While she was in the White House, Michelle Obama invited 12 or so of her closest friends to spend the weekend with her at Camp David every two or three months. “Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built on a thousand small kindnesses….swapped back and forth and over again,” Obama wrote […]
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Overwhelm the world
by resolutewoman on October 22, 2019 in change, courage, kindness
“Do your little bits of good where you are. It’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world,” Desmond Tutu once said.
Humankind
by resolutewoman on October 8, 2019 in kindness
Recently, I saw my favorite bumper sticker on a car in a parking lot: “Humankind. Be both.” –Joy
I shall help you
by resolutewoman on June 8, 2019 in courage, friends, kindness
I found this quote while I was in New Mexico recently. I don’t remember where. But, it seems very appropriate to our world today. “One doesn’t ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer. This is enough for me. You belong to me, and […]
Where does it hurt?
by resolutewoman on March 23, 2019 in kindness, love, Uncategorized
“later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt? it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere” –Warsan Shire We found this poem in an email message from Charter for Compassion.
In the kindness way
by resolutewoman on June 26, 2018 in kindness
What the world needs is a lot more kindness. I found this quote recently in a restaurant. “Do the kindness things in the kindness way.” –Joy
Confetti kindness
by resolutewoman on June 23, 2018 in kindness
I bought “Happy Clips for Chips” from Natural Life because I liked the words decorating one of them: “Throw kindness around like confetti!” –Joy
The manly Mr. Rogers
by resolutewoman on June 21, 2018 in friends, kindness
Mr. Rogers showed us what it means to be a neighbor—and also what it means to be a man, writes David Roark in the June 17, 2018, issue of The Dallas Morning News. “Explicitly and implicitly, we’ve indoctrinated males to be tough, harsh and domineering, to avoid emotions and, in turn, to dominate, demean and […]
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
by resolutewoman on June 19, 2018 in friends, kindness
Fred Rogers believed everyone “has inherent dignity,” writes Alissa Wilkinson on Vox. The new documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” succeeds, Wilkinson says, “on the radically subversive and obvious notions we learned when we were children: that being nice is not a weakness, that speaking with care is a thing we do simply because we […]
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