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February 18, 2021

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Barrio De Paz: Peace Town

“Everything in society tells us to distrust others. I think it’s the other way around. We need to profoundly trust in those around us, in their potential and in who they are,” the grandmotherly Nelsa Curbelo Cora says. In 1999, she walked into the violence infested city of Guayaquil, Ecuador to BE peace. Through her grassroots work, many of Guayaquil’s most dangerous gangs have disarmed, agreed to abandon violence–and now work together to rebuild their community! Watch this profile of Nelsa Curbelo Cora’s work. { read more }

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Take an attitude of profound trust in your interactions with everyone you meet today.For more inspiration, join this Saturday’s Awakin Call with Aqeela Sherrills; “Transforming Trauma in Urban War Zones.” RSVP details and more info here. { more }

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February 17, 2021

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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“Wintering is a season in the cold. It is a fallow period in life when you’re cut off from the world, feeing rejected, sidelined, blocked from progress, or cast into the role of an outsider. Perhaps it results from an illness or life event such as bereavement or the birth of a child; perhaps it comes from a humiliation or failure. Perhaps you’re in a period of transition and have temporarily fallen between two worlds.”Katherine May’s poignant and personal book, “Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times,” braids together insights from literature, mythology and the natural world. It makes a compelling case for the transformative power of slowing down and stepping back. Read an excerpt here. { read more }

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Learn more about the book and some of the personal struggles that May ‘wintered’ through in her own life, in this NPR interview. { more }

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February 16, 2021

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My Vision Quest

“I must begin by asking myself, ‘What do I want?’ What do I want, really — not because of my background and education, self-image and vanity, but what does this ‘I’ that I am actually want from this short life? Indeed. What, or who am I? And what for? That stops me. And I begin, in silence, to listen – to look up to what I can see and know about the great Universe…”Jim George was a celebrated Canadian diplomat, environmental activist, and author. Across the course of his prolific career, he held a series of challenging, adventurous posts around the world. First and foremost, however, he was a spiritual seeker, one who established meaningful connections with some of the most influential teachers of the last century. He was 101-years-old when he passed, and as one of his interviewers put it, George was, “a translucent diamond radiating the wisdom and experience of a well-lived life.” In this short and potent piece, written in his nineties, George shares the essence of his ‘vision quest.’ { read more }

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What is your vision quest? Do share it with DailyGood if inspired to do so. And for a deep-dive into more of James George’s worldview and insights, check out, “If Not Now, When.” { more }

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February 15, 2021

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Click Here for Unconditional Love

On Sue Cochrane’s website is a button that says “Click Here for Unconditional Love”- it leads to a selection of writings that offer exactly that. It isn’t just the words of Sue’s stories that touch the reader, but the wordless energy behind them. Sue Cochrane survived a traumatic childhood to become a pioneering family court judge. Throughout her career she strived to put the heart back into the body of the law. Her first stark cancer diagnosis came when her three adopted sons were little more than babies. In the eighteen years that followed, Sue lived and loved through a series of profoundly serious diagnoses, including Stage IV breast cancer, and a brain tumor that was deemed inoperable. In the midst of intense uncertainties and difficult treatment regimens, she never stopped learning, never stopped loving. Her courage and compassion touched thousands of lives. On February 13th of this year, Sue passed peacefully at home. In honor of her beloved life and legacy, we share one of her “Unconditional Love” posts here. { read more }

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Send a message to Sue’s family to express condolences, and share appreciation for Sue’s luminous life, here. { more }

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February 14, 2021

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Emily’s Affirmations: A Valentine’s Day Gift to Self

“The invitation from a friend was simple: take a picture each day of something that brings you joy. The intention was harder: bring a little light into a year of profound tumult, and isolation. In the summer of 2020, I like many was starting to feel the unraveling of time–my calendar no longer punctuated by social gatherings and grocery shopping, casual exchanges and well-worn routines. The unscheduled hours I’d previously longed for were being delivered in bundles and heaps, and had begun to feel alarming and disorienting.” In the midst of a turbulent time, writer Emily Barr took on a daily creative challenge that evolved unexpectedly into a deep calling. She shares some of that journey here, along with an exquisite Valentine’s Day gift. { read more }

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Take a leisurely wander through Emily’s soul-crafted offerings, and if you’re inspired to share an affirmation of your own with her, you can do so here. { more }

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February 13, 2021

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Painting A Protest #standwithfarmers

Since September of last year, hundreds of thousands of farmers across India have been protesting against the introduction of a series of agricultural laws. “Close to where Praveen Kumar is sitting with his crutches on a scooter, a brush in one hand, talking to people around him, is a large canvas — 18 feet in length — on which he has painted images from the farmers’ protest at Singhu. Praveen has travelled some 300 kilometres to Singhu from Ludhiana, where he is an art teacher and artist. He reached the protest site at the Haryana-Delhi border on January 10, compelled, he says, to make his contribution.” { read more }

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What is your own relationship to farming and farmers? What is one action you can regularly take to honor the growers of the food you eat? For more stories and perspectives from farmers in India, check out The People’s Archive of Rural India. { more }

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February 12, 2021

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The Energy of the Universe is Neutral: James O’ Dea on Restorati

“The central thesis of my book, ‘Creative Stress–A Path for Evolving Souls Living Through Personal and Planetary Upheaval’, is that the energy of the universe is neutral. It’s only in the last hundred years that the word “stress” has come to denote something negative. For the poet, stress is language, for the composer, stress is musical notes. So stress is a neutral concept. It’s the pressuring of energy in a particular direction. The energy of the universe comes at us, comes at us and we filter it. We create a meaning process around it. If our meaning process around it pushes it aside, we should say that the physics of energy start to apply. That energy does not go away. It needs to be transformed. So it shows up in your blood pressure, your heart.” Author James O’Dea, a former director of Amnesty International, shares more about his journey as a leading voice in the forgiveness, reconciliation and restorative justice movement and how his life seems to have been ordained by fate to take on a series of what some might call, ‘stressful’ roles. { read more }

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In which areas of your life have you felt the stress of being torn between “the way things are” and and “the way things could be”? How have you taken time and space to reflect, stand and operate skillfully within that chasm? For more inspiration, join this Saturday’s Awakin Call with Neil Gaught: Single Organizing Idea–Creating and Operationalizing Purposeful Businesses. More details and RSVP info here. { more }

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February 11, 2021

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Happy Men

“Let me set the scene: I walk up to five men skateboarding by the statue in Prospect Park, they are hanging with each other and I approach and I say, ‘Hey, I wrote a poem about you, for you, can I read it to you?'” Winter Miller is an award-winning writer. She has a Masters in playwriting from Columbia University, and has written over 70 articles for the New York Times. She shares what happened next (and her poem) here. { read more }

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Asks Miller in her piece, “Why not tell your muse they are your muse?” Why not tell yours today?

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