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. . . is a grassroots movement that promotes, supports and celebrates San Antonio’s commitment to be a world-class compassionate city: one where the civic government, the religious and volunteer organizations, the businesses, the community and its educational institutions come together to recognize the importance and value of compassion in the life of a city and by doing so create an ethos of compassion and a safety net for its most vulnerable citizens. #compassionateSA
THE CHARTER FOR COMPASSION
. . is an international initiative to restore compassionate action to the center of religious, moral and political life. Compassion is the principled determination to put ourselves in the shoes of the other, and lies at the heart of all religious and ethical systems.
Poem: “What is Broken Is What God Blesses,” by Jimmy Santiago Baca
The lover’s footprint in the sand the ten-year-old kid’s bare feet in the mud picking chili for rich growers, not those seeking cultural or ethnic roots, but those whose roots have been exposed, hacked, dug up and burned and in those roots do animals burrow for...
Happy Birthday To . . Julia & Hubert
May 27, 1819 Julia Ward Howe "Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build." May 27, 1911 Hubert Humphrey "Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism."
Poem: “The Seven of Pentacles,” by Marge Piercy
Under a sky the color of pea soup she is looking at her work growing away there actively, thickly like grapevines or pole beans as things grow in the real world, slowly enough. If you tend them properly, if you mulch, if you water, if you provide birds that eat...
Poem: When the world goes mad,” by John Roedel
when the world goes mad be wildly kind to everyone everyone everyone ~ you can’t control much but you control how you treat others in these breaking news heartbreaking times when nothing feels certain let your raw kindness be a certainty allow your compassion to...
Happy Birthday To . . . Ralph & Ted
May 25, 1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson "The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself." May 25, 1908 Theodore Roethke "Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley."...
Poem: “Never Again,” by Stevie Smith
Never again will I weep And wring my hands And beat my head against the wall Because Me nolentem fata trahunt* But When I have had enough I will arise And go unto my Father And I will say to Him: Father, I have had enough. *Because fate drags me, unwilling." Me...
Then. Now. Now Then?
Two Places. Two Poets. At the Intersection of Our Times.
October 3, 2021 | A Global and Virtual Conversation with
Naomi Shihab Nye & Pádraig Ó’Tuama
WATCH THE ARCCHIVED VIDEO HERE
Find out more about the 2020 Compassionate Institute and the more than 150 compassionate fellows who are on a year-long journey to bring more compassion to our schools.
Interfaith Calendar May, 2022
May 1: Beltane: Pagan and Wiccan
May 3: Eid al-Fitr – Islam
May 8: Birthday of Buddha – Buddhism
May 16: Vesak – Theravada Buddhism
May 24: Declaration of the Bab – Baha’i
May 26: Ascension Day – Christian
