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, 02 September 2011 00:00 | | 
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On the first day of class, teacher Marva Collins approached a boy who refused to work and told him:
‘I am not going to give up on you. I’m not going to let you give up on yourself. If you sit there leaning against this wall all day, you are going to end up leaning on something or someone all your life. And all that brilliance bottled up inside you will go to waste.’
Photo by Mladen Penev
Published on Friday, 26 August 2011 00:00 | | |
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Brazilian policemen work in a child-care centre in the favela to strengthen community ties and try to overcome the distrust engendered by years of police corruption.
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 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.
Published on Friday, 29 July 2011 00:00 | | |
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More fascinating facts you never knew about smiling:
One smile can give the same level of brain stimulation as 2000 bars of chocolate.
Smiling can be as stimulating as receiving £16,000 in cash.
When you smile others think you are more competent.
Unborn babies smile.
Your smile can be a predictor of how long your marriage lasts.
Read more from Ron Gutman on the power of the smile.
Published on Friday, 15 July 2011 00:00 | | |
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When Dave deBronkart was told he was dying, he went online, linked up with other cancer patients, and found a life-saving treatment his doctors hadn’t heard of, writes Geraldine Betz.
Published on Wednesday, 13 July 2011 00:00 | | |
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A delightful visual diary of a flight from New York to Berlin created by illustrator Christoph Niemann. And what are those little holes in the airplane window for?