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Inspiration - December 2009Ring out the old
Ring in the new
Ding-dong, ding-dong
Ding-dong, ding-dong
Ding-dong, ding-dong
Ding-dong, ding-dong
Yesterday, today was tomorrow
And tomorrow, today will be yesterday
So ring out the old
Ring in the new
Ring out the old
Ring in the new
Ring out the false
Ring in the true
Ring out the old
Ring in the new
Ding-dong, ding-dong
Ding-dong, ding-dong
Ding-dong, ding-dong
Ding-dong, ding-dong
December 28, 2009
December 24, 2009
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Christmas Gift Suggestions
- By Oren Arnold
Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.
December 21, 2009
Reading Sunday morning newspaper with a freshly brewed coffee is one of the most pleasant, relaxing rituals of my life. And the travel section is easily my favorite....escaping to far-away exotic and fascinating places of the world. Then I came across this article that brought three great interests of mine together: books, traveling, and personal transformation. Four books mentioned in it deal with the author's life-changing experiences that inspired him to establish philanthropic work for the people he encountered in the journey. Here is one of those inspiring stories:
Three Cups of Tea
-Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
The meteoric success in the category is "Three Cups of Tea," by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, which, despite being of average literary merit, has spent more than 145 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. The book describes how in 1993 Mortenson, an emergency room nurse, became lost while climbing Pakistan's K2 and wandered, half-dead, into a village. Despite their poverty, the villagers fed and nursed him.
One day, Mortenson observed schoolchildren sitting under a tree scratching sums in the dirt. Mortenson returned to the U.S. determined to raise money, build a school and hire a teacher. Now called the Central Asia Institute, Mortenson's single school blossomed into a movement that has built more than 130 schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan, grants scholarships to girls and addresses public health problems.
Few people knew any of that until "Three Cups of Tea" turned Mortenson into a rock star of the nonprofit world. The title garnered book club fans, magazine articles and appearances on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," raising millions of dollars and subsequently building more schools.
source: L. A. Times
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Are we feeling the exuberance of this holiday season yet?! We'll let him lead the way.
December 14, 2009
Young kids can make us adults cry with utter frustration or hilarity. The following performance by a boy playing an ukulele singing "I am Yours" completely unintelligibly did the latter for me. It feels good to laugh till you cry...thanks to little kids in the world.
December 10, 2009
Just because it's so darn adorable..... Awww...
December 07, 2009
The Invitation
By Oriah Mountain Dreamer
It doesn't interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for,
And if you dare to dream of meeting
Your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
For love, for your dream,
For the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon.
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow,
If you have been opened by life's betrayals,
Or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain,
Mine or your own,
Without moving
To hide it or fade it or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy,
Mine or your own,
If you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
Without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic,
or to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true.
I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself,
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.
I want to know if you can be faithless and therefore be trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty
Even when it is not pretty every day,
And if you can source your life
From its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure,
Yours and mine,
And still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon,
"Yes!"
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair,
Weary and bruised to the bone,
And do what needs to be done for the children.
It doesn't interest me who you are, how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
In the center of the fire with me
And not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
From the inside
When all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone
With yourself,
And if you truly like the company you keep
In the empty moments.
December 03, 2009
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. -Thich Nhat Hahn
Just wanted to share with you this beautiful quote and hope it makes you smile. And I am sure your smile will brighten this day for you and others around you.
