Do you know someone who feels alone? Do you have someone in your life; your child, your student, a friend, a partner, or someone you pass by occasionally, that you can tell is suffering? Last weekend I had the honor of performing at a benefit for Kid in The Corner and…
Category: compassion
Lyft, More Than Just Convenient When Fireball Wins
Our vision was to reinvent cities around people, not cars. That vision originated with one of our cofounders, who spent his life in Los Angeles, sitting in traffic and thinking to himself, there has got to be a better way. Melissa Waters, VP Marketing at Lyft Gize gave me a…
Empathy Moves Mountains
This is just a reminder that your empathy will always be more important, more impactful, and more life changing to this world than your opinion ever will be. Empathy removes confining walls and allows space for healing and understanding. Empathy moves mountains. – Kate Held In My Opinion, now, more than…
Life, We’re In It Together
Last Saturday night about 9:45 the husband and I returned home from dinner at Bandera in Scottsdale (Go sometime! It’s fantastic) and had just settled down to see if the season premiere of SNL was streaming early. It wasn’t. But just as we cuddled up together and began a search…
10 Ways To Be Kind You Didn’t Think Would Count
You don’t have to do big things in every moment of every day, even simple, small things will change the world. 10 things you can do this week to feel better about yourself and maybe set a good example to someone…your child, your mate, total strangers, squirrels. 1. Put your…
How to be Beautiful, Part 1
Beauty Tip #1: Our beauty, or lack of, is always, merely the reflection of where we are directing our gaze. For example: Beaming with pride for someone else. I am photographed often in this particular state. I’m a wife, mother, teacher, general “lover of all things sweet and beautiful and…
Funny Can Equal Kindness
Kindness tip of the week: look for the funny in everything and life is easier to handle. For example! The-Very-Patient-Husband accompanied me to a doctor’s appointment on Friday. It was a serious appointment, we were both a little nervous and became even more so when the nurse greeted us. She…
Black Rock Coffee Bar-A Very Good Place
We have this great place in my hood to meet for coffee, or to get a little work done with a cup of coffee out among other human beings. The first time I walked into this new place to meet a friend, Kathy (she’s very nice, you should try to…
The Neighborhood Table
Kindness tip for the week: It’s okay to ask for help. Allowing help gives a chance to shorten the distance between loneliness and a life shared.
The Kindness War
“There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear There’s a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to beware I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound Everybody look what’s going down There’s battle lines being drawn Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong” Stephen…