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Kindness Weekly: A Season of Thanksgiving

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November 27, 2016

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space EditorEditor’s note: We hope that you are having a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. It is easy to reflect on what we are grateful for this time of the year. We also hope to take that feeling into the rest of the year. The New York Times asked their readers, what they’re Grateful for this Thanksgiving. Here are some of their responses. –Ameeta space
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Small Acts of Kindness

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space mindyjourney wrote: “We made a basket of gratitude prompts ready to give around the Thanksgiving table. Visualizing a more open dialogue about what we are thankful for and for encouraging a more positive focus. “
space KiwiCat wrote: “I left a few nice things in the Free Library box at the end of the street. When I walked past later they were gone. “
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Featured Kindness Stories

Story1 When he saw her at the mall, a former student’s offer to help touched her heart.
Story2 She noticed that the librarian’s distraction was due to a grieving heart.
Story3 Her act of kindness inspired the restaurant staff to return her favor.
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Food Waste and the Culture of Rush

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November 27, 2016

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Food Waste and the Culture of Rush

Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going to fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

– Eddie Cantor –

Food Waste and the Culture of Rush

Journalist Diana Moreno took a job at a low-cost supermarket in Germany where she discovered what she called a nasty reality: “Every day, at a sleepy four o’clock in the morning, a random employee has to do the ‘waste inventory’…we get rid of items just because they’ve lost their label, or because the package is broken, or because they’ve been left outside the fridge.” This food waste adds up to about 1.3 billion tons a year, or about 1/3 of all food that is produced. Moreno believes the heart of this problem is a culture of “rushing, speed, and busyness.” She highlights the growing number of grocery stores and citizen movements that are working to fight against this waste, and how each of us can contribute to wasting less. { read more }

Be The Change

The next time you sit down to a meal, try to eat mindfully (without any distractions) and notice how you feel full more quickly. Maybe next time you can order or pack less food!

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