June 2012
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Can goodness last or can we only mean well in the...
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Kindness Captured! →
American Bear and Guerilla Goodness are collaborating to bring you Kindness Captured: A Day of Bravery and Kindness in Syracuse, Richmond, New York City and Dallas. (This link leads you to the Syracuse page.) All around the city we will be placing Kindness Kits — complete with a draw your own mission envelope, the props you need to complete the missions, instructions, and a disposable camera...
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Kindness and Letters. Letters and Kindness.
http://roughoutlines.blogspot.com/2012/06/kindness-and-letters-letters-and.html
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Challenge for the day!
Say something nice to a complete stranger. You never know how you might turn someone’s day around.
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Austin, Texas.
We played a show at Lovejoy’s. The next morning I was hungover, sleep deprived and had 8 dollars to my name. I go to the nearest gas station by our hotel. Grab an energy drink and ask for a pack of smokes. The girl behind the counter is listening to really loud rap, its cool, I like rap. She says “that’ll be 7.50” I pull my money out of my pocket, its only 3...
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May 2012
27 posts
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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes...
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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A Conversation With God
I was coordinating an event a film festival in town and we had some weird security issues (the director, main actor had a stalker who was going to show up (and did show up) and we were told to keep him out of the theater.
So that happened — quickly, pretty painlessly, but it totally put me on edge.
So about 30 minutes into the film (I was outside because we were having issues with the...
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He Puts the Lotion on his Skin
Last night while at trivia with my friends a man approached us. First he asked for a cigarette. None of us smoke. Then he asked if we could do him another favor. He said he had just gotten out of prison and he needed someone to put burn lotion on his shoulders. I hesitated. He said, “The threw baby oil on me.” And so I stood up and spend about 2 minutes putting lotion on a strangers...
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Show Em' That You Care
One random act of kindness is all it takes to show a stranger that you care.
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