by Susan | Mar 23, 2019 | inspiration, News Stories, Uncategorized
Ever since we started making and selling compassion beads we’ve packaged them in little zip-top plastic bags. It made sense: they’re affordable (about 2.5¢ apiece), lightweight, see-through . . . .but they are plastic. Most plastic ends up in the landfill....
by Susan | Dec 8, 2018 | birthdays, inspiration, Uncategorized
December 8, 1939 Mary Catherine Bateson “Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.” December 8, 1960 Bill McKibben “Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have...
by Susan | Jul 4, 2018 | Uncategorized, Week of Compassion
New Orleans Saints linebacker Demario Davis and Redskins cornerback Josh Norman were at the San Antonio bus terminal last week handing out care packages to the immigrant families there. “If you see wrong, you stand up and do something about it,” Davis...
by Susan | Mar 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
In 2008, Karen Armstrong won a prestigious TED Prize, and made her wish: a Charter for Compassion with the Golden Rule at it’s center. Watch her talk: A year later the Charter for Compassion was written. On the day of its release there were Charter signings all...
by Susan | Oct 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
“Father,” said a little Frog, “I have seen such a terrible monster! It was as big as a mountain, with horns on its head, and a long tail, and it had hoofs divided in two.” “Tush, child,” said the old Frog, “that was only Farmer White’s Ox. It isn’t so big either; he...
by Susan | Apr 11, 2017 | inspiration, poem, Uncategorized
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all...
