BC Gov News Office of the Premier Premier’s statement on racism in B.C. during COVID-19 Sunday, May 17, 2020 12:20 PM Premier John Horgan has released the following statement about racist activity Read more…
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THE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: WITNESSING DEEP, NATURAL CARE IN THE HOSPITAL
–> A lot of what I read online about patient care and support for caregivers is negative. I read about compassion fatigue running rampant in hospitals. Or about physician burnout. I read about how, in our society today, there is no place for kindness or caring. It is almost as
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: PRACTICING KINDNESS ON MYSELF, THE BUDDHIST WAY
Yesterday I had a massage. I needed it because for about a week now, I was grumpy from feeling rickety. A searing ache in my lower back meant that climbing stairs was a slow process and lifting my left leg to slide into the driver’s seat hurt like the blazes.It
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: HOSPITALS NEED KINDNESS POLICE STAT!
This is my cyber friend and fellow disability Mom/activist, Sue Robins. Sue is a wonderful writer and regular blogger. I was so outraged by Sue’s hospital experience being treated for breast cancer that I had to share her entire post. Read below for my thoughts on how to fix the
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: HOSPITALS NEED KINDNESS POLICE STAT!
This is my cyber friend and fellow disability Mom/activist, Sue Robins. Sue is a wonderful writer and regular blogger. I was so outraged by Sue’s hospital experience being treated for breast cancer that I had to share her entire post. Read below for my thoughts on how to fix the
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: The Emperor of Caregiver Talents: Kindness
The problem with kindness is that we take it for granted. We assume that it will be there when we suffer and need it the most. But human kindness is that rare and natural resource in our world. It’s endangered by the race towards independence and self-reliance, those old enemies
Continue readingThings Are Good: Caring People Have More Sex
It turns out that nice guys do get the girl (but not these nice guys), and nice girls too! Altruism has been linked to more sexual partners and better relationships. There is a growing body of research that connects people who are emphatic are good partners to have in life.
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: A few thoughts on empathy in human beings, and other living creatures
Empathy is natural in human beings, as Jeremy Rifkin has pointed out – and with strong backing by recent scientific findings. Some human beings have more and some less; and some are sociopaths – roughly 1% (and usually, the ones who gravitate to positions of wealth and power, unsurprisingly) –
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Random Acts of Kindness
It goes by almost unrecognized, but for some, it is a special day that reflects the way we should all behave, to everyone, every day. It’s called Random Acts of Kindness Day, and it will be celebrated in Collingwood, on Friday, November 1. Council has contributed by making downtown parking
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Kurt Vonnegut’s one rule
Love this quote. (via MonkeyJoys) Alltop is a humor baby.
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Scouts Canada challenges Canadians to be kinder to one another (VIDEO)
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Scouts Canada says Canadians “could be kinder to one another”. Canada’s leading coed youth organization is challenging us to do a “simple act of kindness” to one another during Good Turn Week, April 13-21. And this press release: OTTAWA, April 8, 2013 – Canadians live up to their international
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: Raj Rescues Folks in Rollover
Earlier today Raj Sherman help rescue three people who had rolled off the road on Highway 2 (Calgary Herald). This is one of the reasons why I really like Raj Sherman as a human being: this selfless, service above self attitude he has, where he was on a schedule to be at
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