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Kindness Virtues – Courage 10 Aug 2013 | 04:29 pm
During our hike across the country hundreds of people were kind to us. Almost all of them wished us to “Be safe” or “Safe travels” upon our departure. Think about the irony in that. It’s a topic I’...
Kindness Virtues – Humility 21 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
This summer I am a Program Director for a residential YMCA camp; that interferes with my posting on a regular basis. Picking up where I left off regarding kindness virtues, the next one is humility. ...
Kindness Virtues – Leisure 16 Jun 2013 | 06:11 pm
As we walked across the country there was a direct correlation between the type of road we walked on (when not on trail, bike paths or hiking cross-country) and how frequently people stopped to offer ...
Kindness Virtues – Empathy 14 Jun 2013 | 04:22 pm
As an experienced teacher I’ve acquired a sense of when my “audience” is paying attention or not. When I gave talks across the country about kindness, community and humanity the part that garnered th...
Kindness Virtues 10 Jun 2013 | 05:14 pm
Kindness is a virtue that best resides in the context of community, a local setting of intimacy. Kindness requires several virtues in their own right. I list them here: Empathy Leisure Humility Cour...
Using Community Virtues to Address Serious Issues 7 Jun 2013 | 03:41 pm
Self-sufficiency, oneness, networks, expectations and kindness are all virtues in their own. They all are right, how we were meant to behave starting out as an altruistic species. They all are good,...
Community Virtues – Kindness 6 Jun 2013 | 04:08 pm
You can find kindness anywhere, as we did when we hiked across the country. Having said that, kindness resides where there are intimate connections and our empathy kicks in. Kindness does not reside...
Community Virtues – Expectations 1 Jun 2013 | 04:16 pm
On the one hand people tend to conserve energy while on the other hand people want to belong. The first impulse allows someone else to expend the energy necessary to get something done, while the sec...
Community Virtues – Networks 30 May 2013 | 06:23 pm
Community networks are the same as social networks. People extend what they are capable of doing by the people with whom they connect. In theory, everyone in a vibrant community is connected; networ...
Community Virtues – Oneness 29 May 2013 | 03:31 am
I’ve already shared on here the most memorable quote from the ADT Journey. The Director of the community meals program in Leaville, CO stated that their goal was to “confuse who is giving and who is ...
