Welcome to the ezine produced by SGI Buddhists that prompts the positive, kindles the constructive, highlights the hopeful and leaves you feeling - well, up!
Published on Friday, 12 August 2011 15:36 | | 
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Those working on the front line at street level have been concerned for years about large groups of young adults creating their own parallel communities with different rules, says social reformer Camilla Batmanghelidjh. 'It costs money to care. But it also costs money to clear up riots, savagery and antisocial behaviour,' says the founder of Kids Company. 'I leave it to you to do the financial and moral sums.'
Published on Friday, 12 August 2011 12:29 | | |
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Cutting back on one’s sleep to get more done is a false economy, according to recent scientific research. Our minds become creative powerhouses while we sleep, producing new ideas and solutions to problems.
Paul McCartney said he awoke with the tune of Yesterday in his head, and Robert Louis Stevenson reported that the idea for The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde came to him in a dream!
Published on Friday, 12 August 2011 12:12 | | |
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Our consumer culture continually suggests to us that buying things will make us happier. Retail therapy might not solve our problems, but temporarily it can make us feel good.
So what would happen if we made a decision not to buy anything, not even food, for a week?
Published on Friday, 12 August 2011 07:23 | | |
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Kurt Kuenne’s famous short film Validation doesn’t ask us to have faith in human nature, it urges us to create it by concentrating on the goodness and dignity of ordinary people.
In Slow, another film from Kuenne, a frustrated traffic safety worker changes his mind about his uneventful life after accidentally being caught in a newspaper photograph.
Watch it online: Slow
Published on Wednesday, 10 August 2011 11:20 | | |
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Cases of malignant melanoma, the most dangerous type of skin cancer, are rising faster in the UK than any other form of cancer. The figures are particularly high in younger people, which experts say is due to so-called ‘binge sunbathing’.
Louise Ellis tells her story in The Daily Mail of being diagnosed with a lentigo maligna melanoma, which developed from a harmless looking freckle.
Published on Monday, 01 August 2011 11:46 | | |
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While fans find it hard to believe Amy Winehouse, a young, rich and talented singer, could fall so hard so fast, many clamour for some serious, meaningful help for wayward youngsters with this killer tendency.
Middlegate, the only teen rehab in the UK, closed in February 2010. Since then Sarah Graham, an addictions expert and campaigner, has been vocal in her mission to re-establish some form of residential treatment for the youth that cannot get better in the current system of 'help within the community'.
In an admirable move, Amy's father Mitch Winehouse wants to establish a Foundation that will open a Treatment Centre for those unable to afford expensive private treatment. That way something positive could come from Amy's death.
Published on Friday, 05 August 2011 00:00 | | |
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‘If I can help one girl, why not five? Why not ten?’ That's what Maggie Doyne asked herself after paying seven dollars for a Nepalese child’s school fees during a gap year trip.