Green Bridge Growers: Finding Hope in the Ground

You're receiving this email because you are a DailyGood subscriber. Trouble Viewing? On a mobile? Just click here. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe.

March 11, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace There is no sincerer love than the love of food. - George Bernard Shaw - Green Bridge Growers: Finding Hope in the Ground "Food is so much a part of the fabric of our lives, reflecting our health, lifestyle, time, and values." But with so much of the food in our markets and on our plates coming from afar, what does our food have to say about us? How can our food be a reflection of our values, and perhaps play a role in helping address other problems found in our society? Green Bridge Growers aims to answer this question, putting communities back in touch with their food, and helping to create jobs for people with autism, who currently face unemployment numbers as high as 90%. { read more } Be The Change Take a moment before your first bite today to express gratitude for your food, and to ask the question "where did this food come from?" You may be surprised by the answer! COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Ten Things You Might Not Know About Love How to Change When Change Is Hard The One Thing They Carried With Them Can Positive Thoughts Help Heal Another? The Difference Between Listening & Hearing Building A Regret Free Life Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World On Navigating Stuckness DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 143,053 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

Read more...

The 3-Year-Old Who Decided To Donate Her Hair

You're receiving this email because you are a DailyGood subscriber. Trouble Viewing? On a mobile? Just click here. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe.

March 10, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. - Maya Angelou - The 3-Year-Old Who Decided To Donate Her Hair Emily James is a typical three-year-old princess. She loves nail polish, frilly dresses, and her Rapunzel doll, Dolly. When her hair got too long for a busy little girl, her parents suggested that she cut her hair off and donate it for wigs for cancer patients. Emily was excited to "share her hair"... on the condition that Uncle "Maffew" cut Dolly's hair too. "I don't want any kids to be sad that they have no hair," she says endearingly, "just cut some off and give it to a kid." This short video captures an adorable little girl's generous spirit. { read more } Be The Change What do you have in abundance? Why not share with someone else who needs it more? COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News How to Change When Change Is Hard The One Thing They Carried With Them There's More to Life Than Being Happy Can Positive Thoughts Help Heal Another? 16 Habits of Exuberant Human Beings Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World Bill Gates vs. Mother Teresa Maya Angelou On Resilience and Children DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 143,033 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

Read more...

How To Increase Your Compassion Bandwidth

You're receiving this email because you are a DailyGood subscriber. Trouble Viewing? On a mobile? Just click here. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe.

March 9, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. - Albert Einstein - How To Increase Your Compassion Bandwidth Compassion moves us to care for the suffering of others and enables us to live cooperatively with each other. Yet, in this world of information overload and constant connection, we risk being overwhelmed by our emotional response to the suffering of others. Fearing exhaustion, we turn off our compassion. However, although many of us assume that we only have so much compassion to spare, the developing research on compassion says that we can cultivate and sustain our compassion to build our capacity to alleviate suffering. Read on to learn more. { read more } Be The Change Is there a service opportunity you have been avoiding because you fear it will weigh too heavily on your heart? You are not alone. Challenge yourself to dig deep into your core of love and consider engaging your whole heart in that service activity, being mindful of the positive effect your actions have and why that service is important to you. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News No Greater Joy: Photos from Around the World Ten Things You Might Not Know About Love The One Thing They Carried With Them The Beautiful Fragility of Language The College Course That's Changing Lives A Moving Letter from Fiona Apple Relationships Are More Important than Ambition 16 Habits of Exuberant Human Beings DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 143,006 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

Read more...

On Navigating Stuckness

You're receiving this email because you are a DailyGood subscriber. Trouble Viewing? On a mobile? Just click here. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe.

March 8, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. - Heraclitus of Ephesus - On Navigating Stuckness Jonathan Harris spent much of his life creating small, beautiful things. Going from one project to the next wasn't always so lucid, and in this article, he recounts moments where it felt like he lost his flow -- and what he did about it. "We have these brief lives, and our only real choice is how we will fill them. Your attention is precious. Don't squander it. Don't throw it away. Don't let companies and products steal it from you. Don't let advertisers trick you into lusting after things you don't need. Don't let the media convince you to covet the lives of celebrities. Own your attention -- it's all you really have." { read more } Be The Change Stuck? Shift your perspective on your situation as the emergence of new possibilities, and embrace the expansiveness of what lies ahead. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Man & Dog: A Picture that Moved the World The One Thing They Carried With Them A Moving Letter from Fiona Apple Building A Regret Free Life 16 Habits of Exuberant Human Beings 10 Life-Changing Perspectives On Anger Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World Bill Gates vs. Mother Teresa DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 142,982 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

Read more...