World Kindness Day Comments
Thank you
Hi Everyone,
Thank you all for all those who participated on Nov 13. I really appreciated all your efforts. I have reposted your posts if you have either e-mailed them to me or if you have left a comment with your link to your article.
Look forward to reading all your posts. Thank you
Mari-Lyn Harris
Today is the Day - Happy World Kindness Day
Today is the day for you to blog about Kindness - I got the chills of just thinking about the difference we are going to make today and everyday after the fact.
I really look forward in reading your posts..If you have any questions just drop a comment or e-mail to me at stories at heartjam dot com. I will re-post your articles on heartjam.com so you can either e-mail them to me or just post them here and I will get them.
If you want to do a video post, great, I will post them all.
Here are some resources or place to get information or ideas to write about.
1. Your values and what actions you have taken
2. What inspires you in your life about kindness
3. www.randomactsofkindness.org
4. www.onemillionacts.com
5. artblessings.blogspot.com
6. community-kindness.blogspot.com
7. Do a google search for kindness there is are many site
8. Your stories and experiences are the best ones
Thank you for taking part in this event
Mari-Lyn Harris
I have just finished writing a blog post about World Kindness Day
www.yihanchiowblog.co.cc/2010/11/world-kindness-day-make-difference-with.ht...
Just a few more days left
Thank you for participating in the World Kindness Day event. I was thinking of ways to promote all of you, here's what I came up with.
As you write your posts, please send them to me at stories at heartjam dot com. I will be posting a link to your article or story once you have submitted them on heartjam.com. Hopefully, all of you will be able to read each other's post and leave a comment.
If you have any other suggestions, please leave a comment below.
Thank you
Mari-Lyn Harris
A Simple Act Of Kindness Everyday
Kindness is the quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic. It is the act of forgivingness, the tendency to be kind and forgiving. People who are kind are liked by everybody. Kindness is of two types: one shown towards fellow human beings where to make an effort to understand their problem and then give their resources to solve them and the other is the kindness which you show towards animals.
A Simple Act Of Kindness:
A simple act of kindness can change a person's whole day.
What was once dark, dismal, and gray, you can make gay.
It doesn't take much effort to impart something magnificent.
I must tell you that a kind word has much force, far from insignificant.
A simple act of kindness can be the difference between roads traveled,
for instance, to a troubled person needing a lift out of sinking gravel.
If you could save a life or a soul by giving a heartfelt greeting, I know you would.
Or, stop to say: "Are you okay?" to a soul that was needing.
A simple act of kindness can put colour back into a grimacing face;
Move someone from self-destruction and self-hate,
So they can find redemption in God's loving grace.
It need not be your life's work, but it can give worth to someone else's life:
Turn away from strife to a place where hope is rife.
A simple act of kindness can bridge the chasm between enemies;
Put aside pride and ambition so children can grow with fonder memories.
Our differences are so minute when likenesses are tallied,
That comforting a sick child is salient, no matter creed or malady.
A simple act of kindness can bring distance short;
When families are vexed and mouths speak of tort.
The irony of our Human frailties can be abated with kindness,
to put an end to senseless acts of depravity, and to visceral violence.
The effect of kindness
Cruelty can not change any one. It will make enemies and make a person tougher,stubborn than before.A sign of kindness will dramatically change a criminal to a socially acceptable person and his vision will change.Kindness draw people closer and closer.The pets also change their behaviour with kindness shown by any one.
Kindness Diet
A new document is available to download, also you can go to heartjam.com and download a PDF on Profiting with Virtuousness.
I have changed the Badge as well..it's easier to share and use.
Thank you
Love & Happiness
Mari-Lyn
Nominate a Kindness Hero
If you know of someone that you would like to appreciate, nominate them for a Kindness Hero Award.
Here's the link to nominate someone.
heartjam.com/happenings-events/nominate-a-hero/
Mari-Lyn Harris
The Origin of World Kindness Movement from one of it's Founders
Celebrating a Decade of Kindness...
Dear World Kindness Family,
A decade ago, Dr. Mori and the Small Kindness Movement of Japan dared to envision a kinder world beyond the borders of their own country. Like modern day pioneers, the SKM gathered like-minded organizations from Singapore, UK, Canada, South Korea and the USA, to explore new possibilities - to form a global kindness network!
From this initial conference in Tokyo, a spark was ignited! The basic objective, in preparation for the 21st century, "to ensure peace on earth through small kindnesses." In a joint declaration, the representatives pledged to spread the spirit of these meetings not only through their home countries but also through a united international voice!
Much has happened over the past ten years. The World Kindness Movement was formed in 1997, World Kindness Day was established and five more conferences were hosted! Most wonderfully, the World Kindness Movement has a Secretariat based in Singapore and has grown to nineteen countries!!!
There is much to celebrate on November 13th, 2006! Our global mission to connect individuals and countries to create a kinder and more compassionate world is evolving in so many interesting ways. The vibrancy and love that emanates from each and every act of kindness, committed in each country, has an immeasurable ripple effect that is felt around the world!
Let us thank Dr. Mori and the Small Kindness Movement of Japan for their powerful belief that by joining hands worldwide to sustain and promote human kindness, we can all make a positive difference on this planet that we call "home!"
"When we are devoted to the development of kindness….it becomes a movement of the heart so deep and subtle it is like a movement of the sea close to the ocean floor, all but hidden yet affecting absolutely everything that happens above. That's the force of kindness." - Sharon Saltzberg
Happy World Kindness Day!!!!
Sincerely,
Debbie Riopel
Founding Member of the World Kindness Movement
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World Kindness Day
Let's write about stories of kindness and the difference it has made in your life so we can transform and inspire others to join us.
The Origin of World Kindness Day: World Kindness Day evolved from a series of conferences in 1996-1997 in Japan by a group known as the World Kindness Movement. These conferences brought together groups interested in promoting more kindness around the world. It culminated in the "Declaration of Kindness" on November 13,1997. With this declaration, a new and very special day was born. I would like to have World Kindness - Wouldn't it be great? My kindness challenge is that everyone commit to performing Random Acts of Kindness, on this very day, and then blog about it. I challenge other Bloggers to to participate and truly make a difference by performing "random acts of kindness" or "paying it forward." Where did the concept of Random Acts of Kindness originate" "Established in 1995 as a 501c3 nonprofit organization, The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation is a resource for people committed to spreading kindness. We provide a wide variety of materials on our website, including activity ideas, lesson plans, project plans, teacher’s guide, project planning guide, publicity guide, and workplace resources on our website at http://www.actsofkindness.org – all free of charge." Source: actsofkindness.org
A little late....
11/16/10
by: wendy035
I did blog on the 13th, but forgot to post it. Here's my blog....
viewfrommysoapbox.blogspot.com/2010/11/world-kindness-day-bloggers-unite.ht...
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