Sage In Toyland: Slinky CEO cares about her employees
January 28, 1996, theWashington Post MagazineI had to call Betty. I hadn’t talked to her in a while. I had met Betty a few years ago when I toured her factory in Hollidaysburg, Pa., a blip of a town...
View ArticleThe Mist on the Lake is Like Our Consciousness
I am meditating on our waterfront patio. A chilly summer’s dawn has created a thick mist moving swiftly over the warm lake. It seems to be frantically searching the surface. Then, a swath of golden...
View ArticleAll the Good Things About You
He was in the first third grade class I taught at Saint Mary's School in Morris, Minn. All 34 of my students were dear to me, but Mark Eklund was one in a million. He had that happy-to-be-alive...
View ArticleA Message For Christmas: Find the Star Within
With so many things to do in the holiday season, it is difficult to stay in the moment, to take time to really BE with the people around you, rather than thinking ahead or comparing it to the past....
View ArticleNow is the Moment of Power
An E-Mail ConversationJune 24, 1999 Good Morning Dave,Happy Birthday!A thought for today:We heal each other all the time, and don't even realize that we're doing it. Healing comes out of a very simple...
View ArticleIn a December "Touched by an Angel"
In a December "Touched by an Angel, the managing editor of a daily newspaper was in the habit of publishing a steady diet of scandal, blood, and horror on the morning’s front page. She had become so...
View ArticleAll is in Divine Order
Eloise Vincent founded SOFTLY International-- Securing Our Future Today Loving Youth -- to supply medical care, clothing and beds to families living in extreme poverty in Costa Rica and Honduras. Until...
View ArticleHow I Created The Good News Network While Caring for Three Small Children
'What I have Done, You Can do Also!'A successful career woman just wrote to me saying she, “LOVED, LOVED, LOVED my Web Site.” But more than the Web Site alone, she told me she was inspired by ME......
View ArticleDeafblind Girl Jumps Out of Plane to Raise Money for Those Less Fortunate
In an autumnal morning sky, Nicola Henderson, 17, jumped out of an airplane at 10,000 ft. and free fell at over 120 miles per hour for five thousand feet, harnessed to a professional parachute...
View ArticleI've been conned... That's the good news!
Robert deVincenzo, the great Argentine golfer, once won a tournament with a large sum of money as the purse.A woman approached him, asking for money, saying her child was seriously ill, near death, and...
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