“Meditation isn’t about attaining altered states of mind. It’s about being a better person in normal states of mind when you’re not meditating.” – Ted Meissner … [Read more...]
World Kindness Day: a day dedicated to kindnesses, big and small.
World Kindness Day — observed annually on Nov. 13 — is exactly what it sounds like: The holiday is the project of The World Kindness Movement, and can trace its start to the birth of the WKM in Tokyo, in 1997. The day is observed in several countries around the world, according to Wikipedia, including Australia, Italy, Singapore, Canada, Japan and the United Arab Emirates. This year's World Kindness Day falls not even a week after Typhoon … [Read more...]
Floating Bamboo House
Integrating disaster resistance along with local building traditions, Vietnamese H&P Architects' have designed an affordable bamboo house that floats when it floods. A real-life prototype of the modular design has since been constructed, using locally abundant materials like bamboo and coconut leaf, along with more engineered stuff like fiberboard. Intended to withstand floods of up to 1.5 meters (4.9 feet), the 3.3 by 6.6 meter (10.8 by … [Read more...]
Wise Words For Friday…
Words From the Poet Laureate: Hi Again and Birthday Poem
Today we have two illuminating poems, "Hi Again" and "Birthday Poem," from David Tucker, the Poet Laureate of the Quantum Revolution. A Vermont-based poet, David is an insightful commentator on our internal and external cultural, spiritual and political milieu.
Hi Again
When, naked and empty, I am delivered from busy streets into the quiet city of death, I will cry, I will be frightened a … [Read more...]Singapore Kindness Movement
Each week, Elisa Ng trawls the streets of Singapore picking up rubbish discarded by her fellow citizens. She is not searching for treasure hidden in the litter. Her only goal is to leave the city a little cleaner than before. "I want to encourage other people to pick up a piece of litter every day," she says. Recently, she chased an errant lorry driver who had thrown a plastic bag from his window. "He looked quite apprehensive and … [Read more...]
A Random Act of Kindness to Brighten Your Day!
Homeopathic Treatments Cures Stammer
Psychotherapists, medication and speech therapy all failed to cure a patient of a difficult stammer in Beirut. That was until he opted for homeopathic treatment with Yvonne Siblini, during which it uncovered a traumatic incident from his childhood. He was actually affected by the war. “When he was 8 he had seen dead bodies and things like that. This is what I do – I go through the whole history of his life." “He didn’t know when it started, so I … [Read more...]
Friday’s Food For Thought…
Make a Difference This Halloween
Every year when Halloween rolls around do you find yourself torn in two. On the one hand there are many aspects of Halloween that are really fun. Who wouldn’t enjoy a celebration where you get to dress up and get candy? On the other hand do you feel increasingly uncomfortable about how greed driven the event seems to be. So is there a way to keep the fun and turn Halloween around? As a family why not have fun making Halloween treats to … [Read more...]
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