Time For A Change...

It's time for a change of thinking.
Try giving someone ten today...

Sonja's Random Acts Of Kindness Make The World A Better Place...

Hello Keith
I wish to order your book 'How To Live Well On 
A Small Income'. I will describe my next attempt to give 10 to an unknown person in need. 
It's not easy here, you know?! 
In recent times, from 'privatization' and mafia government, 99% of people in Croatia are poor or nearly poor or much poorer than before, and less than 1% is filthy rich, without morals - and they don't walk around or shop in supermarkets. Not the same, but a similar situation like in Russia, which you might know. So when I try to give 10 to someone - to the school teacher who is searching for something for dinner in a trash can or an unemployed engineer who collects empty bottles, they recognize me as equal, human hearted, hard surviving person 
and refuse to take 10 from me. 
Today I have some money, and when tomorrow the luck turns you will give 10 to me, I said to these persons, but still they didn't want to take my money. So I discovered other tactics: I offer some candies, fruits, cigarettes. That's accepted. Also I invented envelopes with some little money, but for that I have to know where the person in need lives. I write some funny letter about them winning some prize and put them in their mailbox. That way I am not ruining their pride. 
Last year I became the owner of a vehicle, a simple car, and I invented this '10': When I see someone, especially if they're old or weak, on a lonely bus stop, and it's raining or hot or late, I offer them a lift home. You think this is easy, but it's not. An old sick woman with her heavy bags on a hot day refused me twice (after shopping I passed that bus stop without a timetable and saw her still waiting)! 
Have I deserved your book? 
As for my story: sure, do show it to others. 
I'm an unemployed half-ill professor of literature and language, I'm nearly homeless but 
I do have a garden. 
My monthly income for 1/4 time job is around 200 € and my country is not cheap. 
Love, Sonja.

Thankyou Sonja and thankyou too
for allowing me to publish your letter.
You will have received the little book by now.
Much Aroha to you...

Be Kinder...

We never know what the person in front of us
at the checkout or sitting next to us on the bus or train is having to deal with.
We can be kinder...

I Gave Someone Ten Today...

I Gave Someone Ten Today...

A Simple Random Act Of Kindness By A New York Cop Becomes An Extraordinary Event...

I have a pair of boots for you.
They're all weather. Let's put them on and take care of you.
Jennifer Foster from Arizona just happened to be in New York's Time Square and with her mobile phone captured a shot of NYPD cop Larry De Primo engaged in a simple, random act of kindness and generosity of spirit.
We're used to seeing police involved in brutal situations brandishing batons and pointing guns.
We as the public of the world, need to see this sort of kindness but not see it as an extraordinary event.
Let's make it a common event.
Most of humanity is engaged in their own lives of desperation but we're all capable of small and random acts of kindness.
Thanks Jennifer Foster and thank you Larry De Primo for making a difference.
Maybe the world can be a better place...

Hannah Brencher Thinks We Should Write Love Letters To Strangers...

Hannah Brencher's family always wrote letters to each other, yes letters, with a pen, on paper, and using stamps, and envelopes, posted them, yes, to each other.
And these letters would arrive at the delighted recipients mail box.
Hannah started writing letters as a kind of therapy when at university. She'd write love letters and leave them for strangers to find.
Then, in the course of a year she wrote and mailed out over 400 hand penned letters.
Her random acts of love and kindness soon turned into a global initiative.
This lovely lady who also writes a blog. She believes in the power of the pen on paper and has started The World Needs More Love Letters which simply encourages strangers to exchange love letters.
I found Hannah on TED. You can too...