Sangha of Auspicious Companions

December 16, 2019

a project of ServiceSpace

Do You Remember Your Song

“When a woman in a certain African tribe knows she is pregnant, she goes out into the wilderness with a few friends and together they pray and meditate until they hear the song of the child. They recognize that every soul has its own vibration that expresses its unique flavor and purpose. Then the women attune to the song, they sing it out loud.” { read more }

Be The Change

Is there someone in your own life who reminds you of your song when you lose touch with it? Express your gratitude to them today.

DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers “good news” to 244,964 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here.

Other ServiceSpace projects include:

KindSpring // KarmaTube // Conversations // Awakin // More

December 15, 2019

a project of ServiceSpace

This Is Your Brain On Music

“Musical training doesn’t just improve your ear for music — it also helps your ear for speech. That’s the takeaway from an unusual new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience. Researchers found that kids who took music lessons for two years didn’t just get better at playing the trombone or violin; they found that playing music also helped kids’ brains process language.” { read more }

Be The Change

For more inspiration read this wonderful interview with writer and music teacher Gail Needleman: Music Is Something You Do. { more }

DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers “good news” to 244,967 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here.

Other ServiceSpace projects include:

KindSpring // KarmaTube // Conversations // Awakin // More

December 14, 2019

a project of ServiceSpace

On Courage

What does it mean to be courageous? Is it something seen outwardly, as when someone overcomes an overwhelming physical obstacle, or is it “the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future”? This short video provides an eloquent answer through powerful images that encourage further consideration of the question. { read more }

Be The Change

eep a “courage journal,” writing about moments when you sense the deep speakings of your heart affecting your participation in life.

DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers “good news” to 244,961 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here.

Other ServiceSpace projects include:

KindSpring // KarmaTube // Conversations // Awakin // More

December 13, 2019

a project of ServiceSpace

How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them

Our biases can be dangerous, even deadly as we’ve seen in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, in Staten Island, New York. Diversity advocate Vern Myers looks closely at some of the subconscious attitudes we hold toward out-groups. She makes a plea to all people: Acknowledge your biases. Then move toward, not away from, the groups that make you uncomfortable. In a funny, impassioned, important talk, she shows us how. { read more }

Be The Change

What might walking boldly towards your own biases look like?

DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers “good news” to 244,956 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here.

Other ServiceSpace projects include:

KindSpring // KarmaTube // Conversations // Awakin // More

On Courage

DailyGood // Conversations // iJourney // HelpOthers

MovedByLove // CF Sites // Karma Kitchen // More

Thank you for helping us spread the good. This newsletter now reaches 69,100 subscribers.

December 12, 2019

a project of ServiceSpace

The Lost Words

“It had come to our attention that words were slipping out from the mouths and the minds of children, but it was only once the book was complete and beginning to make its way out into the world that this really hit home. In a class full of children I asked who knew what a wren was. Wren, that small brown bird, feathers small as splinters with a sharp song so loud that threads its way through hedges in parks and gardens. Not one. Not even the teacher. An absence of knowledge.” Award-winning writer and illustrator Jackie Morris shares more. { read more }

Be The Change

For more inspiration, browse through Robert Beard’s list of the 100 most beautiful words in the English language. { more }

DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers “good news” to 244,957 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here.

Other ServiceSpace projects include:

KindSpring // KarmaTube // Conversations // Awakin // More

December 11, 2019

a project of ServiceSpace

How an Army of Women Resurrected a River

Women in Vellore, India, have resurrected the Naganadhi river and the agriculture of the area that were almost lost to drought. In 2014, the women took matters into their own hands and worked with engineers and hydrologists to build 600 recharge wells by hand: digging wells, making cement rings, placing the rings and stones, and planting drought-resistant saplings along the river basin. This labor-intensive work has resulted in wells that help replenish the groundwater. They have not only brought a dead river back to life, but have ensured their children do not endure the hardship they did. { read more }

Be The Change

Become part of the growing movement to protect rivers and defend the rights of communities that depend on them. { more }

DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers “good news” to 244,938 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here.

Other ServiceSpace projects include:

KindSpring // KarmaTube // Conversations // Awakin // More

Having trouble reading this? View it in your browser. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe.