A Taste For Life: Alan Campbell

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February 2, 2013 a project of ServiceSpace It was cold, so this great gratitude would fill me every time the sun finally came out. I actually began bowing to it. It was amazing. The gratitude filled me so viscerally that I would just bow to the sun. Oh, thank you. - â€"Adam Campbell - A Taste For Life: Alan Campbell Every now and then, if you're lucky, you run across someone like Adam Campbell. In this interview he shares one key insight after another. "If you think about a city, almost every single thing that you see is artificial. It's created in the minds of men and women and is a projection of our own ideas. And there is a great paucity of imagination there. Everything is in straight lines. Everything has "organization" to it. I'm not saying that we're not natural. I'm just saying we've created a world that has given us a false sense of understanding of how patterns operate in the world. So the world that we create, recreates us. And it's a very strange existence we live in now, and we don't realize it's strange. We adapt to it. It lives and breathes us." Meet a contemporary Thoreau. { read more } Be The Change Pick just one idea from this interview and think about how it might open a door of some kind in your life. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Man & Dog: A Picture that Moved the World 10 Worst Listening Habits -- and Their Cure No Greater Joy: Photos from Around the World 5 Powerful Tools for Reflection The Untapped Power of Smiling A Guide to Finding Your Passion How to Change When Change Is Hard Can Positive Thoughts Help Heal Another? DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 124,995 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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The Legacy of Baghcheban

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February 1, 2013 a project of ServiceSpace Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within. - Franz Kafka - The Legacy of Baghcheban "One day three deaf boys were brought to the school. No one in all of Iran in all of its history had ever thought of educating a deaf person. Everyone believed the deaf to be uneducable; they were treated as imbeciles. But Baghcheban could not ignore these three children. He tried to make them laugh, to reach them, to connect. He went to sleep that night haunted by the confusion and loneliness he had seen in their eyes. He worked and worked at communication, first using mime and inventing hand signals, then he developed a visual hand alphabet. Baghcheban saw these boys through the eyes of a poet, and the poet had to give language to these isolated children. He did not see their deafness; he saw their need, a human hunger for self expression -- for poetry." A touching story of Iran's sign language pioneer -- and the continued ripples of his life. { read more } Be The Change "Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light." (Norman B. Rice) COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News A 39-year-long Lesson in Forgiveness No Greater Joy: Photos from Around the World The Untapped Power of Smiling Can Positive Thoughts Help Heal Another? The 'Before I Die' Project 15 Serious Games Aiming to Change the World 29 Lessons From Travelling the World Secret Santas Take the Country by Surprise DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 124,960 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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A 7 Year, 30 Million Steps Reporting Assignment

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January 31, 2013 a project of ServiceSpace Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. - Matsuo Basho - A 7 Year, 30 Million Steps Reporting Assignment Call it "the longest walk". In what is probably the longest, most arduous piece of reportage ever undertaken, Paul Salopek, an experienced writer for National Geographic, is embarking on the astonishing task of retracing the journey taken by early man tens of thousands of years ago. Beginning in the exotic surroundings of the Great Rift Valley in Ethiopia, Salopek will take an estimated 30 million steps, reaching his destination seven years later, three continents away at the most southerly point of South America. Along the way he will be writing stories for National Geographic at the rate of one long article a year, while maintaining a website that will be filled with regular multimedia updates from his 21,000-mile journey. { read more } Be The Change Reflect on the journeys you've taken in the past. What are the main insights you've gleaned from them? COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Nursery Rhymes Bring Down the House 6 Ways to Keep Your New Years Resolutions The Dash Between The Years 7 Must-Read Books on Education Where Children Sleep: A Poignant Photo Series 20 Questions for Thanksgiving The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing 8 Things That Are Better Than Free DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 124,953 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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Flipped Learning

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January 30, 2013 a project of ServiceSpace It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted. - Linda Conway - Flipped Learning In "flipped learning," students watch podcasts of their teacher's lectures on their own time and spend their time in the classroom applying what they've learned at home. This allows students to learn at their own pace by watching the lecture as many times as they need. Schools that have applied this method of teaching in all their classrooms have seen their failure rates drop dramatically. { read more } Be The Change Learn more about "flipped learning" and a response to five common criticisms. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Three Parables to Regain Perspective Simple Philosophy of the World's Oldest Man The Secret Powers of Time 7 Must-Read Books on Education The Language of Love Where Children Sleep: A Poignant Photo Series Are You Training Yourself To Fail? Coelho's 1 Min Manual For Climbing Mountains DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 124,872 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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