Why Intergenerational Connections Strengthens Compassion

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June 1 is Intergenerational Day Have you noticed interactions between young children and older people? Some interactions are cute and sweet. Other interactions show fear and confusion. The way to get positive exchanges between the generations is to bring them together, let them intermingle and enjoy time with each other. Time together reduces fear and intimidation while … Read more

Love a Library Month

It’s Love a Library Month! There’s something about old libraries that I love, ones like Crested Butte Old Rock Library in Colorado! I visited there the day after I learned it’s “love a library month,” how coincidental is that!  This sweet library has the old town charm, being built as a schoolhouse originally in 1883, … Read more

How Weeding Out the Bad in Your Child’s Life is Like Weeding a Garden

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Remove the bad to make room for the good Weeding is a critical part of gardening, just like it is in cultivating a compassionate child. Weeds in a garden choke out the plants, robbing them of needed nutrients to grow healthy and produce delicious and nutritious fruits, vegetables, gorgeous flowers. Weeds can also choke out … Read more

How Sunlight to a Plant is like Energizing Compassion in a Child

Be the Inspiration of Compassionate Actions to Energize Your Child Plants need the energy from sunlight like a child needs the guiding light and direction to demonstrate compassionate action. Plants need light for photosynthesis which allows the plant to absorb energy through the chlorophyll in its leaves. It then converts this energy into food. A child needs … Read more

Can You See Beauty in Old, Tarnished, and Worn Things?

Society Leads Us to Believe That Only Youth is Beautiful. I couple years ago I was told I needed  an anti-wrinkle cream to look beautiful, or at least, not ugly. It was an ad that popped in on my computer about a story of a little boy who had two grandmas. He called one his … Read more