Food for Your Soul: An Interview with Satish Kumar

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November 30, 2013 a project of ServiceSpace Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. - -Nelson Mandela- - Food for Your Soul: An Interview with Satish Kumar "Food brings people together and nourishes not just their body but their soul, their mind and their spirit... That is why it is so important what kind of food you are eating. If you eat food that is tasteless, sprayed with chemicals and wrapped in plastic then your soul and spirit will not be nourished. We should eat wholesome food for a wholesome life." These are the words of Satish Kumar, founder of the Small School in Hartland England, and someone who once walked 8,000 miles from India to America to deliver packets of peace tea to the leaders of the world's then four nuclear powers. Read on to hear more insights into the power of baking and breaking bread together. { read more } Be The Change Find a time this week and bake and break some bread! COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The Most Beautiful Street in the World The 13-Year Old Who Is Foresting the World Two Ducks & Their 7-Year-Old Hero Freed: Cat With Head Trapped in Jar for 6 Days A Dying Boy's Special Bond with a Rescue Dog Living with Just Enough Office Workers Raise 5 Day Old Kitten Rescue of Burned Puppy Comes Full Circle DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 135,221 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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A 15-Year-Old Homeless Artist Rocks the World

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November 29, 2013 a project of ServiceSpace The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly. - Israelmore Ayivor - A 15-Year-Old Homeless Artist Rocks the World Inocente is a talented, spirited, ambitious teenage artist. She is also homeless, living with her mother and younger brothers on the streets of San Diego. She knows that her life depends on her art -- in more ways than we can imagine. This trailer for an award-winning documentary captures the dreams, fears, and inspiring resiliency of this remarkable young woman. { read more } Be The Change Spend a moment to appreciate the secret, hidden challenges that those around you may have battled to become who they are. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 98-Year-Old Woman Earns Judo's Highest Honor Mystery Knitter's Olympic Masterpiece Wisdom From Alice, Age 108 The Poorest & Most Generous President in the World An Ordinary Magical Life My Daughter's Noble Sacrifice The 29-Year-Old Stockbroker Who Saved 699 Lives Guerilla Gardener Plants Joy in Potholes DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 135,132 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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What Is Gratitude?

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November 28, 2013 a project of ServiceSpace Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. - Melody Beattie - What Is Gratitude? "Robert Emmons, perhaps the world's leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which he describes in a Greater Good essay, "Why Gratitude is Good." { read more } Be The Change Plant seeds to cultivate your own grateful garden by writing a gratitude letter, or starting a gratitude journal. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News A 39-year-long Lesson in Forgiveness No Greater Joy: Photos from Around the World Ten Things You Might Not Know About Love The One Thing They Carried With Them Barbara Kingsolver On How to Be Hopeful Inside Tim Tebow's World of Kindness The College Course That's Changing Lives Relationships Are More Important than Ambition DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 135,010 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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Grateful: A Love Song to the World

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November 27, 2013 a project of ServiceSpace In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Grateful: A Love Song to the World Inspired by the 21-Day Gratitude Challenge, talented musicians Nimo Patel and Daniel Nahmod brought together dozens of people from around the world to create this beautiful, heart-opening melody -- a celebration of our spirit and all that is a blessing in life. For 21 Days, over 11,000 participants from 118 countries practiced exactly that, learning that 'gratefulness' is a habit cultivated consciously and a muscle built over time. This soul-stirring music video, created within a week by a team of volunteers, shines the light on all the small things that make up the beautiful fabric of our lives. { read more } Be The Change Share this video with family and friends today as a springboard to reflect collectively on all that each of you is grateful for. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The Power of Introverts Offbeat Graduation Speech Gets Standing Ovation How To Trick Your Brain for Happiness What the Internet Does to Your Brain The Joy of Quiet Manic Nation: Why We're Addicted to Stress 6 Habits of Highly Empathic People 7 Ways to Make Happiness Last DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 134,881 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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