Feel Good Friday...Sister Cyril of Calcutta

Feel Good Friday…Sister Cyril of Calcutta

The amount of good people are doing in the world never ceases to amaze me. I have to admit I have never heard of Sister Cyril. Yet she has changed 100s of thousands of lives. She has taught young people, she has taught teachers who go out and teach, she has influenced an entire city of over 50 million people. Yet we have never heard of her.

Here is her story:

http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=2551

Education will solve poverty much faster than money. “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for the rest of his life.”

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Feel Good Friday...Becoming SomeOne

Feel Good Friday…Becoming SomeOne

This short film by Nick Askew asks some very pointed questions in whimsical and fun way. You are looking for answers but you don’t know the questions! Gee I’ve never been there! You know you have to be someone but you don’t who or how to get there. Great music and a simple message:

http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=2545

And watch out! You may become someone while watching!

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Feel Good Friday...What is HIP?

Feel Good Friday…What is HIP?

HIP stands for the Heroic Imagination Project. This project, begun and designed by Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbrado, intends to create a process to identify and foster heroes in the world. The bad guys have ways to creat and foster suicide bombers, torture specialists, and murderers maybe we should start a process to do just the opposite. Let’s seed the world with heroes…people who won’t stand for injustice, inequality, and dehumanization.
Here is the TED talk on his project. This is a great idea. Check it out here:

http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=2243

What are you going to do today heroic?

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Feel Good Friday...Millionaire Janitor

Feel Good Friday…Millionaire Janitor

How many times have we heard of someone winning the lottery only to have all the money gone and their lives in shambles in short order? It seems that winning money far too often creates more problems than it solves. Here is a horse of a different color. Tyrone Curry won almost 4 million dollars a few years ago. He still works as a custodian at the school where we coaches the Track and Field team. And he just donated $40,000.00 for a new track.
See the video here:
http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=2333

This is a great example for all of us…with or without the money!

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Feel Good Friday ...graFEETi

Feel Good Friday…GraFEETi

This particularly poignant message really moved me. Imagine picking up your shoes after class and finding an inspirational message in them! What a very cool concept. Or buying a pair of shoes and finding the gift of an uplifting thought. Check it out here:

http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=2160

Feel inspired? You could do this too!


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Feel Good Friday...Food Crusader

Feel Good Friday…Food Crusader

Food is a big one with me. I love to eat. I love to prepare it for friends. I love to grow. In this video a very unlikely crusader for food ties it all together. From the introduction of foreign proteins into the food chain to the incidence of cancer (USA is the highest in the world) to the cost of health care (we spend more than any other country) and a few other loose ends Robyn O’Brien creates a compelling, logical and rational discussion for an overhaul of how we eat, produce and market food. This problem is not going away and it is not going to get any better until we start insisting that is does. In the meantime, grow a garden! I picked the first ripe tomato this morning! Go here for the video:
http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=2343
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Feel Good Friday...Wind Art

Feel Good Friday…Wind Art

Imagine coming upon one of these creatures while walking along the beach one day. This is some very cool stuff. For myself I can’t imagine the imagination and resourcefulness it takes to create such a critter. See it here:

http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=1488

Create something today out of stuff you have lying around. It will be cool and it’s good for your brain to stretch in this way!
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