Somethings just make sense. If you teach a child to hate, a child will hate their entire life. If you give a child a chance, that child has a chance to create the life he or she wants. That just makes sense to me. When I heard about the school supplies for Iraqi children campaign,… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Kindness
Simply Kind Tuesdays : Week 42 : Pain in my feet
About a year ago, I started to get this terrible pain in my heels. Â It came on suddenly, almost out of no where. I had been running stairs every Sunday so I assumed the pain was due to the stair running. I stopped running stairs and assumed the pain would go away. It didn’t. Over… Continue Reading
Simply Kind Tuesdays : Week 41 : Small Daily Difference
“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.” William George Jordan Small daily kindness can change the world. Â What small daily acts of kindness do you inflict… Continue Reading
Simply Kind Tuesdays : Week 40 : Words.
Have you ever experienced the power of someone else’s words? I had this experience with a friend. I’d been thinking of writing a serial fiction set in Denver. I practiced with a short serial fiction on a friend’s blog. We were talking about the piece when he said something like, “I was trying to figure… Continue Reading
Simply Kind Tuesdays : Week 36 : The Princess and the Pea
You remember the story – Prince wants a real princess for a wife. His mother tests out the potential bride by putting a pea under twenty matresses. The potential bride felt the pea and was declared a true princess. Â Because truly, “nobody but a real princess could have such a delicate skin.” Nice story. What… Continue Reading
Simply Kind Tuesdays : Week 35 : Let it go
Last week, while walking with a client on the Cherry Creek Bike Path, a biker hit me with his hand. His hand out to the side, moving fast, his hand thumped my back. He hit me so hard that I fell forward a few steps. Â I said a loud, “OUCH!” The biker zoomed off to… Continue Reading
Success
Here’s two videos, by the Richard St. John, about Success. They were both taken at a Ted conference. I’ve posted this first video before. It’s a quirky little 3 minute piece on how to be successful. Created in 2005, it’s very inspirational. This year’s video, is a follow up. What happens after you reach success?… Continue Reading
Keep going when the going is hard….
“Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience.” Happy Monday!… Continue Reading
Simply Kind Tuesdays : Week 29 : Guest post by MJ Ryan
Claudia here: MJ Ryan is one of my personal heroes. She’s so many things to so many people. To me, she’s an excellent example of someone who, uncomfortably, uncertainly, yet magnificently follows her own path. If you havn’t enjoyed the luxury of reading one of her books, I’d strongly encourage you to pick one up. My… Continue Reading
Simply Kind Tuesdays : Week 28 : Lion or Mouse.
The Lion and the Mouse by Aesop ONCE when a Lion was asleep a little Mouse began running up and down upon him; this soon wakened the Lion, who placed his huge paw upon him, and opened his big jaws to swallow him. “Pardon, O King,” cried the little Mouse: “forgive me this time, I shall… Continue Reading