by Joey Crotty | Apr 24, 2015 | Earth Week, For Others, For Self, For the Earth, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play
A message from Earth Day of a possible future: “It is on this day, this remarkable day, we give thanks to our ancestors. In the darkest time of our species’ history they faced a profound challenge. They faced themselves. It is the very fact that we are here,...
by Joey Crotty | Apr 21, 2015 | Earth Week, For Self, For the Earth, Ways to Play
Announcing the “Love This Place! Story Mapping Challenge” for Serve the Earth Week! In celebration of the Earth and our connection to all life, we invite you to play with us starting now and through the end of Earth Week in the Compassion Games “Love This...
by Joey Crotty | Apr 18, 2015 | Compassion Reports, Earth Week, Faith and Interfaith, For Others, For Self, For the Earth, Stories of Compassion
As we’re getting ready for the inaugural Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week coopetition, from April 18 through April 26, we are excited to introduce some of the “players” that will be participating. This is an extremely diverse group including teams from...
by Joey Crotty | Apr 16, 2015 | Cities - Mayors, Compassion Reports, Earth Week, Faith and Interfaith, For Others, For Self, For the Earth, Harmony Week, Stories of Compassion
In the early sixties, in the thick of the Civil Rights movement, at the Voters Rights office in Alabama, Andrew Young was about to step outside into the parking lot to meet members of the Ku Klux Klan. Mr. Young, appointed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to head the...
by Joey Crotty | Apr 1, 2015 | Earth Week, For Others, For Self, For the Earth, Stories of Compassion
Collaboratively Written by Leadership Team Member Lesa R. Walker, MD, MPH& Compassion Games Storyteller Joey Crotty Are you a “Biophiliac”? If you are reading this and happen to be human, you probably are. The Compassion Games Love This Place! Serve...
by Joey Crotty | Jan 19, 2015 | Faith and Interfaith, For Others, For Self, For the Earth, Harmony Week, Sun Up Our Sanctuaries, Ways to Play
A Rallying Call for World Interfaith Harmony It’s well-known that for untold eons, human beings have fought each other in the name of their God or gods. But there is more to this story… As historian and TED Prize Winner Karen Armstrong points out, wars are and have...
by Joey Crotty | Jan 12, 2015 | Business, Cities - Mayors, Earth Week, Education - Schools, Faith and Interfaith, For Others, For Self, Harmony Week, Ways to Play, Youth
Dear Friends and Allies of Compassion, The world is stirring. Every now and then an event occurs that shocks us, and with it appears an opening for something new to emerge. Right now, we are at such a moment. The 3.7 million people who marched in the streets of France...
by Joey Crotty | Nov 25, 2014 | Faith and Interfaith, Leagues, Partners, Sun Up Our Sanctuaries, Ways to Play
“In our broken world it is easy to become overwhelmed with grief and despair culminating in our inability to move forward. Each of us has been given a purpose in life, a reason for being. Each of us carries within a caring heart and a mind filled with ideas. The...
by Joey Crotty | Nov 18, 2014 | For Others, For Self, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play
November 18th -December 7th Fly a kite today for Peace! Kites for Peace was inspired by the 13,000 kites that children of Gaza flew in 2011 to break a Guiness World Record of simultaneous kite flying. What started out as a creative response to the death of children...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 27, 2014 | For Self, Unity Games, Ways to Play
Reverend Dr. Peggy Price knows a lot about Compassion. Not just because she is a Reverend Emeritus of the Southern California Seal Beach Center for Spiritual Living, or because she’s deeply involved in her city of Huntington Beach, so much in fact that she has a...
