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Title: Celebrating World Sparrow Day 2024: Embracing Humanity and Harmony Slide 1: Introduction Welcome to our presentation celebrating World Sparrow Day 2024! Today, we honor the small yet significant beings that remind us of the virtues and qualities we cherish as humans. Slide 2: The Sparrows: Symbols of Beauty and Humanity Sparrows, those small, beautiful birds, have captured our hearts with their charm. Unfortunately, they have become increasingly rare, mirroring the fading visibility of essential human virtues in our society. Slide 3: The Call to Action Let's take a moment to reflect on the virtues the sparrows represent and how we can bring them back into prominence in our lives. Slide 4: Human Virtues Reflected in Sparrows Humane Existence: Like sparrows, let's embrace kindness and compassion in our interactions. Love, Caring & Sharing: Just as sparrows share food and care for one another, let's foster a culture of empathy and inclusivity. Peaceful Co-existence: Sparrows live harmoniously; let's strive for peaceful co-existence with all beings. Universal Brotherhood: Embracing the spirit of brotherhood, let's unite for the greater good of humanity. Truth, Honesty & Respect: Like the integrity of sparrows, let's uphold truth, honesty, and respect in all our dealings. Slide 5: World Sparrow Day 2024 Today, on World Sparrow Day, let's pledge to revive these virtues in our lives and communities. Together, we can create a world where humanity and harmony flourish, just like the chirping of sparrows in a serene morning. Slide 6: Conclusion As we celebrate World Sparrow Day 2024, let's remember the lessons these tiny birds teach us about living in harmony and embracing our shared humanity. Thank you for joining us in this celebration! Slide 7: "A Very Happy World Sparrow Day 2024" Let's spread the message of love, compassion, and unity on this special day dedicated to our feathered friends. Slide 8: Thank You! Any questions or thoughts? Let's discuss how we can continue to embody the spirit of World Sparrow Day beyond this presentation.

Excited to say that I read of number of very optimistic takes this Earth Day from highly educated, highly committed individuals working to solve our current climate related crisis. While the general tone on the news cycle is doom & gloom (and there are a lot of staggering data points to support a not so nice potential view of our communal future); it's important to think about where we've come from and just how much we've accomplished since the environmental movement began. So in that same vein here are some thoughts around supporting Regenerative Organic Certified products in market as a simple and incremental step on our path to an overall global solution to climate change...We can do this! https://lnkd.in/gVP_ZwT9

Closing one chapter to open another is a courageous journey. Moving on from the past can be challenging, but it's the key to unlocking a brighter future. Celebrate the lessons learned, let go of what no longer serves you, and step confidently into the next chapter of your life. #MovingOn #BrighterDaysAhead Photo by Afif Ramdhasuma: https://lnkd.in/dAGT2rgK

Happy #EarthDay! Here are some interesting pieces of trivia about our planet from the updated Brave Search!

In Blog #131 we share how time in nature can be a beautiful and soothing Act of Kindness.

Strategy is a universal language. Successful impact requires strategy. Which do you believe is MORE often true: 1) Churches have a strategic vision plan for impacting their community 2) Churches have outreach presence without an outreach strategy Our training with pastors and church leaders starts with vision & strategy. Helping them develop a vision for impacting their community and then developing an implementation strategy that equips church members to live out the vision, day-to-day, in the community. #LoveServes #loveyourneighbor #VisionWorkshop

Caela’s Story 26 #fiction #serial #caela   First, find food. There is water running in the narrowing/widening stream she can hear and smell. Water is water, pure without pollutants. Minerals are minerals. This planet seems to be pretty much of the same kinds as Earth. We have lived here all these years unpoisoned. Caela’s people had dug wells to make use of the water in underground springs. They had devised irrigation for their plants. They had lived all their lives with, more and more as part of, this land, this sky. After food, find a place to sleep of soft mosses, grasses, loam, dry enough, secured enough from rain and other detriments to sleep. Simple survival, basic building blocks of communication life to life in those simple, basic demands of biology. Caela stopped walking; sat in the curve of an old gnarled tree. Listening intently, reaching out from a primal place in her mind into the teeming, pulsing life surrounding her, she drew it in with her breath. Very still beyond rhythmic breathing, she sat for a small arc of eternity. Heightened awareness to all sensory data without intrusion of conscious thought, Caela was finding her rhythm, the tune, the music of forest life with which she could improvise, sit in, sing along. When he was till quite small, Larik had found and brought to her a sharp, jagged rock of clear, hard crystal. Over time she had found it to be a useful tool for digging, cutting, grinding herbs, even focusing sunlight to start tinder burning. She kept it in a pouch tied to the woven belt around her waist (a more recent gift, from Maea now settled into Grandmother Maris’s legacy). Had she not this fortuitous, familiar tool she no doubt would have found what she needed, made plans around what she found, for foraging. No doubt her crystal ally had originated in another part of this forest. Thus Caela amused herself with thoughts on the vagaries of fortune while digging a fire pit, arranging stones, tinder, various widths of fallen branches which she broke down to appropriate size. Making preparation, not far from the stream. Moving through these purposeful actions as if in meditative ritual, Caela felt herself getting caught up in a quietly graceful dance, each movement blurring into the next. Bright sun star shining into rippling water, trees standing their ground as branches play with breeze, rustling scratching chirping squeaking creatures playing out their destinies, dramas, simple cycles of life. Caela discovering while creating her way in, feeling satisfaction in this expression of her consciousness, carrying water on broad leaves from stream to pit site, becoming hunter-gatherer natural human being.

Discover your purpose by embracing the joy and passion already within you. More about finding your purpose in this week's blog. Link here: linktr.ee/walthampton #discoveryourpurpose #livefully #passionandpurpose

Oh my gosh! What a great #Fridayafternoon #ShadesofLife conversation with Jerry Nagel, Tenneson Woolf and myself. It's so rich, I'm listening to it again as I get it posted and continue my workday. Layers and snippets. Layers of #visibleinvisible and everything in between. The #explicitimplicit. #Tangibleintangible. #Linearnonlinear. #Structurerelationship. #Languagematters. #Hostingspaces, #hostingpeople. The power of naming. The role of #fear and #uncertainty. The "outside" world encroaching on company spaces/time and what to do about that. We three are #hungryforconnection and these conversations. And we know so many more people who are also hungry for this - particularly because sometimes the desires that we hold - for #peace, #connection, #community, #respect, #love - can feel unreachable. So much here.... take a listen. #wearetheoneswevebeenwaitingfor #hopiprophecy https://lnkd.in/ePpREkDq

That white building in the picture only opens once a year. Want to know why? This is the front of my house yesterday. That rainbow! And under it is a little white capela; or chapel. It has a saint dedicated to it, and on that saints day, around Easter, a procession stops, prays, and then the procession continues on their journey. A lovely older lady from the local community is responsible for caring for the capella. You always know that the day is approaching as she appears. The doors are open to remove the subtle smell of mould, she then gets it painted, and cleans off the saint and the little alter. Last year her little grandson of about 3 years old was perched on the stairs, at times going inside to help her. The subtle differences of cultures around the world have always inspired me. Stepping out of our daily routines and into the world of others broadens our perspective. Being exposed to diverse people and environments challenges our entrenched beliefs. And opens our eyes to different ways of doing things. In a world where the complexity of our challenges is ever-increasing, we desperately need diverse thinking. By stepping out of our comfort zones and embracing different viewpoints, we not only challenge our own assumptions but also pave the way for innovative solutions. I truly believe - the key to progress lies in our willingness to be curious and to seek out new experiences. The result? We foster a culture of collaboration and creativity that is essential for tackling the most significant issues of our time. #ReturnOnHumanity #ROH #diversity #FutureOfWork #BroadenHorizons #behaviourchange