Good News Friday: Humbugs, a surprise party and beautiful people everywhere

On Good News Friday we build into our community some of the happy, playful joie d'vivre of the villagers of Ordinary. Here are my fave finds this week. I invite you to share some good news or a feel good link of your own in the comments section below.

Little Humbugs, protectors of nature

© Wildwood Media

Little Humbugs, created by children's book author and illustrator Marghanita Hughes, are the Protectors of Nature. Take a whirl around this gorgeous site and, if you have children in your life, read them one of the stories or print off one of the games and spend some quality time together.

You're invited to Christina's surprise party!

Happy birthday, Christina!

Today is Christina's birthday, and she's invited us all to her virtual party. What she doesn't know is that some of her cyber friends are planning a surprise. From time to time, Christina lists simple things she loves. Se'lah of Necessary Room asks us to do a post of our own about the simple things we love and pop over to Christina's page and leave her a link twith a happy birthday wish.

Now, I've never met any of these women, and only learned of Christina's blog yesterday, but when people are doing nice things to celebrate other people, that's good news, don't you think?


Seeing the beauty in ourselves and ordinary people everywhere

Michelle O'Neil of Full Soul Ahead posted this video recently, a trailer of sorts for author Karen Walrond's forthcoming book, The Beauty of Different, which has all the promise of being just the celebration of human uniqueness and beauty we would expect in the world of Ordinary. If you're like me, you'll be grinning ear to ear, as my momma likes to say, after spending two minutes watching this one. Thanks for introducing Walrond to us, Michelle!



What are you feeling good about today? Share it here!

Spread some cheer! If something struck your fancy this week, and you'd like to share, please tell us about it in the comments section, along with a link. If the link is to one of your blog posts, all the better. Do keep it upbeat, family friendly and in the spirit of building a world more like that of the Village of Ordinary. What are you feeling good about today? Share it below, won't you?

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None of the web sites featured today solicited promotion, nor do I receive anything for mentioning them here, other than the pleasure of knowing about some folks who are working hard to make the world a little more like Ordinary.

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We make peace in a million small ways every day.

All text and images, unless otherwise noted, copyright L. Kathryn Grace. All rights reserved.

Help build a bridge of love to celebrate the birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Wikipedia

Tuesday, July 6, is the Dalai Lama's seventy-fifth birthday. To celebrate, Se'Lah of Necessary Room is building a bridge of love, and she needs our help. On Tuesday, she calls on us to perform one random act of kindness. Here, she explains what motivated her:

The depth of suffering endured by people all around the world simply breaks my heart. It is of such an unimaginable proportion that at times, I can literally feel their pain.

She quotes the prayer of her inspiration, His Holiness the Dalai Lama himself:

May I become at all times
Both now and for ever
A protector for the helpless,
A guide for the lost ones,
A ship for those to cross oceans,
And a bridge to cross rivers,
A sanctuary for those in danger,
A lamp for those in darkness,
A refuge for those who need shelter,
A servant to all in need.

Dalai Lama

If you are in need today, may you receive such succor.

Can you help build the bridge of love?

Join the celebration! Do a random act of kindness and post it somewhere--on your own blog, on Se'lah's, in the comments below, on Twitter (the hashtag is #BridgeofLove), wherever you network. Sure, it's only one act of kindness on one day, but imagine if millions do just one that day. What good might follow?

If you are the recipient of a random of act of kindness on July 6, please tell about it one way or another, and come back here and let me know too, if you would be so kind. Better still, tell His Holiness about it and wish him a happy birthday.

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We make peace in a million small ways every day.

All text and images, unless otherwise noted, copyright L. Kathryn Grace. All rights reserved.