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Posted by geri
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Tuesday, 22 August 2006 |
 Greg Mortenson is an anti-terrorism warrior in the Islamic strongholds of
Afghanistan and Pakistan, and his main weapon is schools... "Americans are now learning that we can't fight the war on terrorism
with bombs, but with books," said Mortenson, 48, founder of a movement
that has built 55 schools in those two countries in the past 13 years, educating 24,000 children.
I can't think of a better cause for Americans to support. His Pennies for Peace raises money from American schoolkids by collecting pennies to build his schools. His new book is Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations One School at a Time. (Full story: Rocky Mountain News)
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Posted by geri
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Sunday, 20 August 2006 |
 Do you want to hear something good about yourself?
From Netropolis Design in Australia comes the Automatic Flatterer.
Just tell the web page your name and you get the opportunity to read all sorts of good
things about yourself. (It's true that despite all of our foibles, we really are good!)
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Posted by ERIC BUTTERWORTH
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Friday, 18 August 2006 |
Unity
Minister Eric Butterworth inspired thousands with his belief that
positive attitudes create personal renewal. A theologian, lecturer, and
author of 16 books, his pulpit was New York's Lincoln Center. He passed
on in 2003, at 86, but his energy still revitalizes.
"I love the story Charles Edison, former Gov. of New Jersey, tells of his father, Thomas Edison.
He says in 1914 when Edison Industries of West Orange, New Jersey was
practically destroyed by a great fire, most of Edison’s life work
was going up in flames. So the young man, concerned, looked about for
his father and he finally came upon him...
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Read more... [Inspiration Point: Coping With Disappointment]
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Posted by donnabeales
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Friday, 18 August 2006 |
An Act of Kindness happened to me yesterday, in The Illawarra, NSW - Australia.
I was at the chemist needing a perscription filled as I was suffering from a very bad ear infection, but unfortunately I did not have all of the money to cover what I needed. This woman I have never met before was in the chemist and could see how ill and distraught I was. She asked me, "How much do you need?"
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Read more... [Generosity of a Stranger]
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Posted by Lydia Talmers-Nieuwoudt
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Friday, 18 August 2006 |
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For years, while working, I have
watched
world crises come and go. CNN changed the way war was viewed. As their
satellites delivered the same images to countries across the globe at
the same time, we viewed the images together. I noted another revolutionary development
happening in the past weeks in the Middle East : The Arab World, The
Israeli World and The Western World all reported the same
facts regarding news from Lebanon.
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Read more... [A Bright Spot in Today's Middle East]
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