Look With Your Heart: Lessons From My Grandmother

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July 29, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand. - Robert Valett - Look With Your Heart: Lessons From My Grandmother Mia Tagano visits her 94 year old grandmother -- who now has dementia -- and discovers a whole new, less verbal, way of communicating her love through heart, hands and hugs. To her surprise, when she brings this approach to her grandmother's roommate who has suffered a stroke, it radically transforms their communication and opens up both women profoundly. This heart-warming story shares more... { read more } Be The Change This week, discover how nonverbal communication can warm up your relationship with others. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News No Greater Joy: Photos from Around the World How to Change When Change Is Hard 15 Serious Games Aiming to Change the World The College Course That's Changing Lives The Difference Between Listening & Hearing On Navigating Stuckness A Moving Letter from Fiona Apple 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 148,189 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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The Lost Voice of A Generation

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July 28, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace The opposite of loneliness is not togetherness, it's intimacy. - Richard Bach - The Lost Voice of A Generation None of us can know the span of our life. Some of us will live a long life and die in old age; others leave much sooner. No, the meaning of life is not how long we live, it's about the fact that we lived at all, and that we touch the lives of others by living. Poet Marina Keegan may have died young, and tragically, but she had found her voice, and expressed it through poetry that touched the lives of so many. She is not the "lost voice" of a generation; she is one voice among many who have come before and will come after, reminding us that our time here is limited and carries within it so much power and beauty. { read more } Be The Change Think of someone you love today. Write down two lessons you can learn from their life. Then, if you can, share it with them. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News No Greater Joy: Photos from Around the World 24 Acts of Kindness To Restore Faith In Humanity How to Change When Change Is Hard Barbara Kingsolver On How to Be Hopeful The College Course That's Changing Lives The Science of Love The Difference Between Listening & Hearing 6 Habits of Highly Grateful People DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 148,175 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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Calling Out The Delusions Of A Techno-Industrial Society

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July 27, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become." - The Buddha - Calling Out The Delusions Of A Techno-Industrial Society Stories about the human colonization of other worlds were popular in the 1950s, with a promise of material abundance, and much of the population of the Western world excited about the possibilities offered by new technologies and a beneficial, authoritative science. That humans could extend their reach to other worlds seemed inevitable progress. Today, the popular faith in science and technology has drained away, to be replaced by a widespread, if often unspoken, fear. We have opened the box and seen where our ambition leads, and though we might quickly close it again and look away, it is too late in the day for any kind of innocence. This thoughtful essay urges us to move past the delusions of our society. { read more } Be The Change If we are a global village, everything you do affects others. This week notice how your dreams and actions affect other people. You can bring light if you choose to. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News No Greater Joy: Photos from Around the World There's More to Life Than Being Happy Barbara Kingsolver On How to Be Hopeful The Beautiful Fragility of Language On Navigating Stuckness 16 Habits of Exuberant Human Beings 10 Life-Changing Perspectives On Anger 6 Habits of Highly Grateful People DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 148,156 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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Letters To A Young Artist

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July 26, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace Character -- the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life -- is the source from which self-respect springs. - Joan Didion - Letters To A Young Artist As artists and change makers, how can character be cultivated in such a way as to foster that prized form of personal dignity, along with its sibling qualities of confidence and self-esteem? Maria Popova gives us a quick overview of Letters to a Young Artist, a book by celebrated artist, actor, playwright, and educator Anna Deavere Smith, which aims to answer these questions and more. { read more } Be The Change Write a letter to yourself as an artist. What do you genuinely hope to create in the world, and what, if anything, keeps you from doing so? COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Man & Dog: A Picture that Moved the World No Greater Joy: Photos from Around the World The One Thing They Carried With Them The College Course That's Changing Lives The Science of Love Building A Regret Free Life 6 Habits of Highly Grateful People What School Doesn't Teach You: How To Learn DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 148,148 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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