by Susan | Dec 4, 2019 | Week of Compassion
As is their annual tradition, students from Holy Cross High School donated, delivered and sorted 3,000 cans for the Inner City Development food pantry before taking off for Thanksgiving vacation. We publish this compassionate news roundup every Wednesday afternoon. If...
by Susan | Dec 4, 2019 | inspiration, poem
Every soul that touches yours – Be it the slightest contact – Get there from some good; Some little grace; one kindly thought; One aspiration yet unfelt; One bit of courage For the darkening sky; One gleam of faith To brave the thickening ills of life; One...
by Susan | Nov 30, 2019 | birthdays, inspiration
November 30, 1936 Abbie Hoffman “You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.” November 30, 1947 David Mamet “Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the...
by Susan | Nov 29, 2019 | interfaith calendar
December 1-24: Advent – Christian December 6: Saint Nicholas Day – Christian December 8: Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) – Buddhism December 8: Immaculate Conception of Mary – Catholic Christian December 12: Feast day – Our Lady of Guadalupe –...
by Susan | Nov 28, 2019 | folktales, inspiration
This story is passed down in both Hebrew & Arab versions. In the Hebrew version, King Solomon is believed to have built the first temple on the ground where the two brothers met and embraced. In the Arab version, at the end of the story: “In the morning,...
by Susan | Nov 27, 2019 | Week of Compassion
The Mayor was spotted handing out meals at the 10th annual Jaime Martinez Thanksgiving in the Barrio on Monday. We publish this compassionate news roundup every Wednesday afternoon. If you want to get the news sooner, follow us on Twitter @compassionNET1. And...
by Susan | Nov 24, 2019 | birthdays, inspiration
November, 24 1888 Dale Carnagie “If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.” November 24, 1946 Bruce Bueno de Mesquita “There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not...
by Susan | Nov 22, 2019 | inspiration, poem
The late US Representative Elijah Cummings recited this 54-word poem by Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, a pioneering civil rights leader who was the president of Morehouse College during Martin Luther King Jr. education there, during his first congressional speech. King cited...
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