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| Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. –Sally Koch
Good News of the Day:
 Every day for the past three years, 82-year-old Jean Wilson has ordered a large pepperoni pizza and two diet cokes from the local pizza shop. One day, she took a particularly hard fall in her house that left her unable to get up. After her regular order failed to surface for three days, delivery driver Susan Guy took it upon herself to check on her, an act that saved Wilson’s life! [ more ]
Submitted by: Varsha
Be The Change:
Check up on someone you haven’t heard from in awhile. You might just save a life!
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| Feb 27, 2011 |
| “There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.” |
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| To touch can be to give life. –Michelangelo
Good News of the Day:
 A pat on the back, a caress of the arm–these are everyday, incidental gestures that we usually take for granted. But after years spent immersed in the science of touch, University of California, Berkeley, psychology professor Dacher Keltner has found that the power of touch is much more profound than we usually realize. In this Greater Good magazine essay, he argues that touch is our primary language of compassion, and a primary means for spreading compassion. He reports on a wave of studies that have documented incredible emotional and physical health benefits that come from touch, suggesting that touch is truly fundamental to human communication, bonding, and health. [ more ]
Be The Change:
Try ending more of your friendly interactions with a casual touch, like a simple shoulder squeeze or pat on the back.
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| Good things happen when you get your priorities straight. –Scott Caan
Inspiration of the Day:
 As he knelt on the bedroom floor, on the phone with 911, something had gone wrong. When your wife is pregnant, no one tells you, “By the way, she might skip labor, suddenly fall to the floor, and give birth. Oh, and the umbilical cord might be tangled around the baby’s neck five times.” But that’s what happened to Josh Levs. In less than 15 minutes, with only instinct and the 911 operator to guide him, Levs delivers and brings his un-breathing baby to life. He reflects, “When it’s up to you to help your kid take his first breaths, you appreciate not only his but your own life in a new way.” [ more ]
Submitted by: Karthik J.
Be The Change:
What are your values and priorities? Take a moment to remember them.
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In 2000, the Census of Marine Life embarked on a 10-year mission to deepen our knowledge of the ocean. The study involved 2,700 scientists, 80 countries, 600 institutions, 500 expeditions and a staggering 9,000 days at sea. On top of recording tens of millions of individual marine organisms and their locations, it also identifies important climate changes. Among the discoveries of 6,000 potentially new species is a species of shrimp thought to have gone extinct 50 million years ago! [ 
As this distinguished molecular biologist says, “the ultimate decision of whether or not a piece of data is going to get used is completely subjective! To put it analytically, you look at your piece of data and you decide whether or not you think it looks pretty.” He continues, “Scientists devote not just a great deal of energy in thinking about their problem, but devote a great deal of personal emotion. We get involved. I love to recall the words from a lecture Vladimir Nabokov used to give on Tolstoy. He used to say “Tolstoy wrote with the precision of the artist and the passion of the scientist.” Inevitably some person would say, “Sir, didn’t you get those reversed?” But, of course, he didn’t. Johnson goes on to talk about beauty and consciousness in the context of today’s practice of science… [ 
Justice Clarence Thomas has not spoken during a Supreme Court argument in five years. In the past 40 years, no other member has been totally silent through a whole term– not to mention, five terms. Loud People, of course, get all the attention. But if we take a look around, we’ll notice that quiet people are everywhere. Quiet People are different from loners or introverts or recluses. And quietness is not the same as shyness. As one psychology professor notes, “There are people who wish to talk, but are too timid to do so” and there are those who “simply choose not to say much.” [ 
Camellias are flowers that often have showy blooms, some as big as plates. Their leaves can also make tea. But their standout trait is timing: they blossom in winter. [ 
Do you remember the name of your kindergarden teacher? I do, mine. Her name was Mrs White. I don’t remember much about what we learned in her class, but my mother once told me that we used to write a lot. And I would bring back what I wrote and she would look at it and see there were so many mistakes. But no red corrections. And always a star. Sometimes even a Good! scrawled in that would make my heart soar with happiness. But it worried my mother, so one day when she went in to meet Mrs White for one of those Parent-Teacher meetings, she asked her why she never corrected my mistakes… [ 
