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#Writespiration 71 The Thing That Got Cut Down #1000speak

#Writespiration 71 The Thing That Got Cut Down #1000speak

This week, this post is both a challenge and part of the upcoming #1000speak day on the 20th December. #1000speak, if you haven’t heard of it is a movement trying to get 1000 people to write about compassion or related topics on one day (20th) and each month the theme is different, with compassion repeating every few months. I’ve missed a few months so thought it was time I joined in again.

To the

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Can we resolve conflict without violence? #1000Speak - 5 years on

Can we resolve conflict without violence? #1000Speak – 5 years on

1000 Voices Speak for Compassion is five years old.

In the early days of January 2015, as millions of people around the world reeled in shock after Islamist terrorists burst into offices in Paris and murdered journalists at the Charlie Hebdo magazine, another group of Islamist terrorists, Boko Haram, swept through towns and villages in northeast Nigeria massacring anyone who couldn’t run…

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Cyberbullying Gone The Corporate World? #1000Speak

Cyberbullying Gone The Corporate World? #1000Speak

As per a social media report published on CNBC for the first time two big corporate Starbucks and DC Comicshave become the victim of cyberbullying. Big corporate have started feeling that their presence is important in social media is as important as in the real world. There have been instances that a small query or complaint raised on a social media platform like Twitter has gone viral by the…

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How Can a Murderer Change?

How Can a Murderer Change?

Did anyone care to find out why he was “scary” and try to determine a way to change that?   In the aftermath of the most recent school shooting in the USA, blogger Hasty Words asked this question. It got me thinking – can we reach out to others in pain and with our love and compassion steer them away from a life of destruction? Can we change them? At seventeen, I had a burning desire to help…

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The Rose Hotel

Before I even started grade school, I spent most of my nights at a homeless shelter. I grew up with a dreamer. My father saw opportunity no matter where he looked, and his kindness knew no limits. He was a jack-of-all-trades kind of guy, a contractor by day, preacher by night/weekend, and a philanthropist by heart.  To me, he hung the moon. Try and convince me otherwise. We never had much money,…

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Is Compassion Natural or Nurtured? a #1000Speak post

Is Compassion Natural or Nurtured? a #1000Speak post

I am dressing my baby after her vaccinations, feeling relieved we got through it without tears. She looks around, eyes wide, paying attention to the movements in the room. A mother lays her baby on the changing mat next to ours. The baby is wailing loudly. My baby turns her head to look at him. She starts crying too.   We are in the changing rooms after a parent and toddler swim session. Nearby,…

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When Someone You Love is Suffering - Be Real

When Someone You Love is Suffering – Be Real

A person I love works hard, against difficult odds, to achieve a goal. It doesn’t happen. This person feels disappointment. I feel it too, and regret: perhaps if I’d followed up on an idea I had months ago the odds could have been reduced, this sadness prevented. I allowed others to dissuade me, wasn’t sure. I’m still not sure, and feel churned up, sad. Another friend tells me there’s no point in…

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The Courage to Have Compassion - a #1000Speak post

The Courage to Have Compassion – a #1000Speak post

During World War 1, a man armed only with a revolver and stick destroyed a German machine gun and its killed its crew. When attempting to take out a second machine gun he was killed. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. That’s courage, the kind of courage that wins medals, and is remembered. Yet, it also takes courage to say no, to be a conscientious objector. The men who refused to…

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