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06/15/2021

WE'RE MOVING TO A NEW FB PAGE!

As The Compassion Museum moves into a new season of growth, some of our current platforms must change and grow with us. With that comes a new page where we can connect. We’ll be sharing fresh, new ideas and putting together more interactive events in the community.

As we close this page, we would like to extend a HUGE THANK YOU to our friends and followers who have joined us in this journey and interacted with us online and in person. We also want to thank everyone who sent messages of encouragement and support to elders who were isolated during the pandemic. Together, we sent over 900 cards!

We’ve learned so much from you and look forward to building The Compassion Museum with you. The new page will create a platform where you can share your IDEAS, use your VOICE and get INVOLVED. Of course, you are most welcome to come and hang out.

To stay in the loop, we invite you to follow our new page over at:
https://www.facebook.com/compassionmuseum

Please share with your friends, your family, your coworkers, as we continue to grow into something we can ALL be a part of together.

See you over there!
TCM

06/15/2021

WE'RE MOVING TO A NEW FB PAGE!
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As The Compassion Museum moves into a new season of growth, some of our current platforms must change and grow with us. With that comes a new page where we can connect. We’ll be sharing fresh, new ideas and putting together more interactive events in the community.
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As we close this page, we would like to extend a HUGE THANK YOU to our friends and followers who have joined us in this journey and interacted with us online and in person. We also want to thank everyone who sent messages of encouragement and support to elders who were isolated during the pandemic. Together, we sent over 900 cards!
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We’ve learned so much from you and look forward to building The Compassion Museum with you. The new page will create a platform where you can share your IDEAS, use your VOICE and get INVOLVED. (Of course, you are most welcome to come and simply hang out.)
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We invite you to follow and share our new page over at:
https://www.facebook.com/compassionmuseum
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See you over there!

05/18/2021

What activities, realizations, or new ways of doing things will you (try to) keep from this past year?

Are there things that have come from the change, loss, adaptations and innovations, trauma, and need to come together in 2020?

Thanks to The Art of Noticing for sharing this question from Jenna Sherry.

Ideas, inspiration, and prompts for creativity, work, and staying human. From the author of The Art of Noticing (Knopf). http://robwalker.net/noticing/

05/13/2021

Injured and neglected, we wither and deteriorate. Nourished and cared for, we find our resiliency, heal and offer hope for others. Or so it happened for Ethan.

Ethan was abandoned in the parking lot of the Kentucky Humane Society on Jan. 29.

05/06/2021

Generosity-based leadership? EngageSmart’s CEO says generosity plays a central role in good business practices.

“Many stereotypes about business ignore the concept of generosity, as many believe all companies and their leaders are exclusively motivated by profit. This has not been my experience, and I can attest that, ironically, givers yield far more favorable results than takers. It is the givers who will succeed over the long term.”

Givers yield far more favorable results than takers.

03/23/2021

Anita White has “drawn through” many happy and difficult times in her life. She was kind enough to talk to TCM more about this process for our series on Compassionate Art. Check out our blog this week to learn more.

Drawing is just this really simple humble act of paying attention and honoring who people are.

03/20/2021

Here are some ways to show solidarity, support, and care for our AAPI neighbors and friends in the face of surging violence toward the AAPI community.

From reporting hate incidents to donating to volunteering

02/25/2021

"Many of those same health-care workers spent last year sticking swabs up the noses of people who thought they might have covid-19. The work was risky. The patients were scared. There was never relief, just limbo. The arrival of The Shot has transformed the grim pop-up clinics of the pandemic into gratitude factories — reassembly lines where Americans could begin to put back together their busted psyches."

The happiest place in medicine is a covid vaccination clinic.

02/23/2021

It's often quite difficult to feel connection with others outside our immediate "cirlce" (especially during this pandemic). Learn a simple way to cultivate more connection in this week's blog from TCM.

Why do we care when someone we know gets hit by tragedy, but not when it happens to strangers? Can we develop our capacity to care beyond our inner circle? Research says yes. Here are two things that can help.

02/19/2021

“Mattress Mack,” who helped so many folks after Hurricane Harvey is back helping Texans during the current power outage crisis.

Local Houston legend Jim McIngvale is lending a hand to families in desperate need of shelter from the cold by transforming one of his furniture shops into a...

02/18/2021

As we spend more time indoors on cold days, The Bell Museum showcases its art and helps us connect with and contemplate the rich biodiversity of life.

From the canvas to the textbook—connections between science and art are everywhere. In this new series, we examine these connections and explore the Bell Mus...

02/08/2021

Compassionate wisdom from Parker Palmer.

Our “winters” come in many forms. Where I live, we have snow banks three feet high and subzero temps every night. In the U.S. and around the world, we’re doing our best to “winter thru” the twin threats of COVID-19 and deadly far-right politics. Literally and metaphorically, winter is on my mind.

That’s why I spent some time over the weekend with this 1995 meditation on winter. The winters of our lives are hard teachers. But their lessons can be life-giving—if we face into the season and ask the right questions as we go.

Here are a few questions drawn from the meditation that I’ve been asking myself:

• In the midst of my inner and outer struggles to survive hard weather, am I honoring my need for rest when I can get it?

• As I find myself repulsed by the stone-cold ugliness of far-right politics, do I appreciate the beauty that’s always to be found in our shared humanity?

• What am I doing to protect myself and others against the numbing effects of bad weather and coldhearted politics, and to support leaders who want to do the humane thing?

• As I witness against the deadly chill of white supremacy, am I doing everything I can to evoke “the better angels of our nature” in myself and others?

Life never stops moving in seasonal cycles, and winter is only one of the four seasons. I want to winter thru in a way that helps prepare the ground for the new growth of spring, the abundance of summer, and autumn’s reseeding of life on earth.

P.S. An earlier form of this meditation is found in my book “Let Your Life Speak,” along with meditations on the other three seasons. The original essays were commissioned by the Fetzer Institute in 1995. You can download all four of them free at https://tinyurl.com/yycuydzp.