Project: One Heart I need your help. I originally started this page because I wanted to do something BIG. Then I realized that BIG is overwhelming and intimidating and that BIG really is in the small, that small acts of kindness each day build love and compassion, build hope and promise. Still. I can’t get BIG out of my head. I have a keen interest in feeding hungry children, in doing MY part to end childhood poverty. Maybe someday I will. For now that idea is, well, just a bit BIG. I also have another thought running around my brain. I am a huge fan of peace and compassion. TRUE peace and compassion. Dalai Lama peace and compassion. Mother Teresa. I love you. Period. Just because you exist. I love you regardless what you wear, what color your skin is, what God you do or do not pray to, how much money you make, on whom you choose to shower your love. I posted this picture of myself and blurb recently because I was disgusted by some of the behavior I’ve seen around me lately. Then I realized that simply “not hating” does not mean “showing love.” I have been stuck on this idea in my head a lot lately. It is going nowhere. I engage in huge private brainstorm sessions, determined to change the world, determined to make a BIG difference, determined to DO something with this idea. Is this a FOR-profit? Is it a NON-profit? What is the focus? What is the target group? To what CAUSE am I contributing? Then I get overwhelmed and run sniveling back to my complacency corner. My life is good. It is okay. I am kind and considerate and that is enough. Except that, no, it is not enough. Well. I am starting a movement. Project: One Heart. We are not individual people living on this planet. We are one. What I do for you, I do for myself. If I drag you down, I can only harm myself. If I build you up, I go along with you. Project: One Heart is NOT a FOR-profit. It is NOT a NON-profit. It is each of us doing what we can from where we are. Every day. Could you donate a bag of groceries to a family that is struggling? Could you give boxes of children’s books to a local elementary? Do you knit or crochet? How about making scarves for homeless children? Project: One Heart, though, is also about giving in the BIG--taking over day care needs for a single mom, paying for an impoverished student’s first year of college tuition, offering backyard space for a neighborhood garden. Maybe you could even start a kindness movement of your own. The idea is to wake every day asking yourself, “How will I give of who I am and what I have?” I want your stories. I want your photos and comments and ideas you have for those of us who have none. On my part, I plan to go out today and do five random acts of kindness. It’s not a lot. It’s not nearly on the scale of giving that I want to give. But I realize now that a thought living in my head will not warm someone who is cold, feed someone who is hungry, or love someone who is lonely. A thought living in my head is just a thought. Living in my head. Join me, will you? Peace. ♥
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:01:39 +0000
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