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Your Excellent Adventure

A few weeks ago I was standing off to the side in a quiet airport. I overheard a man talking with his friend. He was recounting all the things he wanted to do “someday”. The list of items he noted was, in many ways, fairly typical of ideas that people have about improving the quality [...]

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School on wheels brings classes to Indian slums

HYDERABAD, India — On a hot afternoon, a bright orange bus drives into a slum area of the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, parking amidst shelters made of tarpaulins and bits of wood. Barefoot children come running, eyes shining, and troop inside. It’s a school on wheels that brings education to the doorstep of disadvantaged children [...]

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How to Be Amazed: See the Wonder in Small Things

by Lauren Rosenfeld

Wonder is all around us. When we were children, we saw it everywhere we looked. Everything was new, fresh, amazing. We grabbed the closest adult to show them these small miracles we saw in the world, from the brilliant yellow dandelions spouting through the grass, to the shape-shifting of a summer cloud. As adults, we [...]

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We can break atoms, and each other’s hearts

by Rochelle Burns

“Great people make you feel you, too, can be great,” said Mark Twain. Life is all about relationships explains a scientist in, “Your Must: Your Purpose in Life.” He says: “We spend an inordinate amount of time finding, dealing with, manipulating, splicing genes when our most important challenge in life is relationships. After we have [...]

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Support for Tommy and His Doll

by Moments Count

From Teaching Tolerance by Ted Palenski Camilla was drawing a doll she was planning to get with her parents over the weekend. She was talking to herself in sing-song tones as she drew the doll, some of her clothes and her own house. Across the table sat Tommy; he heard Camilla talking about the doll [...]

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What Can You Accomplish?

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

What can you accomplish when you combine your desire, effort and imagination? Well, just about anything. Your commitment, energy and intensity will pave the road to your accomplishment. For while the unique vista of from which each of us views the world is as individual as we are, causing each of us to interpret “accomplishment” [...]

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Becoming Stronger

by Paula O Sullivan

I was asked a while back, ‘How do we become strong?’ I just love being asked this kind of thing, it throws my mind into a mad swirl of questions! I would consider myself a very strong woman, but I hadn’t ever taken the time to analyse just how I got here! Until now that [...]

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NEWS!

by Alexandra Wallace

There’s a reason last year that I decided to take on the challenge of making a photograph each day – it motivates you to keep practicing your craft, whether you feel like it or not in the moment. This year, with the [fifty two weeks.] project I’ve taken some photos I’m pretty happy with, but [...]

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Holy Land tours provide a new tool in peacebuilding

by Moments Count

Jerusalem – Shira Nesher, an Israeli, stands alongside Fakhira Halloun, a Palestinian, as Nesher tells her story about life in a conflict zone to a group of American university students who are hanging onto her every word. “My family members are Holocaust survivors, and as an Israeli I grew up in an environment of fear [...]

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When to listen to fear (and when not to)

by Lauren Rosenfeld

If fear tells you not to step onto a pond that has just frozen over, it is a good idea to listen to fear. But if fear tells you not to set foot outside your door in the winter because there may be frozen ponds out there, it’s best to overcome the voice of fear, [...]

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