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Saturday, 29 April 2006 |
 EDITOR'S BLOG
This weekend I brought our kids and myself to the Ginger Cascades Girl Scout camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. For your daily dose of News to Enthuse, I'm making a car trip once a day with my laptop to surf the local library's WiFi network in Hickory, NC. So, updates will not be as plentiful while I enjoy some time off this weekend. (Hickory, by the way, is a small and stately city with a handsome historical district. It hosts two college campuses and many young families pushing strollers on sidewalks lined with huge trees and manicured lanes.
A group of NC homeschoolers rented the camp and handled details for 30 families so we could play (and sometimes learn) together for four days. Most of us are "unschoolers" and practice natural learning. We don't believe our kids need textbooks, curriculums, and most certainly, standardized tests, to become smart, educated, lifelong learners. In fact, those things often deter the creative kid by setting up a pattern of rebellion, resentment or apathy toward learning. (Sound familiar?) |
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Tuesday, 18 April 2006 |
 EDITOR'S BLOG
The
full name of the honeybee that arrived at my backdoor in a huge
swarming mass is Apis mellifera ligustica. We live on the water in a
semi-wooded area so we've logged many great wildlife stories over the
years. But the honeybee adventure this weekend ranks near the top. And
it's a neat example of positive thinking leading to good outcomes in
one's life. I insist (in Why Good News)
that if you consciously focus your thoughts on the positive, you will
have less sickness, less misfortune, less loss, less failure, less
crime, less fear and less futility over the long run of your life.
When
I saw the bees, I might have latched onto fears of "African bees" or
generally bad outcomes, but I immediately swatted any fears away, and
focused on finding a solution calmly. As a result I was led down a
truly enjoyable path.
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Tuesday, 18 April 2006 |
EDITOR'S BLOG
I want
to tell you about some new content on the site. First, I continue
uploading by category the stories archived from 1997-2003. Good Samaritans
is almost complete and is definitely worth checking out. Joomla, the
engine controling our site, displays all the articles by title so you
can browse easily and click on anything that looks juicy to you. To me,
one of the juiciest is from Jan 10, 1999: Spending $50,000 and Seven Years of Your Life, to Free a Stranger from Prison. Also, check out the 9-11 story
of the tiny New Foundland town of Gander that cared for 53 jet planes
blocked from reaching their destination after the attacks.
The Letters page
is up and demonstrates the healing power of the Good News Network.
Literally. Additionally, notes are featured from well-known people who
have written to express their thanks for my compelling good news. . . .
Ciao for now... geri
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Monday, 10 April 2006 |
Happy Monday!
We have constantly improved our site since its launch on March 14, thanks especially to PassionSpire for the needed web services and technical expertise:
- The Archive of more than 600 stories published from
1997-2003 is being moved here. It will be broken down for browsing by
category and each three year period. You can also use our search engine
to find old stories. Only the Earth and Inspiration sections have been moved so far.
- A blog is being set up for me to do announcements (like this) and ramblings (like that). It is called "G is for blog".
- Coming soon a calendar... Submit your dates and events for publishing
- I finished posting "TWENTY MUSLIM INVENTIONS that Shaped Our World". If you haven't read them, you gotta check it out.
One of the things GNN-i strives for is to break stereotypes. It doesn't
get anymore compelling than this, especially for us westerners: Islamic
science and cultural was WAY ahead of Europe in so many ways in earlier
centuries.
I hope you have been enjoying the features like "On this day in
history", and the "Inspiration Point" included for your morning coffee
break. I would like some feedback, especially for the daily history
item. Do you like it? Or does it take too much space away from news?
What are your other comments about the content so far? I try honor your
time by publishing only what is most compelling... Until next blog post
... geri
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Saturday, 18 March 2006 |
Welcome to "G is for.... Blog"
G is for Growing pains and Glitches
Well, I sure needed those quotes this morning! (see below and also Inspiration Point for March 18 )
After a week of technical problems with the site, our glitches have yet
to be resolved. On top of that, I ran into a website this morning with
SO MANY of the features I want for this site -- technorati feed,
de.licio.us tags preset for each story, multiple tags
for each story that lead to related topics, headline links for mobile
phones to bookmark... I feel that all this angst is forcing me to be
smarter, to rise to the occasion... to be compassionate with myself. .
. So I'm learning something, which is good. Try to see the good in your pain.
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"Smart, useful pain comes to you because you are taking risks, and
acting out of love and adventure. It is trying to make you smarter. In Kabbalah,
in tarot, the devil card is the archetype of the Riddler, who presents
us with insolvable problems so we can get smarter by rising to the
occasion. Pain is demanding that we get more loving and expansive."
- Rob Brezsny (Author, Pronoia is the antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings
"Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility."
- Simone Weil
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