Lives Millions of children under the age of five die from hypothermia -- their body temperature is too low because they don't have enough fat to maintain a healthy weight. In 2008 business student Jean Chen and a small band of classmates put their heads together to prevent such tragic losses. Their work led to the founding of Embrace, a nonprofit organization that created an innovative baby wrap that could save thousands of babies' lives in developing countries. Embrace's original team members met in a social innovation class at Stanford. { read more } Be The Change Consider donating warm clothes or blankets to a homeless shelter this winter. And learn more about Embrace's inspiring work here. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy Top Ten Kindness Stories for the New Year The Power of An Open Heart 5 Powerful Tools for Reflection Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes: A Lesson in Tolerance The 'Before I Die' Project Mall Shoppers Get a Surprise Kindness Goes Around, and Comes Around DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 111,012 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other CharityFocus projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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