Today is International Day of Happiness (Happy International Happiness Day everyone!) It’s also #1000Speak Day for March. The theme this month is happiness. I have a much better understanding of “happiness” now than I ever have. In part, I think, because I’ve experienced unhappiness in my life. And it’s easierContinue Reading
The theme for this month’s #1000Speak post is one that I feel completely unqualified to write about. Forgiveness. It’s not something I write about often (or that I’ve ever written about here at length), but the reason I feel unqualified is because I believe that there are, sometimes, things thatContinue Reading
I’ve been struggling to find some inspiration for this month’s #1000Speak topic – Love. I think a part of my problem is that I just can’t separate “compassion” from “love”. The two are inexorably intertwined. When I think about compassion, two people come to mind: The Dalai Lama has spentContinue Reading
Listen. It’s such a simple word. An anagram for silent. Which you should be while you’re listening. But listening isn’t the same as hearing. It’s not the same at all. Listening, active listening, involves actually taking the time to digest what the other person is saying. It takes time. AndContinue Reading
If you haven’t read about #1000Speak before, check out these posts… Be compassion. Feel compassion. Live compassion. Compassion for the Bully #1000Speak for Charleston, Ferguson and Paris… Re-connecting with Yourself Compassion for the Earth If you have, then you may know that this month’s topic is acceptance. This morning, IContinue Reading
The theme for this month’s #1000Speak for Compassion post is simply that “compassion”. I feel like it should be a simple thing. Compassion. It should be something that we all inherently have as a part of us when we’re born. Something that we feel towards others. That we don’t haveContinue Reading
The past few weeks you may have noticed that my posts have gotten a little deeper. I’ve been trying to reconnect and re-engage myself in several ways – especially related to my divorce. It’s very difficult sometimes as my co-parenting relationship continues to be maddening. Although I don’t appreciate theContinue Reading
It was a brutally long winter where I live. Most of the people who live here hibernate in the winter – Hubs braved the cold three times daily with the dog – but in the land where Costco thinks that dog poop has a “season”, he was pretty much theContinue Reading
Today’s #1000Speak post is supposed to be about bullying. And more specifically, compassion for bullies. Yes, you’re probably thinking bullies are the worst people on the planet and don’t deserve our compassion. I suppose in some cases that’s true. Consider however that some bullies don’t know any better. They weren’tContinue Reading
As I’ve been leading up to it for the past couple of weeks, I’ll point you again to my “Compassion is a Verb” piece – leading up to today’s overwhelming examples of human compassion on over 1000 blogger’s sites as part of the #1000Speak campaign started as a result ofContinue Reading
