This is a video about what this holiday season is meant to be about – love and compassion, even in the face of intolerance and hate:
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EveryoneMatters.2012.com
This should get you smiling…
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It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust, and Rory Sutherland the Ad Man is back. His message is essentially the same as in his 2009 TED Talk, but it bears repeating that our perception of an event or a circumstance is more important than the “reality”:
The circumstances of our lives may matter less than how we see them, says Rory Sutherland. At TEDxAthens, he makes a compelling case for how reframing is the key to happiness.
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The kind of hope I often think about …is, I believe, a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us or we don’t. Hope is not a prognostication — it’s an orientation of the spirit. Each of us must find real, fundamental hope within himself. You can’t delegate that to anyone else.
Hope in this deep and powerful sense is not the same as joy when things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but rather an ability to work for something to succeed. Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It’s not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. It is this hope, above all, that gives us strength to live and to continually try new things, even in conditions that seem as hopeless as ours do, here and now. In the face of this absurdity, life is too precious a thing to permit its devaluation by living pointlessly, emptily, without meaning, without love, and, finally, without hope.
Vaclav Havel, in Never Hope Against Hope, Esquire.com
Happy people dancing on Planet Earth, from Matt Harding’s “Where The Hell is Matt?” YouTube video series. Touching and fun. Humans the world over have more in common than we have differences.
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To read Matt’s interesting story, go to the Where The Hell is Matt? website.
*Okay, I know the world is confusing enough much of the time without having blog postings entitled “Saturday At The Movies” going up on Friday! Thanks to Donna, faithful reader and kindred spirit, for the heads up on the mix-up. Happy FRIDAY everyone!*
An amazing story of best friends, a man and a crocodile:
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This video went viral on YouTube, with over six million views after four days. And no wonder – it really is the best proposal ever!
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Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers I know, especially my own mom, my mom-in-law, and my step-mom. May your day be as special as you are!