Everyday Kindness

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India has decided to cancel the debt of small farmers.
This act of kindness will cost means that farmers with less than 2 hectares will no longer work just to pay their debt.  Further, the Indian government pledged to put money into infrastructure, increased funding to education and healthcare.
The goal?
India would like to become self sufficient [...]

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Oh, don’t worry, one small act of kindness a day.  THAT is still happening.  I
I’m not certain what to do with this blog.  I’ve bored myself to death with my own tales of kindness, so I can imagine I’ve bored you as well.
I’m thinking of making the blog a resource for kindness.  Here’s my idea, [...]

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I thought this was such a great story that it deserved a run over here at Everyday Kindness.

Marine Maj. Brian Dennis, 36 years old, made friends with an abused, traumatized dog he called “Nubs”. More than once, he saved the dog’s life. And now, Nubs is coming to live in San Diego with [...]

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Have you ever had the experience where you are trying to be kind to everyone, then someone gets on your last nerve?
ARG!
There, in the middle of my Kind Claudia day, I’m trying to run over someone in the cross walk or thinking evil things about the person in front of me in line.
It’s almost as [...]

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In celebration of random acts of kindness week, I thought I would start a few memes.   Hopefully this will help us focus on being kind.  Plus, I get to learn a bit more about people!  Yeah!

Kind Fives
1.  List five kind things you for yourself.  List five kind things you for your closest friend, partner [...]

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Click image twice to see larger picture.  This came in my email from Emma Hand at ActsofKindness.com.  Check it out!

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Daniel Goleman discusses why we aren’t more compassionate in this talk at the Ted conference. He shares recent brain research as well as psychological research into compassion. The talk is 13:13 minutes long and well worth it.
I realize the topic does not sound inspiring. I thought about this talk quite a bit [...]

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I recently received a Blog Blessing from Story Teller at Sacred Ruminations and Small Reflections.
She received this award from A Room of Mama’s Own. She, in turn, gave the award to:

Rachael (otherwise known as Magpie Girl) encourages Small is Beautiful and Passionate Blogging.
Carla (at zena musings and Women at Rest) inspires and challenges bloggers [...]

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We end the month of January with twenty-five bloggers doing small acts of kindness every day.
Twenty-five!
Every week, our worldwide neighborhood does more than 175 acts of kindness.
We have two bloggers in the UK - one in Scotland and the other in Cheshire (which borders the Irish Sea and Wales - I looked it up!). We [...]

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