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Help plant a garden of compassion at Rainier Vista Boys & Girls Club

by Joey Crotty | Oct 26, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, Uncategorized, Ways to Play, Youth

By Jon Ramer The Rainier Vista Boys and Girls Club needs you. Dedicated school chef Patrice Freeman shops the sales to feed her hungry troupe, but she has a dream, to feed her boys and girls with fresh fruit and vegetables from a bountiful school garden. She has the space, and she’s looking for donations of soil and the materials to create eight to 10 large planters for the garden and fill them with rich planting soil for the 2013 spring and summer. The club is budget challenged....

He lived compassion at life’s end

by Joey Crotty | Oct 23, 2012 | Stories of Compassion

By Alanna Gunne Lying in his bed, he listened to the sounds of life. He could smell the pot roast cooking in the kitchen and hear his housemates moving through the halls. A movie was playing on his VCR and he was comfortable. He had not envisioned his life this way. He loved the beach and the sunshine. He loved his work and his many friends knew him as a passionate foodie. Assisted by his pain medications, he often dreamed of those days. In a way it was a gift because he could live in...

Volunteers nurture compassion throughout community

by Joey Crotty | Oct 22, 2012 | Education - Schools, Partners, Stories of Compassion, United Way, Ways to Play

Submitted by Kizzie Funkhouser We are fellow volunteers that serve those in need, Farmers of hope, we’re planting the seeds – Weeding out obstacles when lives’ pathways are blocked. Standing together, our diverse strands, woven to stalks Of goodwill and compassion we nurture, Strong – rooted in belief that every life matters That dignity and respect have no boundaries or status. We are young, we are old, yet we are the same Our vision not of the chore, we see...

brother’s compassion for his sisters is a life lesson

by Joey Crotty | Oct 21, 2012 | Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play

By Lee Campbell There was a man named Joe Earl. He was born in 1911 in a small town near the Mississippi River. His father died of an unspecified illness when he was a toddler. His mother, Mollie Bodi, remarried and had two daughters, Ida Mae and Delores. Mollie’s second husband died in an accident in a Missouri mine. She married a third time to a man whose last name was Dockins and had four more daughters. In approximately 1925, she died while giving birth to a baby boy. After her death, Mr....

Smarter & more compassionate schools? Yes we can!

by Joey Crotty | Oct 16, 2012 | Compassionate Seattle, Education - Schools, Leagues, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play, WhatsGood206, Youth

Submitted by What’s Good 206 Build more compassionate schools by combining students of different ages in the classroom, and fully integrating schools, says a 17-year-old high school senior who has written a book advocating overhaul of the educational system. In this video produced by What’s Good 206, Nikhil Goyal also advises educators to start treating students respectfully and invite them into the conversation about their education. Directed by AUSTIN WILLIAMS Hosted by STARLA...

Operation Compassion: How to radically change the story

by Joey Crotty | Oct 15, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play, WhatsGood206, Youth

Submitted by What’s Good 206 It was a chance encounter with a homeless man that that led University of Washington student Daniel Nguyen to start Operation Compassion last year. It began when an apparently homeless man, a regular Daniel had seen for weeks, boarded his bus and asked him for spare change. Like many of us, Daniel’s first response was, “I don’t have any.” But it didn’t end there, and what Daniel Nguyen found out about Reggie, the man on the bus,...

10 years later workshop continues as ongoing support group for care providers

by Joey Crotty | Oct 15, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play, Wisdom at Work

By Joel and Michelle Levey Some years ago, we were invited to offer a workshop on meditation and medicine for the faculty of University of Washington Medical School. Nearly 70 physicians attended and stayed for the whole five-hour workshop. We were so touched by their sincerity and wish to learn more about profoundly practical methods drawn from the contemplative sciences that we began to host a monthly “Meditation and Medicine Circle” for physicians, nurses, and other health caring...

Terry’s story: compassion on Seattle’s streets

by Joey Crotty | Oct 12, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play

By Amber Joy Terry was not a complainer. He slept outside, did odd jobs for several Fremont businesses and was always willing to help with anything. He came into ROAR, a day center for homeless men, almost daily, for a sack lunch. He would ask if he could do anything for us. He kept his hair short, getting it shaved off when he could… so much easier to keep clean, always a problem on the streets, this business of keeping clean. When I realized that I could cut hair for our clients I...

What’s good? Volunteers in record numbers show compassion

by Joey Crotty | Oct 9, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, United Way, Ways to Play, WhatsGood206

Submitted by What’s Good ‘206’? Some painted walls, others cleaned a preschool inside and out. Others pulled yard cleanup duty. All told, there were more than 12,000 of them — people who came out on Sept. 21, United Way of King County’s biggest ever Day of Caring and the launch of the Compassion Games. Take a look by the numbers: Total volunteers: 12,122 Total companies represented: 138 Total projects completed: 448 Total hours of labor: 59,737 Total value of...

How a neighborhood rescued a dog

by Joey Crotty | Oct 7, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play

Once upon a time there was a dog named Raider… This is the story of how Raider’s needs were met by the actions of Circle Drive, a compassionate neighborhood in Lake Forest Park, as told in the emails that circulated via our Resource Line: Please help find this missing dog! Lost about 4:30 PM Saturday. He’s a 3-year-old male chocolate lab who answers to the name “Raider” or “Ray-Ray.” He has no collar or ID. A week later: Armand: Please put out to the neighborhood:...

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