Wang Weiguo, an award-winning actor with the National Theatre Company of China, was wandering through Bejing’s Panjiayuan Flea Market when he found a treasure, 20 exquisite picture frames. He bought them all. Inside the frames were a woman’s life story. There were pictures of her as a baby and a growing child, pictures with...
In May 2011 it was just a dream. Now there are 300 reasons for hope on this blog. The numbers make me smile, but the real magic is in the people who have inspired me and all those who have stopped by the site. Before I started the blog I didn’t know about Julius...
Call them Generation Y, Millennials, Echo Boomers or the Net Generation. It’s not the name that counts but the spirit. We all need a sense of purpose, a belief that our lives count, that our time on the planet makes a difference. So this Generation Waking Up movement gives me hope. I watched the...
One of my fellow Care2 Causes bloggers, Steve Williams, shared this today. Thanks, Steve. Hip-hop artist Adair Lion won me over with this video. The Amarillo, Texas, artist comes out strongly with a song called “Gay Is OK.” The story woven through it is a heart tugger. Along with some straight-out, gutsy lyrics calling...
My command of Dutch is pretty rudimentary, but I get the drift of this site and think it’s absolutely fabulous. The Repair Café is where you take those small appliances, old chairs, ripped trousers or anything else that needs repair and get them fixed by volunteers. Imagine! Usually we end up throwing something away...
My friend Judith and I were walking in the glorious light of late-afternoon sun today. Our route took us past a bed of tulips that seemed to grow from tight buds to open flowers in two days. Among the masses of red tulips, the occasional errant yellow stood out. The same was true among...
I grew up in a farming area, where the labour of Mexican migrants was essential and taken for granted. It never occurred to me to wonder why so many skilled farmers had to leave their own country in order to make a living. It was many years before I understood the long history of...
In spite of her extraordinary heroism, Irena Sendlerova might have quietly slipped into the anonymity of history had a Kansas teacher not kept a clipping from the U.S. News and World Report. In the 1994 article Richard Z. Chesnoff wrote about “The Other Schindlers”, people who risked their lives to save Jews from the...
Ken Grenda is an unusual man. In an era when corporate greed and huge CEO salaries have become a global norm, he believes the gap between bosses and workers is unfair. He told radio station 3AW, “I get totally dismayed when you see some of the salaries the CEOs get paid.” After three generations...
Raise5 is the quirkiest fundraising site I’ve ever come across. It also has the lowest entry fee. Everything costs $5. I’ll let them explain: Raise5 is a fundraising platform that gives everyone a creative way to raise money for their favourite charities and non-profit organizations with their free time and talents. It works through...
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