A Eulogy For My Mother

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January 3, 2012 a project of CharityFocus We're all just walking each other home. - Ram Dass - A Eulogy For My Mother "For the first 58 years of my life, I would have to say that my relationship to my mother was a complex and difficult one. She was a huge personality, full of great passions, creativity, rages, and generosity. I remember saying to friends that I loved my mother in small doses, but that she didn't come in small doses. She was a force of nature." Celebrated filmmaker Mickey Lemle has shared the stories of some of the most evolved figures of our time. Here, in this candid and moving eulogy, he pays tribute to the extraordinary spirit of his mother Edna, and details the difficult but transformative journey he undertook -- to serve the person who brought him into this world, as she transitioned out of it. { read more } Be The Change Make a special effort today to connect with your parents, children, or other loved ones you don't always stay in touch with. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Journey of a Kindness Checkbook A 15-Year-Old's Bucket List Goes Viral Inspirational Graduation Speech by Autistic Student Today You, Tomorrow Me Pilot Holds Plane for a Dying Child A Missed Flight & A Connection Found But Will It Make You Happy? The Burrito Man Who Changed Lives DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 111,313 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 Sniper and the Trumpet Song

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January 2, 2012 a project of CharityFocus What has for centuries raised humanity above the beast is not the cudgel but an inward music; the irresistible power of unarmed truth, the powerful attraction of its example. - Boris Pasternak - The Sniper and the Trumpet Song Two weeks after D-Day, Col. Jack Leroy Tueller's made a decision to play his trumpet. The last remaining German sniper threatening his unit was so moved that he couldn't shoot, and surrendered the next morning. By choosing to play "his love song" Jack had sensed the fear and loneliness in that sniper, and had recognized that he too had that within himself. Now 90 years old, in this two minute video, Jack shares his priceless story with us. { read more } Be The Change In your next moment of conflict, whether large or small, turn to your own native expression of beauty. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The Impossible Floating Village Football Team Inspirational Graduation Speech by Autistic Student 25 Visionaries Changing Your World The Bus Ride That Changed My Life Homeless Kid Wows Korea The Burrito Man Who Changed Lives But Will It Make You Happy? Leap of Faith DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 111,312 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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Top 10 Kindness Stories of 2011

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January 1, 2012 a project of CharityFocus The more we develop the habit of noticing goodness, the more our own sense of wellbeing rises. - Brahma Kumaris - Top 10 Kindness Stories of 2011 What we appreciate, appreciates. That's the way activist Lynne Twist explains a universal phenomenon: that the more we concentrate on something, the more we understand and learn, the more it expands our own boundaries. It also applies to the stories we surround ourselves with. In theory, stories of kindness are happening all the time, but the more we orient ourselves to them, the more we find all around us. For inspiration, here are 10 real-life stories from this past year -- remarkable stories by ordinary people, relating poignant acts of kindness in everyday life. { read more } Be The Change Tune into acts of kindness around you -- as well as opportunities to put your own in action. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The 3 A's of Awesome Life is 'Baeutiful' 5 Powerful Tools for Reflection A Professor's Lesson 30 Years Ago The Untapped Power of Smiling Mall Shoppers Get a Surprise Kindness Goes Around, and Comes Around Rappin' to Be the Change DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 111,278 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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A New Kind of New Year's Resolution

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December 31, 2011 a project of CharityFocus Each resolve to live more kindly loosens restrictive knots of self-interest. Life then flows more freely on its true course. The way an unfettered river runs swift to the ocean. - Daily Good Editors - A New Kind of New Year's Resolution The upcoming new year serves as a reminder of hope, possibilities, and new beginnings. As we prepare to step into 2012, here's a new tool to help turn our annual motivation outward, resolving to brighten the lives of others: Resolution12.org. Its organizer, a chaplain at the University of Pennsylvania named Rev. Chaz Howard, calls it "a public campaign to challenge people to make outwardly-focused resolutions to care for others, instead of inwardly-focused resolutions for self-improvement." This simple initiative connects a community of people who want to volunteer, help a loved one, recycle, and do dozens of other things to be kind to others. The endless possibilities are recorded online in people's own words, creating a shared space for declarations that translate into service and inspire others. { read more } Be The Change Rev. Howard's advice: to reflect and then "make a resolution that is not too big -- and doable. What is the little imprint you can make on the world?" For inspiration and to share, visit Resolution12 here. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The 3 A's of Awesome Life is 'Baeutiful' A Professor's Lesson 30 Years Ago How Do You Want to be Remembered? 29 Lessons From Travelling the World Kindness Goes Around, and Comes Around Rappin' to Be the Change Remembering Kindness 41 Years Later DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 111,272 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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