Read more about the article I Could Have Saved One Honey Bee
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I Could Have Saved One Honey Bee

Words, believe it or not, hurt deeply. A heart that weeps the life of a honey bee will undoubtedly find its heart shattered to pieces by mean words that hurt another human being. I ask that you be kind to all living things. Good living is not just about doing good but about not doing bad to all living things. If you have nothing good to say about someone, please, for the transcience of being, for the preciousness that life is, treat your life and that of everyone else with reverence and compassion. Curb your tongue.

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May 26, 2020
Read more about the article How Close Are We To Achieving World Peace?
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How Close Are We To Achieving World Peace?

Then I came to Japan. And I collapsed. Exhausted. I became undone only to find a wellspring of new energy that slowly seeped into me. Slowly, I started to deflate. I heard birds chirping, cicadas singing their joyful songs, people conversing and laughing softly and life for me turned into a slow waltz. It can happen to you too. Promise.

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May 21, 2020
Read more about the article Is Your Way Better?
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Is Your Way Better?

A short message today, to take you into a glorious new week. “Love isn’t a state of perfect caring.  Love is an active verb, like ‘struggle.’  To love someone is to strive to  accept that person exactly the way  he or she is, right here and now.” — Mr. Fred Rogers

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May 17, 2020
Read more about the article How I Tried to Blend In, Failed but Found my ‘Funny’
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How I Tried to Blend In, Failed but Found my ‘Funny’

In the 1990s I was a new mother raising my kids in a land so foreign than my own that tuning in to the way I saw my mommy-friends do it turned to be the new normal I wanted to imitate. I tried the mamachari... "The mamachari is a cultural icon, it’s the Japanese equivalent of the family station wagon. It’s the family workhorse used on shopping runs, for riding to the local station, taking the kids to school or picking them up from sports practice. Without it families around the country would be in a right pickle. "— Byron Kidd

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May 11, 2020
Read more about the article You’re A Model. Say Cheese!
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You’re A Model. Say Cheese!

So parents, be good role models for your children. The future of humankind depends on it. You’re tired and feel spent, I know. I’ve been there. Still, be good models... the rewards will come; and when they do you'll comprehend why there’s no other job in the world quite as rewarding as that of being a good parent.

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May 7, 2020
Read more about the article How to Use Compassion as A Tool to Connect
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How to Use Compassion as A Tool to Connect

Each of us is good at our core.  We come from different walks of life; we know about our rights, justice, and how to set boundaries. We also know that doing good deeds makes us feel good. But did you also know that this feel-good emotion arises from compassion?  We all came bearing compassion. But, we lost it? Let me tell you how to get it back.  

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May 3, 2020
Read more about the article Trust the Wait, Embrace the Uncertainty, Live in the Season
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Trust the Wait, Embrace the Uncertainty, Live in the Season

I know that some of you reading this article today are feeling beat, depressed, disillusioned about things like your children’s prom as early as next month, perhaps; their upcoming class trips, graduations, and moving plans — that are yet to happen in the summer months. Now that we’re committed to living in the present, shouldn’t we be letting go of worrying over things that have yet to come to pass? Let’s not rush things. Instead, I ask that you put your hands together for the young ones, like yours in your homes, who are braving it now, here in Japan. Right now these young kids are living through those same milestone events that are yet to come in your area.

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April 30, 2020
Read more about the article Back, and With an ‘Important’ Message For You
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Back, and With an ‘Important’ Message For You

It was no fun being ripped away from you so unexpectedly. I missed so many milestones. I missed you! But now I'm back, just in time for Easter Monday. I wish to continue to forge ahead with the beautiful relationship we've started and in my most ordinary of ways, try to add value to your days every time I send you an email. Thank you for still being here. I appreciate you and wish you Miracles.

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April 13, 2020
Read more about the article Can’t Wait For Life to Return to The Way it Was?
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Can’t Wait For Life to Return to The Way it Was?

Us, modern people with smartphones, private jets, and our important, busy lives… Who of us is interested in tanning salons and hot yoga right now? Who of us is feeling impinged upon for having to miss out on monetary gains? Ours was a world that complained too much, stockpiled too much, stepped over those less fortunate, and lived too fast. What a future-less, made-up world we clung on to.

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March 31, 2020
Read more about the article Are You Looking for God?
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Are You Looking for God?

Have you been looking for God in all the wrong places? Perhaps you looked for Him in your place of worship but all you found was un-Godly people? Well, get ready to be surprised because after today you'll know exactly where to find God.

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March 24, 2020
Read more about the article You Already Have What It Takes To Be Happy
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You Already Have What It Takes To Be Happy

"To be happy is to find strength in forgiveness, hope in battles, security in the stage of fear, love in discord. "You will find that to be happy is not to have a perfect life. "Never give up on happiness, for life is an incredible show.” -- (Pope Francisco). Homily / Sermon.

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February 7, 2020
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