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My sister wanted to celebrate her birthday painting ceramics with her friends, but after realizing that it might be too expensive for everyone, I came up with an idea. I told her to ask her friends what they wanted to paint, and over the course of two weeks, I made the items they wanted out of air-dry clay. I went and bought more paint brushes, just to make sure they had enough to share. Her friends came over to our house and got to sit, talk, and laugh together while painting. I heard some of her friends say that it was their first time painting clay. At the end of…
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Our family of four just came back from our year-end trip from Northern California to four national parks in Southern California and Arizona. We spent six nights in four hotels during the seven-day trip. We were very grateful to hotel staff who still worked very hard during the holiday season. What we did was leaving tips along with a hand-written thank you note in the hotel room when we checked out. In addition, I made sure that we also tipped the hotel staff who made continental breakfast for us. On our last day of the trip, when we were getting our car’s tank filled up with gas, it occurred to…
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Featured Good Karma Music Story: It feels good to give
The final featured story this year is “It feels good to give,” from Anonymous in Bridgewater, USA, where our storyteller lends a snowblower to neighbors after a snowfall. “During the snowstorm in February, we had about two feet of snow over one night. We have a powerful snow blower and it only took us forty minutes to clean our driveway. After we were done, we let three neighbors use our snow blower to clean their driveway. It feels good to help someone.” Tell us your act of kindness at Good Karma Music and get to choose a complimentary music album.
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Featured Good Karma Music Story from K L
This week’s story is “Cards of Kindness” by K L from London, who worked with their kids to make personalized Christmas cards to cheer others up. “. . . My kids created Christmas cards and gave gifts to the mail carriers, who throughout this whole pandemic have been serving the community, delivering packages and parcels while we stay safe at home. The kids were excited to give the gifts and cards. The recipients were touched by the gesture, and said what made them really happy was the personalised cards from the kids. . . . We then decided to make more Christmas cards with good well-wishes and sent them to…
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Facing financing crisis, spiritual crisis. I had no hope. I wish to go to the Pure Land as soon as possible. But still an aged mother needs to be taken care of…. Very struggle on life.
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Featured Good Karma Music Story from Anhnhat
This week’s story comes from Anhnhat who is translating a repentance text into English so that the kids in the youth group can understand. “I am a leader in the Vietnamese Buddhist Youth Association. Every week, we chant our repentance in the Vietnamese language. The American-born kids have a hard time understanding the repentance because it is not in English. I have combined many partial translations of our repentance into one translation and also translated some parts of it. So far, I have finished about 80%. I will finish the rest very soon.” Tell us your act of kindness at Good Karma Music and get to choose a complimentary music…
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I am a leader in the Vietnamese Buddhist Youth Association. Every week, we chant our repentance in Vietnamese language. The American born kids have a hard time to understand the repentance because it is not in Ebglish. I have combined many partial translations of our repentance into 1 translation and also translated some parts of it. So far, I have finished about 80%. I will finish the rest very soon.
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Featured Good Karma Music Story from Susan
This week’s story comes from Susan in Hercules, USA, who taught her first grade students how to be mindful of their behavior. “I teach first graders at a public elementary school. . . Sometimes, they can’t stop talking. To help them, I taught them to ‘Sit like a bell.’ Bells do not talk. So they learn to sit and listen (and take turns to talk). At recess, when lining up, they learn to ‘Stand like a tree,’ so no one is swinging their lunch bags and hitting anyone. When they walk down to the lunchroom, they learn to ‘Walk like the wind’ and not run for they might fall. Once…
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I teach at a public elementary school. Since the pandemic, our school focus has been on socio-emotional learning . To facilitate this, my class of first graders have Sharing on Fridays. Each child can bring an item of their choice and tell the class what it is, how they get it and answer questions from their classmates. Sometimes, they can’t stop talking. To help them, I taught them to “Sit like a bell”. Bells do not talk. So they learn to sit and listen (and take turns to talk). At recess, when lining up, they learn to “Stand like a tree”, so noone is swinging their lunch bags and hitting…
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Featured Good Karma Music Story from Connie
This week’s featured story comes from Connie N. in Singapore, who had conversations with fellow patients at the hospital before and after her surgery, and found it helped calm herself and others down from being worried. “When I was in the hospital for my open heart surgery, before and after the surgery, I tried to speak to other patients next to me because they looked worried. We encouraged each other at the same time and after I spoke to them, I felt they were more relieved and for myself, I felt that the pain was not so painful anymore.” Tell us your act of kindness at Good Karma Music and…