A Simple Act of Kindness

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December 17, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace History has shown us time and time again that you don't have to know someone to love them with all your heart. - Shannon L. Alder - A Simple Act of Kindness As children, we're taught to be wary of strangers. To walk away, even when we know someone might need our help. Sadly, the world today seems to elicit this type of fear. And, as parents, we continuously struggle to help our children find the balance between staying safe and helping others. Read this inspiring story to learn how one mother's day of errands quickly became a teaching moment for her and her sons. { read more } Be The Change This world can be changed through direct acts of kindness. Take a moment today to reach out to someone in need. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The Science of Love On Navigating Stuckness Relationships Are More Important than Ambition 16 Habits of Exuberant Human Beings 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World Ladder to the Pleiades Ten Things Creative People Know DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 151,540 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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Poems To Color In: Beloved Poems Turned Interactive Art

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December 16, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace All my feelings have the color you desire to paint. - Rumi - Poems To Color In: Beloved Poems Turned Interactive Art Gifted artist and filmmaker Ellie Cross shares her story of an unusual "Stone Soup" gathering in Mumbai that she attended, and of the inspiration that led her to create charming, illustrated versions of poems by Rilke, Rumi, Mary Oliver and others. Titled "Poems To Color In", Ellie's series invites readers to print out and shade in the depicted verses. Her work gives people an opportunity to add a touch of the personal to these beloved poems. Read the backstory in Ellie's own words and see samples of her captivating work here. { read more } Be The Change Download your favorite of Ellie's illustrated poems and add your own color to the page :) COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 24 Acts of Kindness To Restore Faith In Humanity There's More to Life Than Being Happy A Moving Letter from Fiona Apple 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently What School Doesn't Teach You: How To Learn Power of Place: Photos From Around the World Resilience: The Opposite of Depression Ladder to the Pleiades DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 151,518 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 It Really Means To Live Our Mission

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December 15, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace Once you have glimpsed the world as it might be, as it ought to be, as it's going to be (however that vision appears to you), it is impossible to live compliant and complacent anymore in the world as it is. - Victoria Safford - What It Really Means To Live Our Mission "How are we so optimistic, so careful not to trip and yet do trip, and then get up and say OK?" Maira Kalman asked in pondering happiness and existence. What is it that propels us to get up after loss, after heartbreak, after failure? That's precisely what the Reverend Victoria Safford explores in her essay "The Small Work in the Great Work." { read more } Be The Change Find a way to rise up from difficulties that lay you low this week and help someone else rise up as well... COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 24 Acts of Kindness To Restore Faith In Humanity Ten Things You Might Not Know About Love On Navigating Stuckness 10 Creative Rituals To Learn From A Moving Letter from Fiona Apple Resilience: The Opposite of Depression 7 Ways To Change Negative Beliefs About Yourself Ten Things Creative People Know DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 151,519 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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An Open Letter To The Children Of The World

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December 14, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. - Maria Montessori - An Open Letter To The Children Of The World If you wrote an open letter to the children of the world, would you apologize to them? Following the tragic Newtown shooting that took the lives of 20 children exactly two years ago today, Randall Amster wrote such a letter. In it he addresses not just children but adults, as well: "This is not an excuse for our actions. We've let ourselves get caught up in the pace of our lives, and we've become distracted from the important issues that we all need to work on together." Read his moving epistle here. { read more } Be The Change Ask a child what is beautiful to them. Tell them what is beautiful to you, too. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The College Course That's Changing Lives The Difference Between Listening & Hearing The Science of Love On Navigating Stuckness A Moving Letter from Fiona Apple 16 Habits of Exuberant Human Beings 6 Habits of Highly Grateful People Power of Place: Photos From Around the World DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 151,526 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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